Dan
danoak.dev
Dan
@danoak.dev
Senior Software Engineer justeattakeaway.com, ex: clearbank.co.uk ovo.com . I like C# and dotnet, paying video games and listening to loud music 🤘
SVG Animations are pretty neat
November 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by Dan
Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
www.youtube.com
May 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
the year is 2025, and for the first time in my life I actually have no computers in my house running Windows. The Unix life chose me it would seem :D
May 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
"I've suffered enough" lmao @dailydotdev.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Dan
why have 5 lines of powershell when you can have 40 lines of C#
May 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
This is sick
If you’re curious how I built a slingshot mechanic to control real-world lights with my Apple Vision Pro — Part 3 of the tutorial series is out now! 👉 youtu.be/vSOhotNFPuc

🖖 Detect a peace gesture using ARKit hand tracking
💥 Launch virtual projectiles with RealityKit physics
May 5, 2025 at 11:33 AM
New post!

dan-oak.dev/blog/my-jour...

This is a rundown of how I ended up in a senior engineer position starting way back to the beginning of how I got involved in programming in the first place
My Journey to Senior Software Engineer
A breakdown of how I ended up in the senior software engineer role
dan-oak.dev
May 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I left my house for 30 minutes this morning, when I come back, there is a workman for the neighbours on my drive 😤 asked him to move and he goes "I'll be out of your way in 5 minutes"! Am I crazy or is that insanely disrespectful 🤬
April 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Don't care how old you are, you are never too old to feel like aquaman when you control the flow of water from the shower with your arms
April 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Dan
London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥
April 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
This morning I am on a bus and the voice recording of the location announcements is very Bristolian and I overheard someone unironically say "amazing how they managed to get their Siri to sound like that".
April 15, 2025 at 6:49 AM
public static void main open parentheses string open square bracket close square bracket args close parentheses new line open curly bracket... You get the idea... Doesn't quite have a good enough ring to it for me 😂
Started using Windows `winkey+h` for voice dictation. It's actually really good, and is saving me a lot of typing! Does anyone else use it? I've also heard about Wispr Flow, which looks quite cool - but would rather stick to one built into Windows.
April 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Happy (UK) mother's day to all of you mothers out there! My wife celebrated her first mother's day being a mum this year 🥰
March 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I just published one of my first dev.to blogs :-) I got to namedrop a few of my favourite creators too!

@cassidoo.co @nickchapsas.com & @fireship.bsky.social

👉🏻 dev.to/danoak/what-...

Let me know what you think!

#devblog #devpost #programmer #seniorsoftwareengineer
What Makes a Great Senior Software Engineer?
In my previous blog, I mentioned that I think there are four main components to a great senior...
dev.to
March 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Call me a beta if you want but I tried really hard to main Linux (Pop!_OS) but to be honest there were just too many things that were blocking my usual workflow.

- Logitech G Hub isn't available
- Corsairs iCue
- Some games still don't quite work even despite @valvesoftware.com's proton
March 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
just republished a blog I wrote a long time ago about my experience attending an #IBM hackathon in 2016.

👉🏻 dan-oak.dev/blog/attendi...

I would like to make blogging for me a more consistent thing for me in the coming months / years.

#newpost #hackathon #devblog #dev #software
Attending my first Hackathon with Plymouth University
Attending my first Hackathon
dan-oak.dev
March 4, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Is 2025 the year where everyone is really trying to push people to pay for a licence to use what was originally free and open source software?

Specifically in the world of #dotnet and #csharp last year we had Moq and now FluentAssetions??! Who next??? Pls don't do it @jimmybogard.com 💕
January 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I just completed "Guard Gallivant" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/6
December 6, 2024 at 9:36 AM
👋 Hello Bluesky, #firstpost!

I am interested in 👇🏻
👨🏻‍💻 Software Engineers / Coding / Fun apps
🎮 Gaming
🐸 Memes
🤡 Dad jokes
📱 All kinds of tech

if that sounds like you drop a follow and I will follow back! Looking forward to connecting 😊
October 27, 2024 at 4:33 PM