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      <a href="#experience">Experience</a>
      <a href="#blog">Blog</a>
      <a href="#music">Music</a>

      <a href="https://github.com/devsjc" class="social">GitHub</a>
      <a href="https://linkedin.com/in/solcotton/" class="social">LinkedIn</a>
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      <h1>home //</h1>

      <p>Hello! This is the website of me, Sol.</p>

      <p>I'm a software engineer based in the UK, primarily working as a Data Engineer but -
      as is usually the case with DEng - with that comes a lot of experience architecting and
      building entire backend systems, deployment infrastructure, developer tooling, CI/CD
      pipelines, and so on. Take a look at
      <a href="#experience">experience</a> for a more complete overview.</p>

      <p>I am a big advocate for not screwing up the planet on which we live, hence my current
      position in the renewable energy sector (and hence my exremely minimalist website!).
      I'm fascinated by physics; the very large, and the very small.</p>

      <p>I also enjoy coding in my spare time (imagine!) - I maintain a personal kubernetes server
      at home, on which I run a suite of open source services. I also write occasional blog posts about
      programming, which you can find in the <a href="#blog">blog</a> section of this site.
      (During lockdown I even wrote an android app so that my friends and I could play games
      remotely!)</p>

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    <section id="experience">

      <h1>work experience //</h1>

      <p>I'm going to put this section together soon, but for now, see my linkedin for my CV.</p>

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    <section id="blog">

      <h1>devsjc blogs //</h1>

      <p>I occasionally write about thoughts or experiences with programming. Below is a list of
      these posts. They come in two flavours, those being regular posts, and <em>chasers</em>, which are
      shorter posts primarily used as a reminder to myself about something I want to remember.</p>

      <p>Also, what with it being <em>current year</em>, I feel compelled to state that these posts
      are all written soley by <em>me</em>, and not some jumped up predictive text generator -
      otherwise really, what is the point in any of it?</p>

      <p><em><small>Posts are markdown docs, converted to html via marked.js; as such, I'm afraid
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	<li>
	  <time>2026-03-11</time>
	  <a href="#p20260311" data-src="static/blogs/20260311-make-ci.md">
            Creating local-first, platform agnostic CI pipelines with Make
	  </a>
	</li>
	<li>
          <time>2026-03-02</time>
	  <a href="#p20260302" data-src="static/blogs/20260302-rewrote-core.md">
	    Why I secretly rewrote my company's core infrastructure in my spare time
	  </a>
        <li>
          <time>2025-04-11</time>
          <a href="#p20250411" data-src="static/blogs/20250411-praising-uv.md">
            How uv helps me not hate Python
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <time>2024-11-29</time>
          <a href="#p20241129" data-src="static/blogs/20241129-chaser-bootable-win-usb.md">
            [chaser] How to create a bootable Windows USB from a Mac
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <time>2024-06-27</time>
          <a href="#p20240627" data-src="static/blogs/20240627-pyproject-guide.md">
            The complete guide to pyproject.toml
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <time>2024-04-06</time>
          <a href="#p20240406" data-src="static/blogs/20240406-chaser-vim-91-debian.md">
            [chaser] How to install Vim 9.1 on Debian
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <time>2024-04-05</time>
          <a href="#p20240405" data-src="static/blogs/20240405-vim-as-data-ide.md">
            Database connections in the terminal: using Vim as a data IDE
          </a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <time>2023-09-15</time>
          <a href="#p20230915" data-src="static/blogs/20230915-jb-to-vim.md">
            From JetBrains to Vim
          </a>
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    <section id="music">

      <h1>face the music //</h1>

      <p>At some point I'll put some links to my musical endeavours here! (Or maybe I'll chicken out
      of it!)</p>

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