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Mark Oliver

@markoliver.website

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UK based dotnet Software engineer by day (since 1996). Dad of 1 and husband by night. Trying to be a parent while being a nerd and geek. Check out my blog blog.markoliver.website & local tech meetup devdottalk.uk #Bournemouth #Dorset

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Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 11/01/2026

To finish off the festive season, I recreated the mini "lego" I received in real lego. The stocking is 1:1 scale stud for stud . The rest are 2x2 block for a 1x1 block scale.

5 lego recreations of the 5 mini lego creations. They are. Red and green Stocking, 3 verious red and white candy canes and a green boxy present in yellow ribbon.

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 17/07/2025

Dev South Coast meetup in Southampton has @rendle.dev telling us how to keep software dev simple

A meeting room full of people with Rendle showing a presentation

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 26/04/2025

I found this one yesterday in Bristol!

A sculpture of a red British postbox, but it is tied into a knot.

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Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 23/03/2025

A new set of paintings on my nails today courtesy of my wife. #HardAsNails

2 hands with painted nails of different colours and designs. Taken with the garden as a background.

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Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 08/02/2025

I made a QR code out of Lego for @devdottalk.uk recently, so I thought I would share how I did that: blog.markoliver.website/How-To-Make-...

A QR code made out of a black lego base plate, and lots of white lego pieces. It is sat on a table, at an angle. If scanned, it leads to the devdottalk.uk website.

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 19/01/2025

There are so many cool building techniques in this #Lego set. It is a very cool engineering puzzle. So many pieces though. Love it

The insides mechanism for the lego pacman set.

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 18/01/2025

I love it when I can combine lego with technology. @devdottalk.uk

A QR code made out of lego. A 32 stud square in black with lots of white lego arranged on top into a qr code for the website devdottalk.uk

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 05/12/2024

Now we are getting into the realm on inception!

A screenshot of the blog post showing the comments from bluesky about the comments on bluesky

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Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 04/12/2024

I have it working, now trying to make it work well: This is a test too!

A picture showing Bluesky comments for a tagged post shown on a blog post.

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 22/11/2024

Yes. I just tried it on my phone, and it works - which is on the same network.

ping results

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Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 22/11/2024

Chrome browser (latest). yes dev.hstacks.dev

Error on dev.hstacjks.dev

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Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 16/11/2024

Had a lovely morning exploring Ringwood with my wife. Not been there in ages, was a nice way to spend a morning. Also had the world's biggest donut.

A donut as big as my head.

Mark Oliver @markoliver.website · 13/11/2024

If you live near #bournemouth and work in the #software engineering space, then I invite you to come and talk at my new tech meetup. devdottalk.uk

A call for speakers for the dev dot talk meetup on the south coast of the UK