Alex Hedley

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Design System Chat - September 2025

Join us for September 2025's Design System Chat to discuss Service Patterns. Hosted by the GOV.UK Design System.

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BSides Newcastle 2025

Such a cool badge from the sponsor Punk Security.

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Utility Kotlin

For the past 10+ years I've been building a Utility app to speed up day to day tasks. It started with a VB.NET version for encoding/decoding HTML to help with log files in Symantec Workflow. It grew with other functionality include SQL generation etc. From that I used the opportunity to build a macOS app to try out my Objective-C ability on a desktop app, instead of the iOS apps I'd been building. To make it more accessible I created a Web version then swapped to WPF and finally a Blazor one a few years after that. Having switched back to Java and now Kotlin dev, in the past couple of years, it seemed a good opportunity to try my hand at Kotlin Multiplatform. Having seen the power of WASM with Blazor it was a no brainer. Hopefully I can actually find the time to build multiple apps but for now I just wanted a web version with the first utility being a Duration parser.

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Design System Chat - July 2025

🗓️ Thursday, 16 July
🕰️ 13:00 - 15:00 BST
📍 Online
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-system-chat-july-2025-tickets-1469483959079

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.NET Meetup Newcastle - April 2025

Creating An AI Assistant To Run Meetups + Using Postgres SQL With .NET

📅 Tuesday, April 29, 2025 · 5:30 - 8pm GMT

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Install-a-thon - GOV.UK FrontEnd - April 2025

🗓️ Thursday, 24 April 🕰️ 13:00 - 15:00 BST
📍 Online
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/install-a-thon-govuk-frontend-tickets-1317545677589

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Design System Chat - February 2025

🗓️ Wednesday, 26 February 🕰️ 11:00 - 12:00 BST
📍 Online
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-system-chat-february-2025-tickets-1255768008919

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AWS User Group - North East - Meetup - Feb 2025

AWS Community re:Invent re:Cap

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Design System Chat - Jan 2025

🗓️ Wednesday, 29 January 🕰️ 11:00 - 12:00 BST
📍 Online
🔗 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/design-system-chat-january-2025-tickets-1214931235029

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.NET Meetup Newcastle - Nov 2024

Intro to Compilers with C# & Fun with Flags - 2 Talks

📅 Wednesday, November 27, 2024 · 5:30 - 8pm GMT

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