About Me

My name is Brent and I'm a full-time software developer from New Zealand. My preferred language is TypeScript but I also do a lot of backend development in my free time and use an assortment of other tech at work.

I own the PyTutorials channel on YouTube, which is where I provide video tutorials on intermediate Python topics.

Nitratine is a place for me to share projects developed by me and tutorials on topics that I'm interested in. Currently, this is the third version of the site which is hosted statically using GitHub Pages and built with a custom Python build script utilising Frozen-Flask.

A small portfolio of my work can be found here, which contains a collection of my favourite projects with a small description and links to pages relating to each project.

Basic site statistics and values relating to the things I do can be found at /data/.

Tech I Have Had Experience With

Frontend

React React
TypeScript TypeScript
JavaScript JavaScript
HTML HTML
CSS CSS
D3 D3
Leaflet Leaflet
Next.js Next.js
Vite Vite
React Query React Query
React Router React Router
Tailwind CSS Tailwind CSS
Material UI Material UI
PWA PWA

Backend

Python Python
Node.js Node.js
C# C#
.NET Core .NET Core (+ .NET Framework)
GraphQL GraphQL
Java Java
Flask Flask (Python)

Cloud

Azure Azure (App Service, Functions, SQL Server, IOT Hub and more)
AWS AWS
Terraform Terraform

Databases

SQLite SQLite
Microsoft SQL Server Microsoft SQL Server

Tools / Other

Git Git
Adobe PhotoShop Adobe PhotoShop
Linux Linux
Docker Docker
GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
Swagger Swagger (NSwag too)

Previous experience

Android SDK Android SDK
Gatsby Gatsby
Qt Qt (in Python)
Clojure Clojure
Haskell Haskell

Contact

If you have a question or issues with:

  • One of my YouTube videos → comment on the video
  • One of my blog posts → comment on the blog post
  • One of my projects on GitHub → raise an issue on the repository after searching existing issues

If you would like to contact me for something that isn't listed above, send an email to [Click to display email address].

Emails relating to one of situations above will be referred back to the corresponding platform.

Donations

If you would like to donate for any project I maintain, head over to buymeacoffee.com/brentvollebregt and leave a message.

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Disclaimer

The information in this weblog is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

This site does not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans or strategies of my employer. It is solely my opinion.

Feel free to challenge me, disagree with me, or tell me I'm completely nuts in the comments section of each blog entry, but I reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason whatsoever (abusive, profane, rude, or anonymous comments) - so keep it polite, please.

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