# About Nick

About Nick

Nick Dickinson-Wilde

My name is Nick Dickinson-Wilde(he/him). I make the internet - seriously I'm a small business owner/software engineer and my code is used by over 1% of websites due to open-source contributions (particularly Drupal). Living in Sooke, BC Canada/T'So-uke lands, father, environmentalist and engaged community member.  I love hiking, biking and karate - Sensei at Sooke Shukokai Karate and Karate BC certified Judge A.

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Nick speaking at DrupalCon Portland

Nick Dickinson-Wilde is an expert web developer specializing in Drupal with a side of ops.

# Latest Updates/Featured

East Sooke Residential Road Safety

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East Sooke is predominantly a few secondary roads (East Sooke & Gillespie and to a lesser degree Mt Matheson) with residential neighbourhoods of family homes on side roads. 50kph is a fundamentally unsafe default speed limit for these neighbourhoods.

BC Bill 7 (2025)

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The BC NDP has introduced this spring legislature session Bill 7 - "ECONOMIC STABILIZATION (TARIFF RESPONSE) ACT". The claimed reasoning behind it is the extremely unpredictable economic environment due to the aggressive and malevolent actions particularly tariffs taken by President Trump against Canada. However, the bill is deeply flawed.

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PHP 8.4 Nullable Types

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PHP 8.4 - released at the end of November 2024 - has deprecated implicit nullable types. For many years (since PHP 5.1), types on function arguments could have a default value of null provided even if the type itself was not nullable.

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