# 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

East Sooke Map

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.

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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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