I already knew how to put things on a Kubernetes cluster. Helm packages the YAML. kubectl apply makes it exist. cert-manager mints the certificates. What I did not have was a boring answer to “what happens next week, when I have forgotten which laptop I ran that from?” GitOps is that answer, at least for platform on my...
On a lot of days my pair programmer is not a person. It is Copilot finishing a method, or Cursor proposing a multi-file edit I still have to own. Back in April I covered how I use ChatGPT, Cursor, and Copilot on side projects . That was mostly about which tool I reach for. Here I want to talk about what that looks like...
For years, API designers have had an awkward choice when a search got too complex for a URL. Stuff it into a GET query string and hit practical URI length limits, or send a body with POST and pretend a read-only filter is a write. Neither option felt right. In June 2026 the IETF published RFC 10008 , which defines...
Every November, .NET Conf brings a new major release of .NET. If you have been building on the platform since the early 2020s, you have watched the ecosystem move from “.NET Core” to a single, unified .NET — and pick up minimal APIs, Native AOT, Blazor full stack, Aspire, and a steady stream of C# language improvements...
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Sadly earlier this year I was made redundant from my Software Developer job. Looking for a new job has not been fun, but a few common themes have emerged that I wanted to share. My hope is that these will help others to put things in place that may help them in the future. Go to events and meet people Something I have...
If you have ever tried to rewatch Star Trek properly—not just dip into a favourite episode, but work through hundreds of instalments across multiple series—you will know the feeling. You pause Deep Space Nine for a few weeks, start something else, and suddenly you have no idea which episode you were on. Spreadsheets...
There is no shortage of AI tools aimed at developers right now: chat assistants, IDE completions, agents that promise to run your tests, and new products every month with overlapping features. I am not going to argue which one is “best.” Instead, here is what I am actually using today on hobby code: ChatGPT for quick,...
Introduction – The Shift We are Living Through As I write this, I have just been made redundant. AI is not being used to explain this particular redundancy, but it is being used to explain many redundancies across the industry. I just got laid off..... Again...... I am still in shock. I loved my new job and was...
As someone who works with both Azure and AWS regularly, I’ve had hands-on experience with both Azure Container Registry (ACR) and AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR). Recently, while migrating my blog’s deployment pipeline to use ECR, I encountered some interesting differences that are worth sharing. The Basics Both...