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2026

The Illusion of a One-Time Set-Uporiginal ↗
13 Feb 2026
The Case of the Disappearing Apporiginal ↗
26 Jan 2026

2025

Codurance AI Hackathonoriginal ↗
2 May 2025
A Decade of Lightning Talks with Programming One-Linersoriginal ↗
4 Apr 2025
How Do I Test This?original ↗
20 Feb 2025

2024

Unravelling Conflictoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2024
Using CoPilot-Like Tools is Not Pairingoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2024
Crafters Meetup: Architecture Kataoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2024
Cambridge Software Crafters Meetuporiginal ↗
3 Sept 2024
Naming Functions: When Intent and Implementation Differoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2024
Our Star Bakeroriginal ↗
9 Feb 2024

2023

Unpacking Code Ownershiporiginal ↗
4 Oct 2023

2022

WMI Performance Anomaly: Querying the Number of CPU Coresoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2022

2021

Chaining IF and && with CMDoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2021
Transient Expand-Archive Failuresoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2021
Lose the Source Luke?original ↗
27 Sept 2021
The Case of the Curious Commit Messageoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2021

2020

Planning is Inevitableoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2020
Pair Programming Interviewsoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2020
Fast Hardware Hides Many Sinsoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2020
Simple Tables From JSON Data With JQ and Columnoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2020
Weekend Maintenance as Chaos Engineeringoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2020
Blog Post #300original ↗
3 Feb 2020
Cargo Culting GitFloworiginal ↗
22 Jan 2020

2019

Branching 0 – Git 1original ↗
18 Dec 2019
Git is Not the Problemoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2019
Choosing “a” Database, not “the” Databaseoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2019
Automating Windows VM Creation on Ubuntuoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2019
Arbitrary Cache Timeoutsoriginal ↗
18 Nov 2019
Validate in Productionoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2019
PowerShell’s Call Operator (&) Arguments with Embedded Spaces and Quotesoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2019
CI/CD Server Inline Scriptsoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2019
Abstraction with Database Viewsoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2019
The Perils of Multi-Phase Constructionoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2019
A Not So Minor Hardware Revisionoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2019
Feature Branches and Package Dependenciesoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2019

2018

“Hello World” Storiesoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2018
Overthinking is not Overengineeringoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2018
Feeling Isolatedoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2018
Proxy Weirdness – Socket Closed on 404original ↗
8 Nov 2018
Always Reply Within Your SLA – Succeed or Abortoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2018
Technical Debt – Conscious Competenceoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2018
Beware the Easy Fixoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2018
Surgical Support Needs Surgical Toolsoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2018
Test Language: Behaviours, Not Examplesoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2018
TODO or TODO Not – Reduxoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2018
Delivery Anti-Pattern: Local Optimisationsoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2018
Optimistic SQLoriginal ↗
12 Jul 2018
Support-Friendly Toolingoriginal ↗
10 Jul 2018
Treat All Test Environments Like Productionoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2018
Test the Code, Not the Mockoriginal ↗
25 May 2018
It Compiles, Ship It!original ↗
17 May 2018
The Perils of DateTime.Parse()original ↗
11 May 2018

2017

Wit Limitsoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2017
Network Saturationoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2017
Fallibilityoriginal ↗
2 Dec 2017
Good Stories Assure the Architectureoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2017
The User-Agent is not Just for Browsersoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2017
Don’t Hide the Solution Structureoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2017
Every Commit Needs the Rationale to Support Itoriginal ↗
11 Oct 2017
Refactoring – Before or After?original ↗
15 Jun 2017
Stack Overflow With Custom JsonConverteroriginal ↗
12 Jun 2017
Are Refactoring Tools Less Effective Overall?original ↗
23 May 2017
Excel-style DDE Requestsoriginal ↗
18 May 2017
My Dislike of GOPATHoriginal ↗
16 May 2017
Manual Mutation Testingoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2017
Automate Only What You Need Tooriginal ↗
28 Feb 2017
LINQ: Did You Mean First(), or Really Single()?original ↗
28 Feb 2017
Dumbing Down Codeoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2017
Journey Codeoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2017
Weak and Strong Idempotencyoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2017
The Cost of Long-Lived Feature Branchesoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2017

2016

Surprising Defaults – HttpClient ExpectContinueoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2016
Overly Prescriptive Testsoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2016
In The Toolbox – Season Twooriginal ↗
15 Nov 2016
Automated Integration Testing with TIBCOoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2016
Tautologies in Testsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2016
Unmatched REST Resources – 400, 404 or 405?original ↗
27 Oct 2016
PUT vs POST and Idempotencyoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2016
Every Software System is Bespokeoriginal ↗
25 Oct 2016
When Mocks Became Production Servicesoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2016
Confusion Over Wasteoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2016
Sharing Code with Git Subtreeoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2016
Manually Forking Chunks of Open Source Codeoriginal ↗
22 Aug 2016
Estimating is Liberatingoriginal ↗
8 Aug 2016
Documentation, What is it Good For?original ↗
26 Jul 2016
Developers Can Be Their Own Worst Enemyoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2016
Simple Language, Simple Processoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2016
Alternate Way to Mock the Current Time in C#original ↗
13 Jul 2016
Mocking the Current Time in C#original ↗
7 Jul 2016
Don’t Use Side-Effects to Verify Behaviouroriginal ↗
7 Jul 2016
Testing 101 - A + B = Coriginal ↗
7 Jul 2016
Turning Technical Tasks Into User Storiesoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2016
Confusing Assert and Throworiginal ↗
24 Jun 2016
Mocking Framework Expectationsoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2016
Showcasing APIs – The Demo Siteoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2016
My Kingdom for a C# Typedeforiginal ↗
2 Jun 2016
The Curse of NTLM Based HTTP Proxiesoriginal ↗
29 May 2016
The Tortoise and the Hareoriginal ↗
23 May 2016
Debbie Does Developmentoriginal ↗
23 May 2016
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