September 13, 2026
AI is teaching millions of people to communicate with greater precision. But in learning to speak clearly to machines, we should be careful not to lose the ambiguity that gives poetry, humour and human expression their beauty.
September 2, 2026
The tools used for AI-assisted development may be new, but the principles that make them effective are not.
August 2, 2026
AI can produce good code while following a confident but wrong line of reasoning. A better engineering workflow supplies the judgment it lacks.
July 10, 2026
AI pushed software engineering into a different form, where product thinking and respect for process matter more than ever.
July 4, 2026
A practical workflow where Claude implements a change and Codex reviews the pull request automatically in GitHub Actions.
May 16, 2026
A business rule does not really live where the folder says it lives; it lives where its meaning is defined, protected, and kept from quietly becoming four different truths.
May 21, 2024
Why AI generated tests are valuable.
December 30, 2023
About my worst friend.
October 14, 2023
How I perfected my rendition of native American chants.
October 8, 2023
What I remember of day 1 at N.E.D.
October 7, 2023
Strolling down the memory lane on my birthday.
November 24, 2022
What I learned about myself by collecting a huge pile of plastic.
January 8, 2022
An example layout for large CDK projects.
October 9, 2021
How growing software development teams are hurt by territorial tendencies of bad middle management.
April 10, 2021
Improving the ergonomics of my devices for better experience and less pain.
November 20, 2020
How to set access policy on a Key Vault provisioned via an ARM template.
October 21, 2020
Use a PostgreSQL database to store ASP.NET Identity data.
September 4, 2020
Get started with Azure Service Bus client library for .NET.
August 24, 2020
How bias in machine learning impacts our lives and what can we do about it.
August 18, 2020
How to use Azure Service Bus bindings and triggers for Azure Functions to simplify your glue code.