After deciding I couldn’t get the URLs I wanted for my blog using Cloudflare Pages without some actual real honest-to-goodness rewrites I had to use GitHub Actions for the first time ...

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So I wanted to parse the feed I retrieved yesterday, and now I know a bit more about how the package system works, I just search NuGet and found SimpleFeedReader $ dnu install SimpleFeedReader At this point Visual Studio Code prompts me that it needs to run the restore command, so I click the butt...

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After yesterday’s adventure and recent forehead-smacking, this seemed like an appropriate, and small, goal. After some Googling I found RestSharp, which bills itself as a Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET

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It’s been a few years since I last used .net so I thought I’d give it a go. It was slightly more eventful 30 minutes than I’d have liked, so I thought I’d write it up. I started by trying to install Visual Studio, but half an hour later it was still under 50% done, and since I only wanted to be writing scripts rather than applications, I started looking for some smaller getting started g...

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I remember being a new developer and thinking that vertical alignment of code, whilst having some minor upsides, was just too damn ugly to do. Now I’m much older and the less time I have to spend parsing someone else’s code before I can see if it’s

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So, despite my sterling attempt to delude myself last year it’s been years since I’ve been a developer rather than a manager, and it was about the time of this change in my role that this blog started to die out. All I have now are opinions and guidance, which the internet is far too full of for me to want to add to (plus I am stil...

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Yesterday, with the return of my family from holiday, I forgot to make changes to any of my projects in GitHub, and broke my commit streak at 57 days. Initially I’d aimed for making changes on 30 consecutive days, just to try and get some momentum up in making progress on a couple of fairly low-key projects that hadn’t been going anywhere, and ...

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Three months ago my first son, Daniel was born. I think it fair to say that blogging and coding have not been high on my agenda 🙂

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In my last appraisal at work I got asked what I thought makes a good developer. I didn’t give a very good answer, mumbling something about keeping up with current developments, reading around the subject, always trying to improve themselves, comparing yourself to other people and so on. It turns out that in the last few weeks some people have attempted to answer this question for me....

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Appalled by my recent low level of productivity, I’ve set myself a number of small achievable tasks to perform. The first took a few hours of coding and is presented here: The UK Blogger Map What surprised me the most about doing this was that I ended up with so few entries. Admittedly there are two layers of selection – first you m...

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