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MCP is not (quite) RSS

RSS is a technology I have relied on for years.


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Positive feedback

I was doing a 1:1 meeting recently and we talked about their code reviews of a recent joiner.


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Introduction to Rust

Chris Woodruff produced an excellent series of posts to introduce the C# developer to the language of Rust.


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How to remove the noise from Google search

This is a simple way to remove all the extraneous noise from a Google search. All you need to do is append “&udm=14” to any Google search url and it will take out the new AI summary and also the sponsored links.


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Home cooked software

Software is in a massive transition phase where it is now possible for non-developers to produce software that was previously the remit of professional developers.


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I learnt this week - 6th May 2025

The links today include an old obscure bug in Windows, browsing to think, technology non-predictions, AI apps, additional data, Geoguessr expert v AI, a simple question, a false law about headlines and a usable WinDBG debugger.


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I learnt this week - 28th April 2025

The links today include indicating payment, curiosity in hiring, rebuilding Kafka, the near deletion of Toy Story 2, Internet in a box and an object in space, maybe.


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I learnt this week - 22nd April 2025

The links today including bucketing work time, competing on price, n+1 people, football tactics, engineering laws, building Git, (not) delighting customers, librarians, object storage, future of work, a new colour and tech hiring.


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I learnt this week - 14th April 2025

The links today including the best programmers, improving retrospectives, a live tube map, unusual trading cards, prioritisation, complex decisions, MCP issues and conversational interfaces.


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TCL and not fixing bugs

A blast from the past with the language TCL and a nice explanation why some bugs just don’t get fixed.


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