Posts

Opinions, mazes and sofas

A wide variety today covering strong opinions, idea and growth mazes and getting sofas around corners.


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Coding, network projects and travel tips

The links today are about developing code without thinking, interesting network projects and extensive travel tips.


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Productivity killer, startups and aliens, and build times

Today we have the main developer productivity killer, startups and aliens, and build time.


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AI jobs scam, book lengths, WASM and Git line endings

Today’s links are about an AI job application scam, why non-fiction books are too long, whether WASM will replace containers and how line endings cause problems in Git.


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Data structure, SaaS v AI agents, chat UIs, developer philosophy and MCP

A collection of links about changing a data structure, SaaS v AI Agents, chat UI for development, a developer philosophy and the Model Context Protocol.


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Blogging, AI interviewing and coding hats

A collection of links about blog writing, AI and the interview process and coding hats.


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Beating the demo gods

Despite the best efforts of the infamous demo gods, sometimes you can come out on top.


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Building a surprise

I’ve never really got into the TV series Gavin and Stacey but I decided to watch the finale and the documentary about the making of it. The finale was brilliantly written and the documentary gave some insight into how they did this.


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Innovation tokens

When you work in technology it is tempting to bring in the new exciting technologies that claim to make your life easier, run faster and bring you rainbow unicorns every day.


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Context switching and code reviews

You are deep in a piece of work and making great progress when a phone call or message breaks you train of thought and derails you. Context switching can have a huge impact on productivity.


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