HUGE bug fix in the IntelliJ platform for people use Claude code inside the embedded terminal. Can't wait for this to be shipped in the next update. Nice job @jetbrains.com youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-2...

I'm going to be in London on the 20th Jan for the JetBrains fintech day (lp.jetbrains.com/london-finte...) Will I see anyone I know there 👀

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There we go. That there’s a headline.

I've been building my first claude subagent/skill set to help with technical discovery of projects. This isn't saving me hours of effort, it's saving me days.

I do not understand why so many people use tailwind.

"New pomodoro technique. Work until you hit your AI limits then take a break" - @json.codes

@toddhgardner.com @trackjs.com Hey! Your pricing table alignment is off when using Firefox and the ticks. It's making my eye twitch :)

I have made Claude so unbelievably British

If GCP goes down today/tomorrow it would mean that the major cloud providers all had an outage in the past month. AWS was down Oct 19th, Azure was the Oct 29th. Cloudflare is right now. I kind of want GCP to go down to hear all of the opinions from "experts"

When using Claude Code, I think it's important to give it a useful CLAUDE.md file so you can get the best results (and character)

Just released Carter v10.0.0 🚀 Now supports .NET 10 🎉 Uses latest FluentValidation version 🎉 Adds new MapFormPost<T> extension 🎉 Supports latest EF Core Still: allows you to group your routes provides request validation provides content negotiation www.nuget.org/packages/Car... #dotnet #csharp

Claude continues to impress me. It's so good at doing the "boring" bit of software dev.

Today is a day filled with first world problems. One of my robots keeps ending it's task prematurely and I don't know why, and my notebook is out of battery.

Is Python a language that everyone made up to troll me? It is a nonsense language

RIP my fence. 2023-2025

I think the tribalism over programming languages is irrelevant and means nothing, that said, I hate reading Python

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

I start a new job on Monday, so today I decided to rearrange my office. New job, new me. Wait no. New job, new office layout

I don't understand the obsession with dark themes on things. I like working in well lit areas and light text on a dark background is just awful to read. What am I missing?

Back on the market for a new job. 2025 is going well

Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry. 1/6

Azure Functions do not make sense to me compared to AWS Lambda. I know they're different, but still, it doesn't fit my mental model of a serverless application. Anyway, can't wait to go cut the grass tonight

gRPC coming in next week. Architecture and tech modernisation is officially in full swing. It's been 4 months, but we now have some infrastructure as code, some automated tests (up from 0), and some observability. Small, but positive steps.

K6 is pretty cool

Tried booking a hotel Thursday-Sunday, no rooms, Thursday-Monday, they have rooms though. Make it make sense

I've really been enjoying using Claude Code the past few weeks. It's been able to identify problematic areas of a large solution for me at ease, and it's great at verifying it's output too.

I was hoping this was possible, and it is. Finally a sensible, central place for onboarding info, documentation, standards docs etc. at the heart of where devs spend most of their time. docs.github.com/en/organizat...

I don't know how I wasn't aware of Kotlin Multiplatform. I have a free weekend for the first time in months coming up, it's going to be raining too, I know what I'm going to be doing. (Probably odd jobs around the house) www.jetbrains.com/kotlin-multi...

I had an issue today and for the first time ever the solution was an old blog post of mine. I never write blog posts. Quite satisfying

More and more often I find myself doing something in c# and wishing it was typescript instead. 7 or 8 years ago I would have never thought of anything like this.

Do you still need to set `AZURE_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_ACTIVITY_SOURCE` to get Open Telemetry data from Azure SDK for .NET? The only info I can find on this is a 4 year old blog post devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/in...

Azure isn't a developer friendly cloud platform. It's far from it

I know we got timezones terribly wrong, but I think there's still time to agree on a standardised volume standard for TV/film. Let's get the balance right between background sound and everything else

My yearly thought of wondering if I should invest in Air Conditioning for the house has started really early this year

So a question for people who are familiar with Azure. A simple API that I want to scale horizontally - Azure App Service or Azure Container Service? I'm leaning towards the simplicity of App Service, not sure what adding in containers really gives me

www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/a... I don’t know if it’s “half,” but yeah. A number of my clients would.

Does anyone else remember in 2018 when they had ads running during the world cup which were a washing machine talking to a dishwasher and it was blockchain related? Best ads ever. No idea what they were selling

This is really clever and fun! @paulbutler.org found a way to hide text 'in' an emoji by hacking the way unicode works. paulbutler.org/2025/smuggli... He also build a tool to encode en decode your own messages. 😎󠅇󠅟󠅧󠄑󠄐󠅃󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅓󠅜󠅕󠅦󠅕󠅢󠄐󠅟󠅞󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅑󠅤󠄐󠅖󠅙󠅗󠅥󠅢󠅕󠅔󠄐󠄹󠄐󠅘󠅙󠅔󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅝󠅕󠅣󠅣󠅑󠅗󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅞󠄐󠅝󠅩󠄐󠄲󠅜󠅥󠅕󠅣󠅛󠅩󠄐󠅠󠅟󠅣󠅤󠄯󠄐󠄻󠅥󠅔󠅟󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄑 emoji-encoder.vercel.app?mode=decode

Just my wonderful dog having a quick break mid walk

It pains me to do it every time, but some times I just have to link to something @damian.social has done. Succinct and delivers the point perfectly. dhickey.ie/2014/03/03/g...

I completely forgot about WCF until about 8 hours ago. I miss how blissful I was yesterday

I've got loads of bank accounts now (personal and business) and Starling Bank holds up better than any others BY FAR. So, good, integrates with other things via OpenBanking way more efficiently than anything else I've experienced. If you're in the UK, you should get a Starling account

I've been up since 5am. I've just discovered I could've seen a lunar eclipse. Well today is a disaster already

Today has marked my second day ever at a gym, and honestly I'm feeling better mentally immediately. Turns out looking after your body looks after your mind. Who knew?

3 years ago we had an off site in Dubrovnik, based on this drawing a lone, I think it was worth it.

Anxiety sucks. Screaming into the unknown tonight

Every now and then I remember CSS animations exist and all productivity ceases to a halt and I play around with animations on a frontend instead. Great use of time

Been trying to contact Asda to inform them about the swastikas they have graffitied on their wall, the customer service in store didn't care and I can't find a contact form online, unbelievable

Just (re)discovered @vite.dev has a built in proxy making CORS issues on local dev a non-issue, Beautiful.