AI Learnings from Upgrading My Blog
Six lessons from migrating my blog from Gridsome to Nuxt with GitHub Copilot, from strict linting and agent instructions to parallel experiments.
Muhammad Rehan Saeed
AI Gone Rogue
An odd message from a colleague led me to add one very specific instruction to my AI agent: bring HAL, and say when a reply is automated.
On the Etiquette of Pull Request Comments
Commenting on a pull request is fraught with potential pitfalls. Here is a short guide to the etiquette of writing pull request comments.
I Was Awarded as an Open UK Honouree
I am very thankful for being awarded as an Open UK 2022 Honouree. Open UK is an organisation funded by tech companies to lobby the UK government in favour of open source.
Live Streaming .NET
How I started live streaming my learnings on C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core and beyond to YouTube and Twitch.
Optimally Configuring Open Telemetry Tracing for ASP.NET Core
How to optimally configure Open Telemetry traces for ASP.NET Core enriched with lots of extra information.
The Problem with C# 10 Implicit Usings
I tried using C# 10 implicit using statements and found that they had a fatal flaw which meant you couldn't use them under certain circumstances
The Windows Package Manager
The Windows Package Manager or winget has recently got quite good with the version 1.1 release. Here is my new machine setup script
.NET Boxed Visual Studio Integration
You can now create .NET Boxed projects directly from Visual Studio. Here's a short post showing you how.
Code Coverage & Frontend Testing
What is the correct level of code coverage for your project and what tools are best for quickly writing unit and integration tests for a frontend application.