My personal experience of coding with AI has not yet lived up to the promises and hype I am seeing online. While the initial contact with LLM code generation was certainly impressive, and I would not …

🎙️ Listen to the podcast episode here 🎙️ I was reading some code recently that had a bunch of problems at various layers, and in spite of all my years of coding and the fact that it's not even my projec…

It might seem a bit odd to write a post on software tests after so many years and so much content, yet to this day I see well meaning developers writing software without adequate test coverage. In fac…

Hexagonal Architecture? Uh... what? I'd largely ignored hexagonal architecture thus far in my career. I'd heard of it at some point. Read a bit about it and not really grokked it. I talked to some peo…

An argument (lol) for the use of explicit argument names in C# function calls even when they seem redundant. You can assert correctness when reviewing the call site in a dumb text display (e.g. a pat…

Reasons you should prefer a single class / interface / record / enum / struct per file in C# projects. Congitive load Multiple types per file increases the cognitive overhead of remembering where ever…

Sometimes a codebase has an overwhelming amount of "terrible" stuff that as a developer you almost can't help but just diving in and fixing it. Doing this without thinking too hard can result in many …

Small matter of code style that I keep coming across. Whether to write if (thing) Action(); or if (thing) Action(); or if (thing) { Action(); } We should always use the braces to avoid introducing …