September 19, 2025
8 minute read
We spend plenty of time as engineers either being onboarded into a new organisation / project or helping onboard others.
The best onboarding experiences I've had have been low-stress, with a clear patβ¦
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June 25, 2025
19 minute read
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 β¦
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January 13, 2024
8 minute read
How and why I created sln-items-sync - a dotnet tool to generate SolutionItems from filesystem folders.
If you want to skip the backstory head over: https://github.com/timabell/sln-items-sync
15 yearβ¦
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August 24, 2022
5 minute read
Learn to code... then get endlessly better at coding...
Be good at coding.
The end.
... but wait, there's more.
There is truly endless training available for getting better at the craft of being a dβ¦
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July 8, 2021
6 minute read
Someone has probably sent you a link to this blog post in response to you posting multiple messages in a slack channel on the same topic.
Don't worry, we're not angry with you, we just want to help. Wβ¦
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January 25, 2021
10 minute read
This is for my children when they're old enough to read them and benefit from them, and when they decide to take an interest in the advice of their boring old man, however I'd recommend this list to aβ¦
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