I sat down recently to figure out whether an old project of mine was worth turning into a product. A RAG ingestion tool I’d built a while back. By the end of the afternoon I’d…
The last 2 years have been some of the most exciting in the industry. I’ve been thinking a lot this year about the impact AI is having on software development as a craft. I’ve read…
A few weeks ago I was hacking around with Claude Code in Visual Studio. Job boards will say “remote” but when you drill into the detail, you find that whilst a role will say “remote”…
Every markdown editor I tried got something wrong, so I built a small WPF app with a live preview instead. Here’s what it does, how it’s built, and two bugs that only showed up once I actually ran it.
I’m pleased to share that I’m partnering with Pluralsight again, this time on a course called Integrating AI Agents in Enterprise Systems. It’s part of a new path on Agentic AI Integration for Developers, and…
A few weeks ago I passed Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103). It took two attempts however. Some notes on the exam, what you are tested on, and my experience follows….
Willpower depletes and systems don’t — the same principle that makes good software resilient is the one that carried me through the hardest periods of my life.
I’ve been sitting on this one for ages. Every so often someone asks how a tool I once built called Social Opinion got started, or how I ended up in Twitter’s NYC office talking to…
I work across multiple locations. Scotland, England, client sites, my campervan, and sometimes Europe. That means I need a setup that travels without compromise. A proper second screen, a decent keyboard, and access to my…