MANY articles on a wide array of topics. You’ll find a lot of my newer content is going to my YouTube channel first, but I do still blog occasionally.
Last updated: 13 October 2023 Recently in one of our great devBetter discussions, Rick Hodder (go follow him now) shared a cool extension for VS Code. Basically, it lets you turn VS Code into a REST client. Think of it …
I don’t know how I didn’t know about this before now, but apparently you can turn on autocorrect for your git command line, and it will accept (after a short delay in which you can cancel) commands that are …
Writing any significantly complex software application involves the use of encapsulation boundaries and abstractions. How many levels of such groupings do you have, and how many at each level?
I’m home after surviving another great Codemash! I’m not sure how many Codemash events I’ve attended but I think it’s [ALL OF THEM] - 2 (looks like the first one was in 2007 so if my math is right …
A checklist listing things to consider including in your year in review article.
I recently needed to find which of a bunch of markdown files had a particular string in them. My initial thought, since I'm on Windows, was to use Windows File Explorer's search dialog. No dice - it found no results when …
I first learned about Domain-Driven Design, or DDD, over ten years ago. Since then, I’ve given more workshops on the topic, both public and private on sites, than I can remember. Julie Lerman and I also published a …
Controllers are dinosaurs - it's time to embrace Endpoints. The MVC pattern doesn't actually work as well for APIs as other options, like the Request-Endpoint-Response (REPR) pattern.
Last week during one of my devBetter coaching sessions, the conversation turned to spikes and Minimum Viable Products (and even not-so-viable products). Sometimes, in order to get rapid feedback, it’s useful to …