The policy at my new company is to prefix commit messages with the ID of the story they relate to. This week I tried doing an interactive rebase and came a little unstuck. Turns out that our use of hash symbols in commit messages upsets the interactive rebaser. Read on for the details…
Author: Tom
Beware “RunOnStartup” in Azure Functions – a serverless horror story
Everyone loves a good technology horror story, right? The gorier the better in my experience. Well, over the last weekend we had an, um, “incident“. To my mind, it’s got all the ingredients of an excellent example of the genre: a small mistake, complicated conditions, and a big financial hit (mercifully averted). Sound like your kind of thing? Read on. I hope I do it justice…
New tricks for an old dog – what I learnt from VS Code
After nearly a decade of coding in Visual Studio, a recent change in employment has put me in front of VS Code. The experience has had its ups and downs, so I thought I’d post a few pointers for anyone else who ends up in my situation. Moving beyond practical matters, I’d also like to take a moment to reflect on what the experience of weaning myself off Visual Studio has taught me. Zooming out further still, I close this post by considering what VS Code says about the state of the .NET ecosystem and try to put it all in perspective. If you can stomach all that, read on…
Postman vs Insomnia – why not both?
Just over a year ago I was emphatically singing the praises of Postman. Before that, I’d been using Fiddler to make calls to REST APIs and man, was that a drag! Recently I’ve had a similar experience when I discovered an alternative REST client called Insomnia. Unlike last time, however, I won’t be ditching the previous flavour of the month… Read on to discover why (for the time being at least) they both get a spot on my desktop.
Normal service will resume shortly
I’ve been away for a while, but have finally stopped moving and am getting back into a normal routine. Since this is my first week in a new job, I thought it’d be a good time to give a quick update and to set the agenda for the next few posts.