Joe Stead

It is for me too, but it's a useful stepping stone!

.net 4 and jQuery are core for us still. This is a long term job

gRPC coming in next week. Architecture and tech modernisation is officially in full swing.

It's been 4 months, but we now have some infrastructure as code, some automated tests (up from 0), and some observability.

Small, but positive steps.

I feel like the approach I take to software, and the approach you take to software, could not be any more different if we tried

Definitely. I love this kind of thing

As humorous as this is, I think we can all agree that the state of CSS today is infinitely better than it was 10-15 years ago. It still has quirks, but it's good now.

K6 is pretty cool

Tried booking a hotel Thursday-Sunday, no rooms, Thursday-Monday, they have rooms though. Make it make sense

I've really been enjoying using Claude Code the past few weeks. It's been able to identify problematic areas of a large solution for me at ease, and it's great at verifying it's output too.

Customizing your organization's profile - GitHub Docs You can share information about your organization by customizing your organization's profile.

I was hoping this was possible, and it is. Finally a sensible, central place for onboarding info, documentation, standards docs etc. at the heart of where devs spend most of their time.

docs.github.com/en/organizat...

Kotlin Multiplatform – Build Cross-Platform Apps Kotlin Multiplatform is a technology for reusing up to 100% of your code across Android, iOS, web, and desktop, with Compose Multiplatform for shared UIs.

I don't know how I wasn't aware of Kotlin Multiplatform.

I have a free weekend for the first time in months coming up, it's going to be raining too, I know what I'm going to be doing.

(Probably odd jobs around the house)

www.jetbrains.com/kotlin-multi...

I had an issue today and for the first time ever the solution was an old blog post of mine. I never write blog posts. Quite satisfying

More and more often I find myself doing something in c# and wishing it was typescript instead.

7 or 8 years ago I would have never thought of anything like this.

Introducing experimental OpenTelemetry support in the Azure SDK for .NET In this article, we look at our current effort to integrate OpenTelemetry with the new Azure SDK client libraries for .NET.

Do you still need to set `AZURE_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_ACTIVITY_SOURCE` to get Open Telemetry data from Azure SDK for .NET? The only info I can find on this is a 4 year old blog post devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/in...

The documentation and SDK setup of AWS is significantly better imo

You can. It's just sometimes the best version of yourself is shit, and that's ok.

Azure isn't a developer friendly cloud platform. It's far from it

I know we got timezones terribly wrong, but I think there's still time to agree on a standardised volume standard for TV/film. Let's get the balance right between background sound and everything else

Yeah, I know people rate them these days, but damage done

I'd buy one, but unfortunately I bought the Samsung S3 and it was the worst phone ever. Cheap plastic bloatware shit, so I'm never going for Samsung again. I need more manufacturers to build flip phones like this

I want a flip phone so my pockets aren't so full. If foldable phones get me there, yes

My yearly thought of wondering if I should invest in Air Conditioning for the house has started really early this year

Tomato/vodka sauce is an American "Italian" thing

It's a cultural shift that's happened post-covid. I remember people asking others to use headphones, now it's just accepted that every form of public transport is a mash of random tik-tok/instagram brain rot things.

It's so annoying. We need to go back to calling people out

So a question for people who are familiar with Azure.

A simple API that I want to scale horizontally - Azure App Service or Azure Container Service?

I'm leaning towards the simplicity of App Service, not sure what adding in containers really gives me

AWS: Customers would flee Azure if licensing costs were fair : Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair

www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/a...

I don’t know if it’s “half,” but yeah. A number of my clients would.

I use dashes a fair amount and some editors convert it to that

Does anyone else remember in 2018 when they had ads running during the world cup which were a washing machine talking to a dishwasher and it was blockchain related?

Best ads ever. No idea what they were selling

This is really clever and fun! @paulbutler.org found a way to hide text 'in' an emoji by hacking the way unicode works.
paulbutler.org/2025/smuggli...

He also build a tool to encode en decode your own messages. 😎󠅇󠅟󠅧󠄑󠄐󠅃󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅓󠅜󠅕󠅦󠅕󠅢󠄐󠅟󠅞󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅑󠅤󠄐󠅖󠅙󠅗󠅥󠅢󠅕󠅔󠄐󠄹󠄐󠅘󠅙󠅔󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅝󠅕󠅣󠅣󠅑󠅗󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅞󠄐󠅝󠅩󠄐󠄲󠅜󠅥󠅕󠅣󠅛󠅩󠄐󠅠󠅟󠅣󠅤󠄯󠄐󠄻󠅥󠅔󠅟󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄑 emoji-encoder.vercel.app?mode=decode

Guessing GitHub pages?

You're a secure user. So many aren't.

That said I had to login to a system today with user and password, it emailed me a code, and then I had to login again with user, password, and that code. Mental