Mike Hadlow

Great work from @avibagla.com‬!

Oh yes! It works!

The Bluesky Dictionary Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.

Just doing my bit: gracefullest ditziness fetishisms!
www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...

Dig!

Why does this not surprise me. Extraversion by profession.

It's always stuck me that people who really love their work never really retire. Think artists, many writers, musicians, most politicians (!).

Higher Kinds in C# with language-ext [Part 1] Version 5 of language-ext introduces the concept of higher-kinded traits. This series unpacks the implications of that!

Very interesting blog series from @paullouth.bsky.social on higher kinded types in C#. He's kinda (see what I did there) made an `M a` out of a `K<M, A>`.
It actually comes out reasonably smooth (but agreed that it should be in the language).
paullouth.com/higher-kinds...

Um, "startup idea"?
You use this word "retirement", I'm not sure you know what it means?
😀

BTW, very much enjoying your Higher Kinds post series. K<F, A> is a real insight.

He he, nice one.
That Model D is a beauty.

Hi Paul,
Only just saw this. Congratulations! I assume this means a considerable extension to the modular synth?

Avoid IaaS Lock-In With a SAML Proxy TL;DR Adopting an Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) provider can save huge time and effort when implementing a B2B SaaS product, but it can also result in deep lock-in with the provider. I explain ho...

I've written about how you can avoid vendor lock-in when adopting an IaaS for SSO authentication.
mikehadlow.com/posts/2025-0...

Your Code as a Crime Scene, Second Edition Blends criminal psychology with code analysis to help you investigate and improve your code, software architecture, and organization.

Oh, and now I find that there's about to be a second edition of his excellent book Your Code As A Crime Scene (essential reading IMHO).
pragprog.com/titles/atcri...

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Or maybe the answer for that is an MCP server for Adam Tornhill's Codescene tool? codescene.com

A large enough context window to consume an entire project's Git commit history and for the LLM to be able to tell me who wrote what and why would be extremely useful.

Building greenfield software is certainly fun, but it's actually quite a rare treat for most professional software engineers. The vast majority of work is maintaining and extending large legacy systems. If LLMs are going to help, very large context windows are a essential.

Inside my BMG Super. Construction is quite different from any other electric guitar I've seen. Very easy to access everything once you take off the scratch plate.

Is this a new theory of history Dan?
You could call it the chaos/boredom cycle.

RIP Brummie Rock God Ozzy. A big part of my teenage childhood was spent listening to Paranoid. Still one of my favourite albums.

In the early days there were quite a few thoughtful and interesting lectures, but now it's just a performance of feel-good fluff. Ken Robinson's ridiculous rant against education a case in point!

Time to limber up!

I just posted SAML Proxy in HN.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4459...

Sorry prog, I mean, not the Alan Parsons Project.

Ridiculous, but glorious, very British, and very much alive and kicking.

Very obviously prog.

Follow up question.. are Radiohead prog?

Hmm, that ^ was supposed to be gif, but it doesn't render on BS. Oh well. Take a look at the GitHub repo readme, it displays fine there.

I've been working on an open-source SAML Proxy. It's ready to take for a test drive. I'd welcome any feedback: github.com/mikehadlow/s...

Mike Hadlow

Just a reminder that I'm looking for my next role. I've got 20+ years of large scale software dev experience in both IC, team lead, and architecture roles. I've coded primarily in C#/.NET and TypeScript/Node. Perm or contract, but must be remote. Based in the UK.
mikehadlow.com for more details.

My little 1960s house is not pretty, but somehow it aces dealing with extreme weather. Very easy to keep warm in the depths of winter and now pleasantly cool inside (without any air-con) while outside is baking. Whoever built it knew what they were doing.

KNOWER videos are always superb. The Overtime one is my all time favourite.