Joe Stead

I've spent a bit of time playing with Fable 5 on the train home this evening. Early indicators are that it's a really, really good model. Need more time to experiment with this.

I tried to get a decision signed off recently. I failed. There are always loads of reasons to say no. The real question is, what do we need to say yes? I never gave them that. Three minutes: joestead.codes/posts/everyo...

I'm sure a lot of you, like me, have watched your coding agent grep its way around your codebase, burning tokens it actually needed for the real problem. Turns out there's a tidy fix, courtesy of @jetbrains.com , what do you think? joestead.codes/posts/jetbra...

It's May. I can't believe Starmer would do this to us.

I've recently had to use MS Teams, so here's my regular gripe. MS Teams creates silos, not collaborative work. It's an awful platform and does not facilitate an effective, collaborative, online work space.

The iRobot/Roomba customer support is possibly the worst in the world. On the one hand, I love having these robot vacuums/mops to clean up after my dog that sheds hair constantly. On the other hand, I wish I went with a competitor of theres. Absolute joke

@jonathanchannon.com Yo. Done much with Dapr?

Say 👋 to ChatOps that actually works: the Grafana Cloud app for Slack. Ask about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate: https://grafana.com/blog/chatops-that-actually-works-grafana-cloud-slack-and-ai-powered-observability

I genuinely think SQL might be the best bit of technology ever. I'm not very good at it, but it just works, for so many things, and if it doesn't work, it's probably because you're wrong

HUGE bug fix in the IntelliJ platform for people use Claude code inside the embedded terminal. Can't wait for this to be shipped in the next update. Nice job @jetbrains.com youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-2...

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There we go. That there’s a headline.

I do not understand why so many people use tailwind.

"New pomodoro technique. Work until you hit your AI limits then take a break" - @json.codes

@toddhgardner.com @trackjs.com Hey! Your pricing table alignment is off when using Firefox and the ticks. It's making my eye twitch :)

I have made Claude so unbelievably British

If GCP goes down today/tomorrow it would mean that the major cloud providers all had an outage in the past month. AWS was down Oct 19th, Azure was the Oct 29th. Cloudflare is right now. I kind of want GCP to go down to hear all of the opinions from "experts"

When using Claude Code, I think it's important to give it a useful CLAUDE.md file so you can get the best results (and character)

Just released Carter v10.0.0 🚀 Now supports .NET 10 🎉 Uses latest FluentValidation version 🎉 Adds new MapFormPost<T> extension 🎉 Supports latest EF Core Still: allows you to group your routes provides request validation provides content negotiation www.nuget.org/packages/Car... #dotnet #csharp

Claude continues to impress me. It's so good at doing the "boring" bit of software dev.

Today is a day filled with first world problems. One of my robots keeps ending it's task prematurely and I don't know why, and my notebook is out of battery.

Is Python a language that everyone made up to troll me? It is a nonsense language

RIP my fence. 2023-2025

I think the tribalism over programming languages is irrelevant and means nothing, that said, I hate reading Python

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

I start a new job on Monday, so today I decided to rearrange my office. New job, new me. Wait no. New job, new office layout

I don't understand the obsession with dark themes on things. I like working in well lit areas and light text on a dark background is just awful to read. What am I missing?

Back on the market for a new job. 2025 is going well

Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry. 1/6

Azure Functions do not make sense to me compared to AWS Lambda. I know they're different, but still, it doesn't fit my mental model of a serverless application. Anyway, can't wait to go cut the grass tonight

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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