The OldWood Thing

Note: This blog post follows the modern recipe style – a load of unimportant background history before presenting the real content. So, jus...

I’ve no idea where I first came across the following premise for when starting a new code change: “First ask yourself, how do I test this...

An interesting question came up at a meet-up I recently attended, where they were discussing approaches to coaching and mentoring. The quest...

Ever since the rise of LLM based tools like ChatGPT and CoPilot there have been quips made about how great it makes as a pairing partner. Th...

Last time I wrote about the monthly Cambridge Software Crafters Meetup which I started attending almost a year ago. In that post I briefly ...

Despite living pretty close to Cambridge I’ve never actually worked there. For the past 25 years I’ve commuted to London because it was easi...

Most of the time these days when I get into a conversation about naming it tends to be about tweaking the language, perhaps because I think ...