One Weekly read on Automation & Development

Ever heard of LOGAF? LOGAF stands for 'Level of Giving a Fuck' and, trust me, it's not just a fancy term. It’s a life-altering philosophy you'll want to embrace. Rewind to my youthful days, armed to...

Think it's necessary to mock ILogger? Using Moq or NSubstitute to do this? Think again. In the C# world, many developers do this - but there's a more efficient way. Enter NullLogger. NullLogger, a...

Missing the metro isn't a big deal... If you know another one's just five minutes away! 🕐 Ever felt the same about software releases? 🤔 If you can release anytime, missing a release isn't a concern....

Hard work vs. smart work An age-old debate. Ever thought 'busy' might be a trap? It's not the hours we pour into work, but the work we pour into those hours. Replace 'work hard' with 'work smart'....

Entitled Open-Source Users! Yesterday, I touched on Moq... It had included a 'SponsorLink', causing a bit of a stir with email fiddling. 📧 Its purpose? Simple... to check if you've sponsored Moq. If...

Remove Moq now! Using Moq for dotnet mocking? 👀Watch out! Since version 4.20, they've introduced a sneaky SponserLink. What does it do? It scans for your 📩email in your git folder during build....

Software development - a love that consumes you ❤️ Steals your hours ⏰, your camaraderie 🤝, even your romance 💑 Despite your best intentions to balance it, the scales ⚖️ tip towards it. The real...

Developers are masochists 😈 They enjoy the thrill of the challenge... 🎢 Where the compiler turns them down 99% of the time 🚫, yet they persist to make it work. 💪 Just a thought...🧐

Make HTML More Powerful! 💪 Four issues with HTML: 1. Why should only 'a' and 'form' element 🔤 be able to make HTTP requests? 2. Why should only click & submit events 👆 trigger them? 3. Why...

Politics in your company grinding your progress? 🎲 Political games - they're a reality inside companies 🏢. It doesn't seem fair, but the question is, do you stand against it 👊 or learn the rules and...

Scrum sabotaging dev productivity? I am spotting a pattern lately. Developers doing less and less😯. Why? Estimates are getting increasingly bloated 🎈. What's inflating these estimates? It's down to...