Book Club 1/26: C#, Without Allocation
I'm not very good at coding for performance. I can do some rudimentary profiling, and if you give me a couple metrics to optimize for I can do a pretty good...
Book Club 10&11/2025: .NET 10, C# 14
Happy Turkey Day! Last year when I published my newsletter on Thanksgiving, I was thankful for my colleagues who make a habit of saying "no.". This year I'm...
Book Club 6&7/2025: Async
These last two months, the interesting thing that I'm researching is asynchronous communication patterns. Last year I wrote a whole series on the Fallacies...
Book Club 6&7/2025: OOP
Happy summer! It's been a couple months since I checked in on my newsletter; I've been busy enjoying sweltering heat, lots of rain, and wildfire smoke. In...
Book Club 4&5/2025: Incidents and Resiliency
In March I moved to a different role at my current firm, and the thing that's changed the most for me is incidents. In the past quarter I have had to respond...
Book Club 2&3/2025: Slack: Communication, Organization, Teams
So a bit ago I got shuffled around onto a new position, I am now the leader of the team responsible for PLPs, PDPs, and such item-related things at...
Book Club 1/25: Results, Railways, and Decisions
I've written before on my enthusiasm for the result pattern, but I'm going to expand on that a bit here and how it relates to testing. I've spent a fair...
Book Club 12/2024: Team Metrics and KPIs
Happy holiday season and new year to you all! In the week between the holidays here I'm thinking about metrics and KPIs and the whatnot that we use in our...
Book Club 11/2024: No
Happy Turkey Day gobble gobble! Those of us in the US are celebrating Thanksgiving Day, and today I'm thankful for all my colleagues who make a habit of...
Book Club 10/2024: Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Happy Halloween! Boo! I'm celebrating now for two reasons. First, the weather is very nice where I'm at; I prefer wearing more layers and Fall is the perfect...
Book Club 9/2024: Blogroll
As I posted a couple weeks ago, this month is the anniversary of restarting my blog! As though trapped in a Norm MacDonald interview, I'm frequently asked by...
Book Club 8/2024: Labor
Happy Labor Day to those in the US! This is the August Book Club but I'm sending it out a couple days late to coincide with Labor Day. I don't have a central...
Book Club 6&7/2024: Postgres
I hope you all in the northern hemisphere are enjoying summer; I've been trying to take some extra time here and there to enjoy things before Minnesota...
Book Club 5/2024: SOLID
Happy Memorial Day to those in the US, I haven't had time to post a lot this month but hopefully this one is controversial enough to make up for it! SOLID,...
Book Club 4/2024: I Don't Like ORMs
Indeed, Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) are a negative thing to me. For the uninitiated, these are tools which automagically provide ways of mapping data...
Book Club 3/2024: Simplicity
Everything is too complicated. Not just in software, everything! This isn't a novel concept, Teddy Roosevelt would have us believe that anything worth doing...
Book Club 2/2024: Recovering from TDD and Unit Tests
I'm on the record as having labeled myself a unit test hater. This is perhaps a bit extreme taken at face value; I like to advocate for approaches which...
Book Club 1/2024: What is a Software Architect?
This question - what is a software architect? - is a bit of an expansive one; I wouldn't think that I could ever answer it thoroughly, much less succinctly...
Book Club 12/2023: Workflow, Process, and Agile
Ho ho ho merry book club day - I'm sending this one out a bit early; tomorrow I'm headed on vacation and won't be back until the new year. Preemptively...
Book Club 11/2023: New .NET, New C#
I'm looking forward to turkey day tomorrow gobble gobble! This year I'm thankful that I work in ecommerce so I get to have a peaceful extended weekend...
