David Whitney articles - 28 total
Context Transference
One of the hardest refactorings to get right is the balance between extract and inlining of...
7 AI Predictions (AI, We Really Need To Talk: Part 2)
Before we get started - I'm working on a large paper on the current hype-state of AI, what's actually...
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Form is one of the hardest things to understand in software, mostly because it gets conflated with...
Coverage is not correctness - but it helps!
“Test coverage is not correctness” and “test coverage is not a quality metric” are two of the lesser...
International Women's Day - But is it really a problem?
It was global diversity week last week. Or global women in technology week, or something otherwise...
Lo-Fi Service Discovery in .NET8
The vast majority of systems that you build will inevitably call a HTTP API at some point. Whether...
The Surface Area of Software
The surface area of software is often very complicated to comprehend, and a direct result of that is...
Notes on the Monorepo Pattern
Monorepos (meaning "a singular repository") is a term coined by Facebook to describe a single...
Open-Source Software, Licensing and Enterprise Procurement
Modern software development makes use of hundreds of thousands of open-source software libraries and...
Storing Growing Files Using Azure Blob Storage and Append Blobs
There are several categories of problems that require data to be append only, sequentially stored,...
Writing User Stories
Software development transforms human requirements, repeatedly, until software is eventually...
Open-Source Exploitation
Combative title. I don’t have a title for this that works. It’s horrible, it’s difficult,...
A Love Letter to Software
Most software isn’t what people think it is. It’s a common thread – it’s mistaken for lots of...
Hiring is broken! Let's fix it with empathy.
Hiring technical people is difficult, and doubly so if you want to get people who are a good fit for...
.NET Foundation
I'm running for the board of the .NET foundation @dotnetfdn. Read about why I think it's important....
How to write a tech talk that doesn’t suck
Conferences, user-groups, and internal speaking events are a great way for you to level up your...
Agile software estimation for everyone
Without fail, in every consulting engagement I start, there is a common theme – that failure to artic...
Writing good code by understanding cognitive load
Programming is full of dogma. Programmers are so often self-reflective and obsessed with the 'new wa...
9 time-management tips for developers
One of the things I see absolutely plague developers is time management. There is never enough time i...
Does Functional Programming Make Your Code Hard To Read?
Work in software long enough and you’ll meet people that absolutely adore functional programming, and...
An introduction to TypeScript and ES Modules
JavaScript is everywhere, and TypeScript is JavaScript with some cool extra features. You've probabl...
Using Azure Static Web Apps with Snowpack for TypeScript in your frontend #ServerlessSeptember
In 2020, I’m finding myself writing TypeScript as much as I’m using C# for my day-to-day dev. I’ve fo...
Does remote work make software and teamwork better?
I woke today with an interesting question in my inbox, about the effectiveness of remote work and com...
Azure Static Web Apps are Awesome
Over the last 3 months or so, I’ve been building a lot of experimental software on the web. Silly thi...
Deploying Azure WebApps in 2020 with GitHub Actions
For the longest time, I've relied on, and recommended Azure's Kudu deployment engine as the simplest...
A Guide to Good Code Reviews
Making sure that more than one set of eyes has seen all the code that we produce is an important part...
Music Streaming and the Disappearing Records
[Other tags: streaming technology, music, spotify, digital subscription models, DRM, disruptive techn...
Architecture for Everyone
Someone said the dreaded architecture word and you’re Not-An-Architect? Scared when someon...