Mark Davies articles - 27 total
I'll make my own dev container with nvim and blackjack
Blackjack Hookers GIF -...
In Memory Request buckets
The other day I wrote a blog post about my new dev tools page: ...
Some Dev Tools
As part of my dev journey there are a couple of sites that I use to do various things such as...
What happens when we don't refactor
I've just come across what I think is the most hilariously bad code I've ever seen, and the best part...
Creating a command line tool
For a long time now I have been using various website to (for example) generate guids, and I thought...
AspNet Core and Xml
I have been recently working on a legacy api that accepts xml that uses namespaces, and I found the d...
Lies you should never tell yourself about your software
Intro You know, during my career I've worked on some good sysytems and some bad systems -...
Using localstack to run an API
What is localstack? localstack / localstac...
My Electron app - Organising my bookmarks
Over the last couple weeks I've been working on a simple electron app 😄 there has been some anger, so...
Hackathon update #4 - Shoot into the wild blue
So this is it, my final update on the hackathon, it's kind of sad really but it's been pushed to a li...
Hackathon update #3 - Building a pager in Blazor
Introduction You know I feel as though there are a lot of subtle things that happen on web...
Hackathon update #2 - progress a plenty
Okay so first things first, sorry these updates ave not been as plentiful as other people doing the c...
Hackathon update #1
So it has been about two weeks since the kick of of the hackathon and I created a template post of my...
Meeting rules
I was having a conversation with some tech people recently about meetings, those things that we all s...
Twilio Hackathon - Artemis
What I built One thing that the open source initiative does right is to tell people how th...
Trying to find motivation
I haven't been blogging on the site for very long, but since I've been blogging I've been coming up w...
🔥🔥 Setting up my project in Vs Code 🔥🔥
Okay so I have to admit that at this point in my life I have been doing c# development for about 10 y...
Losing my memory
One day whilst our app was running in the QA environment we saw what you see on the left half of th...
Idea for my own DSL to produce music
I have been having an idea recently about whether someone (maybe myself) could create a DSL (domain s...
Foundations - SOLID Intro
You know it's easy in a world with docker containers, actor models, and micro-services to forget the...
My dot net core global tool
Well hey there! Now that the dust has settled a bit and I have calmed down after my last blog post,...
My new configurable server
I think I actually had a productive thought today, and I started coding and I think I've come to a pl...
Sprints/retros are not "agile"
You know I want to get something off of my chest - and that is the word "agile" I hate it! Every comp...
So I've been reading/learning about Domain driven design
What is this? There is a very famous (now) book by Mr. Eric Evans that talks about this th...
Side project update #2 - The week of walls
Last week after writing my update I thought I had the best idea - hey why don't I create an example p...
Side project update #1
Starting my project So I've had to do a lot of research to even get this far but man it ha...
My side project idea
The other day I was looking around for some good components for building a website. Actually scratch...