TIL capitalising letters with regex
Fixing a code analysis auto-fix which made acronyms less clear
Jun 3, 20262 min read
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Month in review: May 2026
Things I learnt A HashSet is for storing unique elements. The point is that it has O(1) lookups like a Dictionary does. It uses the same basic mechanism as a Dictionary does (hashing objects then usi
Jun 1, 20264 min read
TIL how to find latitude and longitude of a geolocation stored in SQL Server
I was recently working with an EF Core entity which contained a C# Point property representing a geolocation. This was stored in a single column in a SQL Server database. (I think this uses NetTopolog
May 7, 20262 min read
Months in review: March & April 2026
I've really not done much reading or thinking about tech in recent months, so this will be very brief! Things that happened I've tasked Claude with writing explanation of a few codebases I work with.
May 1, 20262 min read
Month in review: February 2026
Things that happened I've installed https://github.com/johncmunson/claude-code-transcripts which is handy for copying formatted content from Claude Code into Obsidian. (I installed this rather than S
Mar 3, 20264 min read
Powershell script to download Azure DevOps project wiki
Azure DevOps has two types of wikis: Code wikis (Git-backed) - which you can clone Project wikis (non-Git) - stored in Azure DevOps' internal storage The Azure DevOps UI gives you the URL to clone
Feb 27, 20262 min read
First impressions of Claude Code after using GitHub Copilot
Background I’m a long-time user of GitHub Copilot as a professional programmer, as my employer gave me access when we first started trialling its use in our company. I’ve used it mainly through Rider, which is the IDE I generally prefer, although I h...
Feb 3, 20269 min read
Month in review: January 2026
Things that happened From a technical point of view, the main thing that happened in January is that I got access to Claude Code and have been playing around with that. I hope to write up my thoughts soon. Things I learnt I’ve published a number o...
Feb 2, 20263 min read
TIL about typescript typing `as const`
I knew that typescript supports a type being a specific string, rather than the string type, so (for example) a function parameter can only receive the string “foo” and not a different string. Today I learnt that this can be done by using the as cons...
Jan 28, 20261 min read