Giving Claude Code a /goal
I recently use the /goal command in Claude Code for the first time. I was struggling to reproduce a bug that I already had a theoretical understanding of from investigating the codebase, but had previ
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Month in review: June 2026
Things that happened I received a happy birthday message from our HR system. It gave me the same vibes as the AI-written compliments I mentioned in Month in review: May 2026. Microsoft ran an "AI sk
TIL capitalising letters with regex
Fixing a code analysis auto-fix which made acronyms less clear
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
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
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.
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
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
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...
