Building a macOS System Monitor with Vibe Coding and GitHub Copilot
Building software has fundamentally changed. Over the past two days, I built Peep, a native macOS system monitor application, using a development approach th...
Software Engineering
Mastering Docker Bake: Building Multi-Platform Images at Scale
Building Docker images has evolved far beyond simple docker build commands. Modern applications demand multi-platform support to run on both x86 and ARM arch...
Container Security Fundamentals: Protecting Your Containerised Applications
Containers have fundamentally changed how we build and deploy applications, but they’ve also introduced new security considerations that many teams struggle ...
Mastering pnpm Workspaces: A Complete Guide to Monorepo Management
Managing multiple related packages and applications can quickly become a nightmare with traditional package managers. Enter pnpm workspaces – a powerful feat...
Modeling Relational Data in DynamoDB: The Adjacency List Pattern
One of the biggest challenges when transitioning from relational databases to DynamoDB is figuring out how to model relationships between entities. General d...
Leading Without Authority: Influencing Technical Decisions Across Teams
As a principal engineer, your biggest impact comes through influence, not authority. Here’s how to guide technical decisions across teams you don’t manage.
How to Ace the Coding Interview: Tips, Strategies, and Real Examples
A practical guide to preparing for a technical coding interview, with example C# problems, solutions, and strategies for success.
Micro-Frontends: Scaling Front-End Development Without Losing Your Mind
Modern front-end apps are increasingly complex, often built by multiple teams with different goals, timelines, and domains. While microservices helped decoup...
The Future of AI in Software Development: A Partnership, Not a Replacement
The future of AI in software development is something that has been hotly debated, and I can understand why so many are quick to jump to the conclusion that ...
Getting to grips with CSS: A Beginner’s Tutorial (Part 2)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fundamental technology for web development, allowing you to control the presentation and layout of your HTML documents. Thi...
Getting to grips with CSS: A Beginner’s Tutorial (Part 1)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a fundamental technology for web development, allowing you to control the presentation and layout of your HTML documents. Thi...
Monorepo vs Polyrepo - a comparison
When it comes to organising code repositories for software development projects, two popular approaches are monorepo and polyrepo. Both have their advantages...
Types of software testing
Software testing is a crucial step in the software development lifecycle. It helps identify and fix bugs and issues in the software before it is released to ...