Prototyping Automatic PR Reviews in Azure DevOps
Recently our project team at work started using the /code-review skill of Claude Code to review each other's PRs. This is a very manual process: whenever a new PR comes through, we each run a local in
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How lint-staged@17.6.0 (kind of) broke Git commits
Recently I helped build and launch a brand new React app for my company. As part of the wrap-up leading to launch, I was tasked with updating npm dependencies to their latest stable versions. Many pac
The 3 developers you will meet in 2027
With adoption of agentic development increasing, the dev populace seems to be splitting into different groups. Developers have mixed opinions about how much AI should be used to write code and impleme
Implementing an expandable row in an HTML table using React
Recently I worked on redesigning the mobile view of a table on an open-source website I maintain. This table had its own mobile component (MyTableMobile.tsx) that displayed each row as a standalone ca
Claude Has An Over-Commenting Problem
As a developer that has been using Claude Code (mostly the Opus & Fable models) for the last few months, I feel I can safely conclude that Claude isn't doing a good job when it decides to write docu-c
Crazy Time To Be A Software Developer
My viewpoint on agentic AI in 2026
Why you should avoid using the effect>setState pattern in React
... and what to replace it with
How to use Husky 9.1.7 in a Monorepo Project
... and have the pre-commit actually run
.NET Conf 2025 - My Takeaways
Last week I attended .NET Conf virtually, and learned a lot. It was a 3-day event. I was only able to attend part of Day 1 as I had interviews happening that week, but there’s a lot of cool stuff that is new with .NET, and I wanted to share my though...
