Created a Job Board Because I Was Tired of Lying Job Boards
A few weeks ago I was hacking around with Claude Code in Visual Studio. Job boards will say “remote” but when you drill into the detail, you find that whilst a role will say “remote”…
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One Gym Session, One Cell Phone, One Working App
Every markdown editor I tried got something wrong, so I built a small WPF app with a live preview instead. Here’s what it does, how it’s built, and two bugs that only showed up once I actually ran it.
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New Course Coming Soon: Integrating AI Agents in Enterprise Systems
I’m pleased to share that I’m partnering with Pluralsight again, this time on a course called Integrating AI Agents in Enterprise Systems. It’s part of a new path on Agentic AI Integration for Developers, and…
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Passing the Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate AI-103
A few weeks ago I passed Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Apps and Agents Developer Associate (AI-103). It took two attempts however. Some notes on the exam, what you are tested on, and my experience follows….
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Build Systems, Not Willpower. Engineering a Life That Holds Under Pressure
Willpower depletes and systems don’t — the same principle that makes good software resilient is the one that carried me through the hardest periods of my life.
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What a Side Project Built at Airports Taught Me About Shipping Before You’re Ready
I’ve been sitting on this one for ages. Every so often someone asks how a tool I once built called Social Opinion got started, or how I ended up in Twitter’s NYC office talking to…
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My Go-Anywhere Dev Setup: Tern, Starlink Mini, and RDP Over Tailscale
I work across multiple locations. Scotland, England, client sites, my campervan, and sometimes Europe. That means I need a setup that travels without compromise. A proper second screen, a decent keyboard, and access to my…
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Opening Up Sponsorship on My Blog
Sometimes I get messages asking if I take sponsors. It’s not something I had considered but after some thought, it makes sense. I’m opening up a few sponsorship slots on the blog. A quick bit…
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Microsoft Agent Framework: The Complete Series
Last updated: 28 July 2026 I’ve been building out an AI agent, Iron Mind AI, a personal trainer agent, incrementally using the Microsoft Agent Framework. Each post in this series adds a new capability: function…
