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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 01/10/2026

I've built and rebuilt this "thing" over the past 2.5 years ~4 times. It's finally taking real shape as a thing that other people will be able to use. A code / entire platform inspection tool - that builds code graphs and supports agents with context via MCP. "What if SonarQube was useful?"

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Small hobby project off the side of a hobby project. I'm doing some game preservation/restoration on GTA1. 32/64 bit support, Mac/Linux port, modernized controls and camera. Here's a native Mac port...

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 22/08/2026

The worst metalcore band you know announces a new album. (ATG is being fun as ever)

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/08/2026

How we know David is working on a game

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Making @astro.build work with C# is so damn cool.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Here's a work-in-progress video of C# support for @astro.build Obviously requires a .NET runtime at build-time, but it's install path is just a basic NPM package, that runs a sidecar server containing Roslyn to support all the same hot-reload / static dev stuff that we love Astro for.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Going out of my way to make sure that the integration is as idiomatic as possible.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 28/07/2026

Server rendering, client side rendering, hooks, ESM imports, but it binds directly to C# and generates TypeScript type definitions for all your server side code transparently. It's really cool. Coming soon!

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/07/2026

Hard relate - but I'm optimistic that normal creative people can outlast the ghouls that feast and move onto the next thing each time. Hard to get excited to make things in the mulch machine. Had an espresso depresso moment the other day about this yet still.. from a chat...

I do think that honestly modern technology is magic though. We're enabling more people to connect, to make music, to produce art, to generally be heard than ever. There are weird second order effects of scaling humanity and not all of them will be good, and not all of them will go where we expect. But the things we actually have today were literally things I was dreaming of in the mid-90s, and I don't think we're beyond wrestling that kernel back from the ghouls that have attached themselves to exploitation for the whole of human history. It's important we don't give up. I will forever be an optimist because I never will ever take for granted being around at the same time as all the music and people I adore, even while the world is full of conflict and is objectively uneven. It always has been.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Renewed as my favourite corporate honourific. 7 years an MVP. Thanks to everyone that always comes out to see my talks. Makes me feel less alone in the world.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Love it when I find high value code.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 25/06/2026

Getting all the new silly freebies ready for conf season.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/06/2026

Got into the habit of memorialising my talks with key artwork because, eh, why not be extra. Finally worked out how I wanted to get this one on a shirt. I'll probably have a few of these at confs coming up, and if people like em, I'll get em online to buy at cost price.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 31/05/2026

If you're at DevSum this week I have an extremely limited set of t-shirts to give away. They were samples that one day I'll get around to putting out properly. In red and black. First come, first served.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 29/05/2026

OpenTelemetry buries your code under SetTag/AddEvent noise. Sidemark lets telemetry ride along in your comments: write //? and it becomes the Activity call at build time — source untouched, IL identical. C# via Roslyn + MSBuild. github.com/davidwhitney...

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 09/05/2026

Last few weeks of conferences and events have been punishing on the body, but soothing for the soul. Woke up to an email from an incredibly kind attendee who took the time to write to me - this is why I write - to feel less alone in the work. Techorama on Wednesday, come out :)

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 06/05/2026

I really love what OpenTelemetry is, but I really hate how it makes codebases look - caked with instrumentation logic. I'm building out a C# library to make it more ergonomic. I expect it's gonna be like marmite for people. Sidemark - inspired by Wallaby.js' "Live Comments", but for OTel.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 01/05/2026

Full CLR interop for my experimental TypeScript compiler to the CLR is now working. This is pretty fun.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 21/04/2026

AND I CONTROL YOU (To the tune of Mr Self Destruct)

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 21/04/2026

Zoo with a view still delivers

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 17/03/2026

I hate that I know this is almost already a thing

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 17/03/2026

I did it, I finally found a way to make two entire communities hate me. Never JavasScript .NET people 🤝 People that Hate Microsoft And it's beautiful.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 17/03/2026

I mean, sounds pretty like path tracing to me, pushed through a model.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 13/03/2026

I've been working on diagramming tools to map large systems. The visualisations are for exploration, and the machine readable variant is to help large scale change. I asked an agent to reverse engineer a spec that works in my ecosystem so it might work in yours. gist.github.com/davidwhitney...

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 06/03/2026

Andrew Tate working on that Spec Ops: The Line sequel we didn't realise was coming.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 03/03/2026

Impossible to not over-commit to the bit.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/02/2026

Microsoft hedging against the US government with this one.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/02/2026

Maybe the next movement we need is something akin to "Reliable Computing". The tools are here to stay, but a standard around "Human Designed" software. Vetted, reviewed, edited, cleaned up. Software that offers high standards of reliability and operability with externalised, executable specs.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 27/01/2026

Seriously, who did this. Hilarious.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 26/01/2026

Absurdist humour: Import a Korean Trifold for a pocket sized Windows RDP client ;)

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 21/01/2026

Working on a fun idea and sharing it to guilt me into finishing it. A modelling tool / deck builder hybrid game to try visualise how complexity creeps into systems.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 01/01/2026

Viva Emptiness. 2025 was a mostly kind year as we all tumble through the dystopia. Thanks to everyone that came to see me do the thing in 2025, the support means everything. All the love x

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 20/11/2025

0-Days Since Open-Source Exploitation Took Another Victim. Pay people for their work, so they can eat, and think, and continue to work.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 23/10/2025

I've been struggling through being really really ill at #HelloStavanger, so I've not been able to see many talks, but this looks right up my alley.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 10/10/2025

What is the most hallmark of holidays and why is it....

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 10/10/2025

A story in three parts. The comment in question: "Church burning party! Me first!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 08/09/2025

There is no better timezone than "Romance Daylight Time".

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/09/2025

Spotify is so unregulated someone is squatting on known but defunct bands for visibility.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 31/08/2025

20 years between these two photos - whilst I do my best to exist outside of space and time, I guess I can see my age finally 😂

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 29/08/2025

Commemerating new conference talks by being "back on my bullshit" with some fun new shirts

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 23/08/2025

Lol got banned from my first ever subreddit tonight. I actually thought I was being too polite.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/08/2025

In 2011 I came to a conference held in this hall in the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas that convinced me I could probably give the whole tech speaking thing a go. Perhaps it's idle sentimentality to take a photo of an empty convention centre hallway, but it feels important to me.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 16/08/2025

Incredible time at @kcdc.bsky.social this week - hope everyone had fun at my talks, had such a great time chatting to you all. Also, excellent conference adjacent chaos all round 🖤 Next...

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