Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 09/06/2026I've spent a bit of time playing with Fable 5 on the train home this evening. Early indicators are that it's a really, really good model. Need more time to experiment with this. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 05/06/2026I tried to get a decision signed off recently. I failed. There are always loads of reasons to say no. The real question is, what do we need to say yes? I never gave them that. Three minutes: joestead.codes/posts/everyo...joestead.codesA room full of right answers, and we were all wrongA memory leak on a missile was never a problem, and what that taught me about giving stakeholders the one fact that makes a decision decidable 020
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/06/2026I'm sure a lot of you, like me, have watched your coding agent grep its way around your codebase, burning tokens it actually needed for the real problem. Turns out there's a tidy fix, courtesy of @jetbrains.com , what do you think? joestead.codes/posts/jetbra...joestead.codesStop letting your AI agent grep its way around your codebaseHow wiring the JetBrains MCP server into Claude Code gives your agent proper code navigation and refactoring, and stops it burning tokens reading half your repo 042
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/02/2026I've recently had to use MS Teams, so here's my regular gripe. MS Teams creates silos, not collaborative work. It's an awful platform and does not facilitate an effective, collaborative, online work space. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 06/02/2026The iRobot/Roomba customer support is possibly the worst in the world. On the one hand, I love having these robot vacuums/mops to clean up after my dog that sheds hair constantly. On the other hand, I wish I went with a competitor of theres. Absolute joke 000
Reposted by Joe SteadGrafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Say 👋 to ChatOps that actually works: the Grafana Cloud app for Slack. Ask about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate: grafana.com/blog/chatops-that-actua… 011
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 20/01/2026I genuinely think SQL might be the best bit of technology ever. I'm not very good at it, but it just works, for so many things, and if it doesn't work, it's probably because you're wrong 1143
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/01/2026HUGE bug fix in the IntelliJ platform for people use Claude code inside the embedded terminal. Can't wait for this to be shipped in the next update. Nice job @jetbrains.com youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-2...youtrack.jetbrains.com 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026I'm going to be in London on the 20th Jan for the JetBrains fintech day (lp.jetbrains.com/london-finte...) Will I see anyone I know there 👀lp.jetbrains.comLondon FinTech Day 2026 by JetBrainsJoin us in London to explore how JetBrains IDEs and AI tools are helping fintech enterprises build and secure AI-assisted engineering practices. 310
Reposted by Joe SteadJetBrains @jetbrains.com · 09/01/2026Explore modern fintech engineering with JetBrains at London FinTech Day 2026. 🗓️ Jan 27 ✔️ Gain insights about JetBrains’ product roadmaps ✔️ Connect with fintech and engineering leaders ✔️ Discover insights about AI and the future of engineering in fintech Join us! jb.gg/jetbrains_night_uk 054
Reposted by Joe SteadBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026There we go. That there’s a headline.ft.comWho’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as TwitterA look inside Elon Musk’s big tent 153134593540
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026I've been building my first claude subagent/skill set to help with technical discovery of projects. This isn't saving me hours of effort, it's saving me days. 210
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 25/11/2025"New pomodoro technique. Work until you hit your AI limits then take a break" - @json.codes 010
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 24/11/2025@toddhgardner.com @trackjs.com Hey! Your pricing table alignment is off when using Firefox and the ticks. It's making my eye twitch :) 130
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 18/11/2025If GCP goes down today/tomorrow it would mean that the major cloud providers all had an outage in the past month. AWS was down Oct 19th, Azure was the Oct 29th. Cloudflare is right now. I kind of want GCP to go down to hear all of the opinions from "experts" 001
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/11/2025When using Claude Code, I think it's important to give it a useful CLAUDE.md file so you can get the best results (and character) 000
Reposted by Joe SteadJonathan Channon @jonathanchannon.com · 13/11/2025Just released Carter v10.0.0 🚀 Now supports .NET 10 🎉 Uses latest FluentValidation version 🎉 Adds new MapFormPost<T> extension 🎉 Supports latest EF Core Still: allows you to group your routes provides request validation provides content negotiation www.nuget.org/packages/Car... #dotnet #csharpnuget.orgCarter 10.0.0Carter is framework that is a thin layer of extension methods and functionality over ASP.NET Core allowing code to be more explicit and most importantly more enjoyable. 387
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/11/2025Claude continues to impress me. It's so good at doing the "boring" bit of software dev. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 22/10/2025Today is a day filled with first world problems. One of my robots keeps ending it's task prematurely and I don't know why, and my notebook is out of battery. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/10/2025Is Python a language that everyone made up to troll me? It is a nonsense language 020
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 02/10/2025I think the tribalism over programming languages is irrelevant and means nothing, that said, I hate reading Python 130
Reposted by Joe SteadCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak 13382461653
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/10/2025I start a new job on Monday, so today I decided to rearrange my office. New job, new me. Wait no. New job, new office layout 010
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 23/09/2025I don't understand the obsession with dark themes on things. I like working in well lit areas and light text on a dark background is just awful to read. What am I missing? 231
Reposted by Joe SteadRob Bowley @robbowley.net · 09/08/2025Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry. 1/6blog.robbowley.netIs AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowley 3257
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/08/2025Azure Functions do not make sense to me compared to AWS Lambda. I know they're different, but still, it doesn't fit my mental model of a serverless application. Anyway, can't wait to go cut the grass tonight 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/08/2025gRPC coming in next week. Architecture and tech modernisation is officially in full swing. It's been 4 months, but we now have some infrastructure as code, some automated tests (up from 0), and some observability. Small, but positive steps. 110
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025Tried booking a hotel Thursday-Sunday, no rooms, Thursday-Monday, they have rooms though. Make it make sense 110
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025I've really been enjoying using Claude Code the past few weeks. It's been able to identify problematic areas of a large solution for me at ease, and it's great at verifying it's output too. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025I was hoping this was possible, and it is. Finally a sensible, central place for onboarding info, documentation, standards docs etc. at the heart of where devs spend most of their time. docs.github.com/en/organizat...docs.github.comCustomizing your organization's profile - GitHub DocsYou can share information about your organization by customizing your organization's profile. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 16/07/2025I don't know how I wasn't aware of Kotlin Multiplatform. I have a free weekend for the first time in months coming up, it's going to be raining too, I know what I'm going to be doing. (Probably odd jobs around the house) www.jetbrains.com/kotlin-multi...jetbrains.comKotlin Multiplatform – Build Cross-Platform AppsKotlin Multiplatform is a technology for reusing up to 100% of your code across Android, iOS, web, and desktop, with Compose Multiplatform for shared UIs. 010
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 16/06/2025I had an issue today and for the first time ever the solution was an old blog post of mine. I never write blog posts. Quite satisfying 020
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 02/06/2025More and more often I find myself doing something in c# and wishing it was typescript instead. 7 or 8 years ago I would have never thought of anything like this. 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 30/05/2025Do you still need to set `AZURE_EXPERIMENTAL_ENABLE_ACTIVITY_SOURCE` to get Open Telemetry data from Azure SDK for .NET? The only info I can find on this is a 4 year old blog post devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/in...devblogs.microsoft.comIntroducing experimental OpenTelemetry support in the Azure SDK for .NETIn this article, we look at our current effort to integrate OpenTelemetry with the new Azure SDK client libraries for .NET. 001
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 28/05/2025Azure isn't a developer friendly cloud platform. It's far from it 131
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 06/05/2025I know we got timezones terribly wrong, but I think there's still time to agree on a standardised volume standard for TV/film. Let's get the balance right between background sound and everything else 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/05/2025My yearly thought of wondering if I should invest in Air Conditioning for the house has started really early this year 000
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 24/04/2025So a question for people who are familiar with Azure. A simple API that I want to scale horizontally - Azure App Service or Azure Container Service? I'm leaning towards the simplicity of App Service, not sure what adding in containers really gives me 000
Reposted by Joe SteadCorey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 16/04/2025www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/a... I don’t know if it’s “half,” but yeah. A number of my clients would.theregister.comAWS: Customers would flee Azure if licensing costs were fair: Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair 1252
Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/04/2025Does anyone else remember in 2018 when they had ads running during the world cup which were a washing machine talking to a dishwasher and it was blockchain related? Best ads ever. No idea what they were selling 110
Reposted by Joe SteadJust Vervaart @datajournalist.nl · 10/02/2025This is really clever and fun! @paulbutler.org found a way to hide text 'in' an emoji by hacking the way unicode works. paulbutler.org/2025/smuggli... He also build a tool to encode en decode your own messages. 😎󠅇󠅟󠅧󠄑󠄐󠅃󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄐󠅑󠅢󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅕󠄐󠅓󠅜󠅕󠅦󠅕󠅢󠄐󠅟󠅞󠅕󠄐󠅤󠅘󠅑󠅤󠄐󠅖󠅙󠅗󠅥󠅢󠅕󠅔󠄐󠄹󠄐󠅘󠅙󠅔󠄐󠅑󠄐󠅝󠅕󠅣󠅣󠅑󠅗󠅕󠄐󠅙󠅞󠄐󠅝󠅩󠄐󠄲󠅜󠅥󠅕󠅣󠅛󠅩󠄐󠅠󠅟󠅣󠅤󠄯󠄐󠄻󠅥󠅔󠅟󠄗󠅣󠄐󠅤󠅟󠄐󠅩󠅟󠅥󠄑 emoji-encoder.vercel.app?mode=decode 44814