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Joe Stead

@joestead.codes
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 09/06/2026
I'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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 05/06/2026
I 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...
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A room full of right answers, and we were all wrong
A 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/06/2026
I'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...
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Stop letting your AI agent grep its way around your codebase
How 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/05/2026
It's May. I can't believe Starmer would do this to us.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/02/2026
I'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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 06/02/2026
The 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 03/02/2026
@jonathanchannon.com Yo. Done much with Dapr?
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Grafana @grafana.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Say 👋 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…
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 20/01/2026
I 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/01/2026
HUGE 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 12/01/2026
I'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 👀
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London FinTech Day 2026 by JetBrains
Join us in London to explore how JetBrains IDEs and AI tools are helping fintech enterprises build and secure AI-assisted engineering practices.
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JetBrains @jetbrains.com · 09/01/2026
Explore 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
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
There we go. That there’s a headline.
ft.com
Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter
A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 07/01/2026
I'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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 15/12/2025
I do not understand why so many people use tailwind.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 25/11/2025
"New pomodoro technique. Work until you hit your AI limits then take a break" - @json.codes
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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 :)
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 19/11/2025
I have made Claude so unbelievably British
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 18/11/2025
If 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"
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/11/2025
When 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)
Claude code saying "Ah right! Bollocks"
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Jonathan Channon @jonathanchannon.com · 13/11/2025
Just 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 #csharp
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Carter 10.0.0
Carter 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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/11/2025
Claude continues to impress me. It's so good at doing the "boring" bit of software dev.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 22/10/2025
Today 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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/10/2025
Is Python a language that everyone made up to troll me? It is a nonsense language
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 05/10/2025
RIP my fence. 2023-2025
A fallen fence in my garden
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 02/10/2025
I think the tribalism over programming languages is irrelevant and means nothing, that said, I hate reading Python
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/10/2025
I 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 23/09/2025
I 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?
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/09/2025
Back on the market for a new job. 2025 is going well
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Rob Bowley @robbowley.net · 09/08/2025
Most code is crap. Most developers are mediocre. In the age of AI-assisted coding, that’s a problem – for them and for the industry. 1/6
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Is AI about to expose just how mediocre most developers are? | Rob Bowley
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/08/2025
Azure 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/08/2025
gRPC 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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025
K6 is pretty cool
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025
Tried booking a hotel Thursday-Sunday, no rooms, Thursday-Monday, they have rooms though. Make it make sense
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025
I'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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 17/07/2025
I 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...
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Customizing your organization's profile - GitHub Docs
You can share information about your organization by customizing your organization's profile.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 16/07/2025
I 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...
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Kotlin Multiplatform – Build Cross-Platform Apps
Kotlin Multiplatform is a technology for reusing up to 100% of your code across Android, iOS, web, and desktop, with Compose Multiplatform for shared UIs.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 16/06/2025
I 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 02/06/2025
More 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.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 30/05/2025
Do 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...
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Introducing experimental OpenTelemetry support in the Azure SDK for .NET
In this article, we look at our current effort to integrate OpenTelemetry with the new Azure SDK client libraries for .NET.
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 28/05/2025
Azure isn't a developer friendly cloud platform. It's far from it
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 06/05/2025
I 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 01/05/2025
My yearly thought of wondering if I should invest in Air Conditioning for the house has started really early this year
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 24/04/2025
So 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
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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 16/04/2025
www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/a... I don’t know if it’s “half,” but yeah. A number of my clients would.
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AWS: 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 13/04/2025
Does 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
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Just Vervaart @datajournalist.nl · 10/02/2025
This 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
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Joe Stead @joestead.codes · 11/04/2025
Just my wonderful dog having a quick break mid walk
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