Posts Tagged "Engineering"

I recently earned the CCAR-F certification through a great opportunity at Entelect, which gave me a reason to look back on a year of heavy AI tool use. Here's what I've been reaching for, and the habits that make working with these tools productive.

I was on the fence about the long-term value of AI coding tools - until I used them for modernisation and migration work. Here I share why existing codebases are such a powerful source of context for LLMs, and a couple of prompting tips that have helped me get better results.

This post explores using AOT compilation features of .NET to improve performance for AWS Lambda functions. Find a template to use yourself inside as well!

I finally launched it - but it's far from done. I share some of my learnings and things that worked or I would do differently in this post.

A short update on the planned infrastructure for ParenTime - my app build

The term API gets thrown around loosely in different contexts, and I wanted a useful resource to share with others to explain it - in my own way.

The .NET Aspire experience has been great! Developing for native AWS resources with .NET made simpler with Aspire.

Sharing a bit of my journey in a building an app for myself and my wife. This might help others aiming to build their own app, or find the app I'm building useful for themselves!