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So, it’s finally official that Microsoft are acquiring GitHub. Overall, I think this is a positive strategic move for all concerned, but time will tell. »

Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last month, you will have heard of something called GDPR. The irony of getting so many emails due to a law designed to reduce the amount of spam you receive is a good example of the cobra effect. »

GitHub pages is a great static-site hosting resource but if you want to use it with a custom domain name and support HTTPS then you need to take some extra steps. »

It often comes up in tech circles that engineers and founders ask for advice on what non-technical books to read that aren’t simply fiction. »

Just in time for summer (at least for those of us in the northern hemisphere), there is a new minor release of ASP. »

Do you think you could learn how to program from a child? I recently found a book on programming in BASIC, written by an eleven-year-old and it is really rather good. »

Edit: VSTS is now called Azure DevOps but it’s essentially the same thing with a different UI. I have written an Azure DevOps guide series here. »

It’s easy to get desensitised to monitoring alerts if there are too many of them and then you get stuck in a rut of failure fatigue. »