This is my place on the internet where I express my thoughts on software engineering, take notes, share knowledge, advocate for best practices, write articles on topics I'm passionate about, occasionally rant about things, and share my creative projects.https://www.lloydatkinson.net/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2025/motivation-in-an-absurd-system/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2025/motivation-in-an-absurd-system/The struggle to find meaning in meaningless work. - Tagged: Philosophy, RantTue, 13 May 2025 01:21:40 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2025/comparing-git-mirror-options/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2025/comparing-git-mirror-options/A brief review of my experience self-hosting Git mirrors with GitWeb, cgit, and Forgejo - Tagged: Git, Source Control, HomelabSun, 23 Mar 2025 19:52:45 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/year-in-review/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/year-in-review/Reflecting on my year - Tagged: Year in review, Holidays, Gardening, ProgrammingMon, 30 Dec 2024 01:52:01 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/grafana-with-microsoft-sql-server/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/grafana-with-microsoft-sql-server/A short example of using Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server, and Docker Compose - Tagged: Containers, Grafana, Microsoft SQL ServerFri, 22 Nov 2024 21:47:59 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/stupid-problems-require-stupid-solutions-cloudflare-is-breaking-my-svgs/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/stupid-problems-require-stupid-solutions-cloudflare-is-breaking-my-svgs/Fixing problems that shouldn't exist - Tagged: Cloudflare, SVGFri, 20 Sep 2024 18:19:34 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/some-thoughts-as-i-sit-here-in-another-standup/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/some-thoughts-as-i-sit-here-in-another-standup/What is the software industry playing at? - Tagged: Rant, Agile, Software ManagementMon, 20 May 2024 07:46:24 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/frictions-and-complexities-of-simple-bash-scripts/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/frictions-and-complexities-of-simple-bash-scripts/Bash scripts (or any type of script) can become unwieldy, fragile, and difficult to maintain - Tagged: Linux, Bash, Automation, Infrastructure as Code, HomelabMon, 13 May 2024 11:16:43 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/the-dark-mode-lobby/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/the-dark-mode-lobby/When being insufferable about screen brightness substitutes for having a personality - Tagged: Rant, Skepticism, We live in a societyFri, 16 Feb 2024 15:40:25 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/mastodon/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2024/mastodon/I made an account on Mastodon - Tagged: MastodonFri, 09 Feb 2024 15:35:14 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/year-in-review/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/year-in-review/My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in review, Love, MarriageSat, 30 Dec 2023 01:52:01 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/this-years-christmas-quiz/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/this-years-christmas-quiz/I continued the tradition I started in 2021 of creating a fun Christmas project - Tagged: Christmas, Music, Astro, React, Netlify, Azure Table StorageMon, 25 Dec 2023 00:55:47 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/migrating-my-site-to-cloudflare/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/migrating-my-site-to-cloudflare/Google exiting the domain registrar business, Netlify performance lagging... - Tagged: Cloudflare, Netlify, Hosting, Performance, Networking, InternetTue, 05 Dec 2023 23:01:20 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/i-got-married/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/i-got-married/Mr and Mrs Atkinson - Tagged: Marriage, LoveSat, 05 Aug 2023 16:00:00 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/favour-typescript-types-over-interfaces/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/favour-typescript-types-over-interfaces/The case for almost always favouring the type keyword over the interface keyword - Tagged: TypeScript, Type TheoryMon, 01 May 2023 23:09:38 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/from-success-to-disbandment-impact-of-poor-management-on-a-talented-team/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/from-success-to-disbandment-impact-of-poor-management-on-a-talented-team/How mismanagement at the organisation level caused the best team I've been in to disband. - Tagged: Rant, Burning Out, Team CultureFri, 31 Mar 2023 21:42:03 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/consistent-kebab-cased-controller-routes-in-aspnet-core/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2023/consistent-kebab-cased-controller-routes-in-aspnet-core/Ensuring no capital letters in your routes and using kebab casing. - Tagged: .NET, ASP.NET Core, C#Tue, 28 Feb 2023 14:08:26 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/year-in-review/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/year-in-review/My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in reviewFri, 30 Dec 2022 01:52:01 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/creating-a-christmas-music-quiz-game/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/creating-a-christmas-music-quiz-game/I continued the tradition I started in 2021 of creating a fun Christmas project - Tagged: Christmas, Music, Astro, React, Netlify, AzureSun, 25 Dec 2022 00:47:35 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/scheduling-webhook-and-api-calls-with-github-actions/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/scheduling-webhook-and-api-calls-with-github-actions/Integrate with CI/CD builds and automations on a schedule - Tagged: GitHub, CI/CD, Webhooks, SchedulingSat, 03 Dec 2022 02:59:56 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/consider-disabling-browser-push-notifications-on-family-and-friends-devices/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/consider-disabling-browser-push-notifications-on-family-and-friends-devices/A terrible user-hostile browser feature is being misused, surprising no one. - Tagged: Security, Privacy, Dark Patterns, Modern WebThu, 01 Dec 2022 02:53:09 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/how-to-prevent-a-duplicated-canvas-when-using-p5-and-react-strict-mode/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/how-to-prevent-a-duplicated-canvas-when-using-p5-and-react-strict-mode/The correct way to prevent a duplicated canvas that occurs during development time - Tagged: React, React Hooks, P5Tue, 25 Oct 2022 22:18:32 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/tiny-projects-currency-conversion-table/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/tiny-projects-currency-conversion-table/Part of my "Tiny Projects" series. A quick and simple table to convert between Pound and Złoty currencies. - Tagged: Tiny Projects, Currency, Astro, TypeScriptFri, 14 Oct 2022 00:42:40 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/powershell-npm-scripts-and-silently-dropped-arguments/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/powershell-npm-scripts-and-silently-dropped-arguments/Are you passing arguments to NPM scripts from Powershell and finding some of them are not being passed? Here's why. - Tagged: PowerShell, Node, NPM, CLITue, 11 Oct 2022 22:19:23 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/technologies-i-dont-want-to-work-with-again/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/technologies-i-dont-want-to-work-with-again/Sometimes some tools, frameworks, or languages aren't that great. Some are badly designed and were never a good fit - Tagged: Rant, Technical DebtFri, 09 Sep 2022 11:21:54 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/default-exports-in-javascript-modules-are-terrible/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/default-exports-in-javascript-modules-are-terrible/Default exports lead to mismatched and confusing names. Named exports should be used instead. - Tagged: JavaScript, TypeScript, RantThu, 01 Sep 2022 10:05:01 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/an-article-i-wrote-featured-on-githubs-youtube-channel/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/an-article-i-wrote-featured-on-githubs-youtube-channel/An article I wrote on usage of Git unexpectedly featured on YouTube - Tagged: GitHub, Git, YouTubeMon, 15 Aug 2022 21:58:36 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/should-you-squash-merge-or-merge-commit/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/should-you-squash-merge-or-merge-commit/To squash your commits or merge them as they are? There's advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. - Tagged: Git, Source ControlFri, 05 Aug 2022 22:44:31 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-search-component-with-preact-and-fuse-for-astro/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/writing-a-fuzzy-search-component-with-preact-and-fuse-for-astro/How I implemented a generic search component in Preact and Fuse for use with but not limited to Astro - Tagged: Preact, Fuse, Astro, String metrics, Fuzzy Search, ReactMon, 25 Jul 2022 10:41:35 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/debugging-responsive-css-breakpoints-with-a-helper/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/debugging-responsive-css-breakpoints-with-a-helper/Creating a small CSS helper to highlight active media query breakpoints - Tagged: Responsive Design, CSS, Tailwind, styled-components, CSS-in-JSSat, 23 Jul 2022 02:32:26 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/typing-unknown-objects-in-typescript-with-the-record-type/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/typing-unknown-objects-in-typescript-with-the-record-type/Use the Record type for objects with unknown properties. Work with, not against, TypeScript. - Tagged: TypeScript, Record Types, ConfigurationWed, 20 Jul 2022 22:38:13 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/introducing-astro-snipcart/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/introducing-astro-snipcart/Build workflows and processes with Finite State Machines to reduce code complexity - Tagged: E-Commerce, Snipcart, Astro, TypeScript, Open SourceThu, 26 May 2022 22:01:11 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/design-system-component-as-is-props/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/design-system-component-as-is-props/Designing flexible and semantically correct design systems with polymorphic components - Tagged: Design Systems, TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Styled-Components, Vue, React, AstroTue, 12 Apr 2022 22:38:43 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/one-teams-eight-points-is-another-teams-two-points/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/one-teams-eight-points-is-another-teams-two-points/Storypointing is a pointless exercise many agile/scrum teams follow - Tagged: Rant, Five Whys, Agile, Critical Thinking, No Estimates, Software ManagementTue, 29 Mar 2022 14:23:56 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/modelling-workflows-with-finite-state-machines-in-dotnet/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/modelling-workflows-with-finite-state-machines-in-dotnet/Build workflows and processes with Finite State Machines to reduce code complexity - Tagged: .NET, C#, Finite State Machines, Workflows, StatelessSat, 26 Feb 2022 21:15:19 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/my-thoughts-on-what-i-want-to-do-as-a-software-developer/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/my-thoughts-on-what-i-want-to-do-as-a-software-developer/My thoughts and reflections on what I want to do as a software developer and how I want to do it - Tagged: Passion, Creativity, Rant, Burning OutThu, 17 Feb 2022 22:42:53 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/automate-pull-request-labels-based-on-changed-files-with-actions/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/automate-pull-request-labels-based-on-changed-files-with-actions/Using GitHub Actions to add labels conditionally to a PR based on which files and directories changed - Tagged: GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Pull requestsWed, 16 Feb 2022 00:18:28 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/static-site-redirects-with-astro/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/static-site-redirects-with-astro/Generating page redirects at build time for static sites without client side code while maintaining SEO. Redirect visitors to your latest post! - Tagged: JAMStack, Astro, Static Sites, Redirect to latest post, Meta refreshTue, 15 Feb 2022 18:39:52 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/going-further-with-typescript-part-1/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2022/going-further-with-typescript-part-1/Mapped types are one of the many powerful types available in TypeScript. I demonstrate how to use them to create two new utility types; Prefix and Suffix. - Tagged: TypeScript, Type Theory, Mapped Types, Advanced TypescriptSat, 05 Feb 2022 02:03:34 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/list-replication-in-fsharp/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/list-replication-in-fsharp/A small experiment with F# and list replication - Tagged: Functional Programming, F#, Hacker Rank, Algorithms, KataFri, 17 Dec 2021 02:15:00 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/essential-dotnet-libraries-i-use/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/essential-dotnet-libraries-i-use/.NET libraries I highly recommend for probably every project - Tagged: Software Design, .NETSat, 06 Nov 2021 08:11:46 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/always-ask-why/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/always-ask-why/Asking "Why?" leads to better software designs - Tagged: Critical Thinking, Software Design, Five Whys, RantSat, 30 Oct 2021 04:00:32 GMThttps://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/first-post/https://www.lloydatkinson.net/posts/2021/first-post/This is the first post on the site. Isn't that super interesting? Anyway, have a good read. - Tagged: First PostThu, 28 Oct 2021 03:04:00 GMT