Programming

BDD, AI Agents, and the Most Fun I've Had Coding in 15 Years

For 15 years I've practiced Behavior Driven Development, focusing on what to build rather than how to build it. It made me a better developer but it also made me indifferent to most new technologies. Then AI coding agents came along and everything changed.

Why is the async keyword needed in JavaScript?

Last week a colleague asked me what the purpose of the async keyword was in JavaScript. Not because he didn't know how to use async/await. He was wondering why the async keyword was needed to use await. This set me off on a quest to find the answer. To avoid beating around the bush: its purpose is backwards compatibility.

Exception order when awaiting multiple async tasks in C#

A C# has-been returns to C# and experiments with this new hip thing called async/await and how that relates to execution order and exceptions.

Responsibly Responsive Web Design at Expressen

When building a new version of the news site Expressen.se the team hesitated to use responsive web design. Here's why and what we ended up doing.

Notes from learning Go – the basics

I recently decided to learn Go. As in Go the programming language, also known as golang. These are my notes from doing so. In the form of code.

Syntax highlighting JSON with C#

A not so simple C# method that makes JSON look pretty.

Remote branches with TortoiseGit

Git makes branching easy. Coming from other version control systems the work flow isn't always as easy to understand though. Here's what I've found works well when using Tortoise Git.

Extending Phantom

The DRY obsession

The Don't Repeat Yourself principle is important. But it's not the only important principle or consideration for software design. Like all good things it should be used with caution and afterthought.

Getting property and method names using static reflection in C#