2025: Year in Review
Reflecting on my year - Tagged: Year in review, Gardening, Programming, Portugal, Poland, Slovakia
Lloyd Atkinson's Articles
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.
Latest posts
Motivation in an Absurd System
The struggle to find meaning in meaningless work. - Tagged: Philosophy, Rant
Comparing Git Mirror Options
A brief review of my experience self-hosting Git mirrors with GitWeb, cgit, and Forgejo - Tagged: Git, Homelab
2024: Year in Review
Reflecting on my year - Tagged: Year in review, Gardening, Programming, Norway, Wales, Bulgaria
Containerised Microsoft SQL Server With Grafana
A short example of using Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server, and Docker Compose - Tagged: Containers, Grafana, Microsoft SQL Server
Stupid Problems Require Stupid Solutions (Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs)
Fixing problems that shouldn't exist - Tagged: Cloudflare, SVG
Some Thoughts As I Sit Here in Another Standup
What is the software industry playing at? - Tagged: Rant, Agile, Software Management
Frictions and Complexities of "Simple" Scripts
Bash scripts (or any type of script) can become unwieldy, fragile, and difficult to maintain - Tagged: Linux, Bash, Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Homelab
Laughing Off the Dark Mode Lobby
When being insufferable about screen brightness substitutes for having a personality - Tagged: Rant, Skepticism
2023: Year in Review
My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in review, Love, Marriage, Poland
This Year's Christmas Quiz
I continued the tradition I started in 2021 of creating a fun Christmas project - Tagged: Christmas, Astro, React, Netlify, Azure Table Storage
Migrating My Site From Google Domains and Netlify to Cloudflare
Google exiting the domain registrar business, Netlify performance lagging... - Tagged: Cloudflare, Netlify, Hosting, Performance, Networking, Internet
I Got Married ❤️
Mr and Mrs Atkinson - Tagged: Marriage, Love
Favour TypeScript Types Over Interfaces
The case for almost always favouring the type keyword over the interface keyword - Tagged: TypeScript, Type Theory
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, Burnout, Team Culture
Consistent Kebab Cased Controller Routes in ASP.NET Core
Ensuring no capital letters in your routes and using kebab casing. - Tagged: .NET, ASP.NET Core, C#
2022: Year in Review
My thoughts and ideas about my year - Tagged: Year in review, Poland
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, Azure
Scheduling Webhook and API Calls With GitHub Actions
Integrate with CI/CD builds and automations on a schedule - Tagged: GitHub, CI/CD, Webhooks, Scheduling
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
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, P5
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, TypeScript
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.js, NPM, CLI
Technologies I Don't 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 Debt
Default Exports in JavaScript Modules Are Terrible
Default exports lead to mismatched and confusing names. Named exports should be used instead. - Tagged: JavaScript, TypeScript, Rant
An Article I Wrote Featured on GitHub's YouTube Channel!
An article I wrote on usage of Git unexpectedly featured on YouTube - Tagged: GitHub, Git, YouTube
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
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, Algorithms, Fuzzy Search
Debugging Responsive CSS Breakpoints With a Helper
Creating a small CSS helper to highlight active media query breakpoints - Tagged: Responsive Design, CSS, Tailwind, CSS-in-JS
Typing Unknown Objects in TypeScript With Record Types
Use the Record type for objects with unknown properties. Work with, not against, TypeScript. - Tagged: TypeScript, Record Types, Configuration
Flexible Design System Components With "as/is" Props
Designing flexible and semantically correct design systems with polymorphic components - Tagged: Design Systems, TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Vue, React, Astro
Eight Points for One Team Is Two Points for Another Team
Storypointing is a pointless exercise many agile/scrum teams follow - Tagged: Rant, Agile, Critical Thinking, No Estimates, Software Management
Modelling Workflows With Finite State Machines in .NET
Build workflows and processes with Finite State Machines to reduce code complexity - Tagged: .NET, C#, Finite State Machines, Workflows, Stateless
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, Burnout
Automate Pull Request Labels Based on Changed Files With GitHub 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 requests
Static Site Redirects With Astro (or Any Static Site Builder)
Generating page redirects at build time for static sites without client-side code while maintaining SEO. Redirect visitors to your latest post! - Tagged: Astro, Static Sites, HTML
Going Further With TypeScript - Part 1: Mapped Types
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
List Replication in F#
A small experiment with F# and list replication - Tagged: Functional Programming, F#, HackerRank, Algorithms, Kata
Essential .NET Libraries I Use
.NET libraries I highly recommend for probably every project - Tagged: Software Design, .NET
Always Ask "Why?"
Asking "Why?" leads to better software designs - Tagged: Critical Thinking, Software Design, Five Whys, Rant
The First Post on the Site
This is the first post on the site. Isn't that super interesting? Anyway, have a good read. - Tagged: First Post