The Mother of all Geeks

AI pair programming tools are landing in our IDEs promising turbo-charged productivity—but do they really deliver? In this post, I unpack where AI copilots shine, where they stumble, and how to make them actually useful in a real engineering team. Spoiler: it's not magic, and it's not replacing you.

Dependency Inversion isn't just about using a DI container—it's about controlling your dependencies instead of letting them control you. In this post, I unpack the "D" in SOLID with real-world examples of how it helps legacy code escape tight coupling and why you don’t need to worship the container gods to follow the principle.

Software entities should be open for extension, but closed for modification

Why SOLID and Clean Code Principles in .NET Core Are Still Your Best Friends