Ian Wold

Topic: DevEx

2026

02.21
Looking Beyond GitHub
In the process of reevaluating my tools, GitHub now appears on the chopping block

2025

06.27
I Like Petite-Vue
Simplicity is good, focusing on what's necessary is better.
05.31
Book Club 4&5/2025: Incidents and Resiliency
Thinking more about responding to and preventing incidents

2024

12.31
It's Okay to be a Bit Techy in Your Gherkin
Gherkin tests are meant to be an abstraction over the code of automated tests to facilitate collaboration by all stakeholders, but that shouldn't mean that we banish any technical whiffs from them.
10.11
Guerrila DevEx Testing
Developer experience is subjective. Employ the 'hallway test' method to ascertain your code's quality.
09.30
I've Stopped Using Visual Studio
... mostly. And so can you!
02.15
It's Better to be Consistently Incorrect than Inconsistently Correct
On consistency in code and what it means for something to be 'incorrect'

2023

12.09
My (Continuing) Descent Into Madness
It started simply enough, when I asked myself if I should try an IDE other than Visual Studio. Mere months later, I'm now using a tiling window manager. This is the story of my (continuing) descent into madness.