Andrew Cairns - Software Development Blog

Everything in your repo is part of the prompt.

Our DX survey says the feedback loop is too slow.

The growing gap between the code your team ships and the code your team understands.

When eager payload generation exposed a years-old dependency on ORM lifecycle hooks.

Discover how mutable events caused hidden inconsistencies during a microservice extraction.

Explore how a native pipe operator could improve code readability and composition in PHP.

Learn how to implement Branch by Abstraction pattern effectively in legacy system modernization.

First installment of the devlog introducing the Profiles Bounded Context RFC

Discover Primitive Obsession in code: recognize symptoms, understand implications, and learn effective fixes with value objects.

A lot can be learned about software development by playing retro games.

In this article, I introduce a form of Accidental Complexity I've been referring to as Accidental Intent Cancelling.