Matt Lacey - Software Developer

If you're very unlucky and when trying to upload a new extension to the VSCode marketplace, you may get this error: "An item with the same key has already been added."

Automated (AI) powered code reviews are becoming increasingly popular and powerful.

Enshittifcation, as a term popularized by Cory Doctrow, has for many become a catch-all term for things generally getting worse.

It's common for people to refer to early versions of software as MVPs (Minimum Viable Products).

Updated Jan 7th 2026 -- see below If you build extensions for Visual Studio, you'll know that sometimes (frequently?

The cliché always used to be that "contributing to docs was a great way to get started in open source."

No answers.

TLDR: User groups were great.

I often hear that developers aren't keen on doing work to upgrade the frameworks/platforms/tools that they use (or the software they're building is using).

Following on from my recent post asking How much does start-up time matter when choosing a framework?

I guess it comes down to different people wanting different things.