Brady Stroud Blog

I love GitButler's lanes and hated that every pull rewrote my pushed branches and reset my PRs.

A static site set a seven-day cache header on its images and they were still slow.

Our ducted aircon came with a dodgy app and zero HomeKit support.

My work throws off short-lived write-ups - investigations, plans, reports - and an AI agent turns each into an HTML page I publish with one command.

I built a small Swift menu bar application that lets you quickly turn IPv6 on or off for Wi-Fi.

I built a reusable agent skill that discovers how your project uses AI, writes targeted benchmarks, runs them across providers, and produces a comparison report.

I got sick of duplicating skills and agent instructions across tools, so I made .agents the source of truth and mapped everything else back to it.

My Mac ran out of storage overnight. macOS blamed "Documents" but the real culprit was a runaway AI coding tool snapshot.

A practical n8n automation that researches topics, analyzes recent blogs, generates new post ideas, drafts social content, and emails everything in one clean digest.

UI bugs are hard for AI agents to reproduce directly, but you can still debug fast by logging user actions to a file and letting AI inspect the evidence.

AI coding tools don't remove the need for good architecture - they amplify the cost of bad architecture.

GitHub Copilot has no public API for usage tracking.

Learn how to turn week-long refactors into 20-minute tasks using 15 AI agents working in parallel.

Automated Word to PDF conversion is harder than it looks.

OpenAI model names are confusing.

Fix the 'PowerShell session not found' error in VS Code by manually setting the PowerShell executable path.

Securely connect Windows VM apps to Mac-hosted APIs using SSH tunnels and dev certificates.

Run .NET Aspire in a Windows VM while leveraging macOS Docker daemon via SSH context.

Complete .NET MAUI setup guide for macOS.

Build clean .NET CLI apps with Cocona framework.

Companies combine your data for insights.

Use AI to build features fast, then replace with optimized code later.

Eliminate scattered null-checks in Blazor with loading guard components.

Choose the right mobile framework with this decision tree.

Transition from developer to management with 4 proven strategies.

Two months living and working in Strasbourg with SSW France.

Build cross-platform apps with one shared Blazor UI codebase.

A hands-on comparison of .NET MAUI and Flutter for cross-platform development.