Steve Fenton is a programmer, (hands-on) architect, and theory-y/human-centric manager mostly working around the .NET space. He enjoys creating software that makes a difference to people’s lives; such as mail transfer agents with zero-day threat detection or clinical decision support engines. Steve has been active in the whole DevOps life-cycle and enjoys coaching people on agile and lean methods (and the theories behind them). He also enjoys finding fractal principles; such as those found in monitoring and alerting, or in queuing theory.
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A Note From Steve
This is my personal journal where I store ideas, notes, and information to supplement my biological abilities. My interests are programming, psychology, philosophy and critical thinking, and the Oxford Comma. The journal largely covers the order software progressio and the families modum translitterandi, processus, and populus. I am also secretly S. M. Fenton the author of The Vanishing Room.
Recent Journals
You can review my full archive of journals, but the most recent entries are listed below.
- Where to Put Your TypeScript Type Annotations Posted in: Programming - I have long held fast to a basic principle of letting type inference do your work for you. That means…
- Real Life Performance Cost of compilation debug=”true” Posted in: Programming - There is a little setting in your ASP.NET Web.config file that sets compilation debug to true. If you debug your…
- Visual Studio Layout and Option Changes Posted in: Visual Studio - Inspired by the short video by Mads Kristensen (part of a series conceived by Microsoft's Misty Madonna)... I was inspired…
- Stand Away From the Edge: Thinking About Edge Workers Posted in: Programming - As today's Cloudflare outage rages on, with a multitude of services that depend on Cloudflare being knocked out of operation…
- Analytics are Lossy and That’s Okay Posted in: Analytics - This is the latest in my flurry of articles on analytics, which have all come from various questions and misconceptions…
- Chromium-Based Edge: The First Month Posted in: Browsers - Full disclosure. I'm about to discuss Microsoft browsers and I'm a Microsoft MVP. More importantly, I've been using web browsers…
- The Disheartening Early Phase of Cycle Times Posted in: Process - Whenever I implement cycle-time as a metric, I have to explain that there is a slightly disheartening early phase to…
- On Being an Introverted Extrovert Posted in: Psychology - There is a general pop-psychology perception that people have a personality type. This has been embedded into the collective mindset…
- Humans vs Machines: Augmented AI Posted in: Automation - I recently attended an event in Manchester, organised by BJSS and Microsoft, on the subject of AI and ML. The…
- Sociable Pomodoro Timer Posted in: Process - When you are using The Pomodoro Technique® there is always a bit of a choice to make about your timer.…