Well, here we are finally - the sound of one door closing, and the end of a 17-year journey.
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-car-crash-in-slow-motion/
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Well, here we are finally - the sound of one door closing, and the end of a 17-year journey.
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/06/04/a-car-crash-in-slow-motion/
Heads up! Tickets for our flagship 3-day Code Craft workshop I'm running on July 7-9 are HALF-PRICE until midnight tomorrow (June 5th) if you buy them online.
That's a saving of £745 (not inc VAT) per ticket! Book the whole team and save £thousands ;-)
Apart from 'test it works', your usual reminder: if you're tempted to exclusively present relative times, don't.
(This advice covers a most cases. There are a couple of exceptions, but they are so specific that almost all off-the-shelf attempts at doing relative time will, in some way, be wrong.)
Well, while I'm here ranting about it, Meetup is an example of the kind of site you get when you lack an overall design concept (both for the UX and for the architecture).
It also shows the consequences of not having good automated tests: looking at a comment posted yesterday, which is listed as having been posted 57 days ago, and one a couple of weeks ago as having been posted 86 days ago.
I'm not saying that Meetup is a UX trainwreck, but I just went through dismissing four stacked pop-ups to get to the page I was after.
(OK, maybe I am saying it... I really wish the product owners and developers could be given a chance to fix the sad state of affairs that is the site and its app 🙁)


Where you can find me over the coming three months:
Craft
4–5 June, Budapest
https://craft-conf.com/2026
ACCU on Sea
17–20 June, Folkestone
https://accuonsea.uk
Developer South Coast
9 July, Southampton
https://www.meetup.com/developersouthcoast/events/314185714
re:connect
10 July, Bournemouth
https://reconnectconference.co.uk
.NET Day Switzerland
25 August, Zurich
https://dotnetday.ch