THTim Hiltonintechblog.timhilton.xyz·Jul 3 · 3 min readMonth in review: June 2026Things that happened I received a happy birthday message from our HR system. It gave me the same vibes as the AI-written compliments I mentioned in Month in review: May 2026. Microsoft ran an "AI sk00
THTim Hiltonintechblog.timhilton.xyz·Jun 3 · 2 min readTIL capitalising letters with regexBackground My regex skills have improved since I wrote Just enough regex to get going, though I still think it's a good starting point for a developer who is new to regex. In that article I wrote thi10
THTim Hiltonintechblog.timhilton.xyz·Jun 1 · 4 min readMonth in review: May 2026Things I learnt A HashSet is for storing unique elements. The point is that it has O(1) lookups like a Dictionary does. It uses the same basic mechanism as a Dictionary does (hashing objects then usi00
THTim Hiltonintechblog.timhilton.xyz·May 7 · 2 min readTIL how to find latitude and longitude of a geolocation stored in SQL ServerI was recently working with an EF Core entity which contained a C# Point property representing a geolocation. This was stored in a single column in a SQL Server database. (I think this uses NetTopolog10
THTim Hiltonintechblog.timhilton.xyz·May 1 · 2 min readMonths in review: March & April 2026I've really not done much reading or thinking about tech in recent months, so this will be very brief! Things that happened I've tasked Claude with writing explanation of a few codebases I work with.00
