Giving Claude Code a /goalI recently use the /goal command in Claude Code for the first time. I was struggling to reproduce a bug that I already had a theoretical understanding of from investigating the codebase, but had previ31NJul 30 · 2 min readtechblog.timhilton.xyz
Month 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 skJul 3 · 3 min readtechblog.timhilton.xyz
TIL 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 thi1Jun 3 · 2 min readtechblog.timhilton.xyz
Month 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 usiJun 1 · 4 min readtechblog.timhilton.xyz
TIL 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 NetTopolog1May 7 · 2 min readtechblog.timhilton.xyz
