Regular expressions are fundamentally very simple to understand, but they appear complex and people get quickly put off by this. This is a real shame though because while they look complex, they follow very simple rules and there really are no other tools better than them for the core purpose of …

Visual Studio Code is an incredibly competent development tool from Microsoft and amazingly it’s free. I use it every day in my professional career and, through years of use, I’ve become very familiar with how it works. When you gain this sort of familiarity with a piece of software, you …

Microsoft announced on 18th December 2024 that they were introducing a free tier for GitHub Copilot. So what does this mean, how do you set it up and how can you use it? This post focusses specifically on the integration with Visual Studio Code, but you can use GitHub Copilot with any supported IDE. …