Stephen Newman

Rust 1.95.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀✨ This release includes cfg_select!{}, if-let guards in match, Vec::push_mut, VecDeque::push_{front,back}_mut, std::hint::cold_path, and more! Check out the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/R...

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Here’s How to Instruct a LLM to Reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide, by @eric@social.ericwbailey.website: https://ericwbailey.website/published/heres-how-to-instruct-a-llm-to-reference-the-aria-authoring-practices-guide/ #howtos #ai #aria #accessibility

Is correlation intelligence?

Category Theory for JavaScript/TypeScript Developers, by @ibrahimcesar.com: https://ibrahimcesar.cloud/blog/category-theory-for-javascript-typescript-developers/ #javascript #typescript #programming #craft

Continuing my investigation of applying uninformed search techniques to conquer the Countdown Numbers Round with depth first search and includes some benchmarks using BenchmarkDotNet. blog.newman.digital/posts/2025/1...

Try going days without water. That’s what people in Tunbridge Wells have had to do.   Families, care homes and schools are in limbo while South East Water still can’t say when this will be fixed. Thank you Mike Martin for stepping up and holding those responsible to account.

This year, I decided to try my hand a writing a blog. I've just published my walkthrough of solving a classic UK game show segment using uninformed search - blog.newman.digital/posts/2025/1... with a discussion as to how we can make this ability available to GitHub Copilot via an MCP server.

Using AI to write your tests requires your software to be both complete and correct. These are dangerous assumptions to make. Go test first and let the genie help you make them pass.

Nice to have some .NET 10 in production :)

If you have a secret or hidden phone, the government's Emergency Alerts could reveal your device, even if it's on silent or do not disturb. The government is testing emergency alerts on Sunday 7 September. If you're worried this could reveal a phone, you can follow this guide to turn off the alerts

Why I launched a new, different kind of survey: dev.to/sachagreif/l... (take the survey here! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey... )

Just an unbelievable week. Hoping that Europe and the UK can step up and lead the free world as the US has (hopefully temporarily) decided to tread a different path.

I’ve got some serious catching up to do with #adventofcode. Busy with family and Christmas preparation stuff. I must collect more stars over the weekend! Learning a lot with Python though, definitely helps increasing language skill. Grateful it exists.

I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5 I feel like I made a built of a meal of this one, but still, lots of learning happened! github.com/newmancodes/...

I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4 github.com/newmancodes/...

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3 github.com/newmancodes/...

I just completed "Red-Nosed Reports" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/2 github.com/newmancodes/...

Great way to start the day! Trying to keep the Python brain cells alive! github.com/newmancodes/... Day 01 ⭐️⭐️ #aoc #adventofcode

I had a wonderful time for Dragon Age the Veilguard. The game runs great, is fun to play, looks amazing, and I enjoyed the story. My companions lacking a health pool led to some attrition-based boss encounters (always bring a healer), but by and large it’s a great game that I happily recommend 8/10.

📢 I'm very happy to share with you the Pulumi Roadmap 👉 roadmap.sh/r/pulumi-roa... 📚✨ I hope it will help people who are beginning their Infrastructure as Code journey with Pulumi. 🔁 Don't hesitate to repost this. #pulumi #iac

Updated some blazor wasm to .net 9, and took advantage of the new static file handling. Only odd thing I had was needing to add a new h1 { outline: none; } style. All deployed to container apps via pulumi and tested via playwright. Great stuff.

Deactivated my account from the other place, updated my website to link here instead.

Qualifying is quite the ride today. Crossing my fingers for Lando. #F1

Heading into the office for the day, wish I could take my furry coworker.

Got all my jobs done yesterday so I am dedicating today to Silent Hill 2 Remake whilst being a pillow for our dog. Hope everybody has similarly amazing Sundays.

Constructed my first #Warhammer40k mini this afternoon. Painting will occur soon.

So I guess I am going to start “the hobby”.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,889,806!

Loved today’s Azerbaijan GP. Amazing result for Nando to finish ahead of Max. Masterclass performance from Piastri. McLaren leading the Constructors. Looking forward to Singapore! #F1 #TeamPapaya

Decided to pick up Star Wars Outlaws and I have to say, I’m really enjoying it. Is it perfect? No way near. But it does things I enjoy. There is jank and there are moments where the stealth feels too hard, but Nix is adorable :)

He’s tired and I’m not in fall asleep on hooman position.

Got a couple of weeks off soon, let’s take a look at Elixir…

Looking forward to playing some Black Myth Wukong later this week. Heading to the office for a couple of days but Friday I shall be pressing Play.

Spent a few hours this evening playing with Marten, enjoying it so far, looking forward to getting deeper into it (along with Wolverine).

Deciding to abandon the other place and hoping to connect with fellow #dotnet devs. I also have an interest in Rust, React, Angular, Python, Java, and Go. Outside of tech I love F1, sim racing, metal, and Lego!