What if you don't have to worry about event versioning or catching breaking changes anymore? What if event consumers are no longer coupled to the schema of the event and instead, subscribe to their semantics? I discovered an exciting new way to manage eve[...]

Postcodes After a pretty practical previous post about records and collections, this post is less likely to give anyone ideas about how they might tackle a problem in their own project, and doesn’t have any feature requests for Microsoft either. It’s an a[...]

For anyone currently keeping tabs or coming here from links: I’m currently posting primarily on substack here. However, the posts will eventually make it back as this is my preferred archival spot.

Records and Collections This post is to some extent a grab-bag of points of friction I’ve encountered when using records and collections within the election site. Records recap This may end up being the most generally useful blog post in this series. Alth[...]

Storage Since my last post about the data models, I’ve simplified things very slightly – basically the improvements that I thought about while writing the post have now been implemented. I won’t go into the details of the changes, as they’re not really im[...]

Data models (and view-models) and how they’re used I was considering using the term “architecture” somewhere in the title of this post, but it feels too pompous for the scale of site. I could probably justify it, but it would give me the ick every time I [...]

Technical overview This post is mostly for scene-setting purposes. There’s nothing particularly remarkable here, but it’s useful to get the plain facts out of the way before we get into genuinely interesting design aspects. Just as a reminder, go to https[...]

Introduction It’s been over 8 months since I started my UK Election 2029 site, and high time that I actually wrote an introduction post so that I can get into more detailed topics later. In 2024, shortly after the UK general election was announced, I crea[...]

Shortly after writing my previous post, a colleague pinged me to say she’d figured out what was wrong – at least at the most immediate level, i.e. the exception itself. Nothing is wrong with the ordering code – it’s just that the exception message is too [...]

I really thought I’d already written a first blog post about my Election 2029 site (https://election2029.uk) but I appear to be further behind on my blogging than I’d thought. This is therefore a little odd first post in the series, but never mind. To som[...]