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Nick Lydon

Override DbContext in integration tests

Recently I wanted to test what would happen in a scheduled background job when we received an update concurrently from the API. The…

2 min readFeb 13, 2024

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Nick Lydon

Add nuget packages to every project

Sometimes you want a package added to every dotnet project. One example might be static analysers that protect you from misusing…

1 min readJan 11, 2024

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Nick Lydon

Countdown numbers round

In case you’re not familiar with Countdown, it’s a gameshow where two contests compete against each other in 30-second rounds. The rounds…

4 min readApr 15, 2023

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Countdown numbers round

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Nick Lydon

BigQuery array concatenation to string

I often need to turn an array of numbers in BigQuery to a comma-separated string, but keep forgetting how to so I’m writing it down once…

1 min readMar 30, 2023

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Nick Lydon

History is written by the victors…

… and is rewritten by developers using git!

1 min readNov 16, 2022

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History is written by the victors…

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Nick Lydon

Generating unique values in FsCheck

FsCheck is handy for generating pseudo-random values whilst testing, but one thing that’s not particularly intuitive is how to generate…

2 min readSep 15, 2022

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Generating unique values in FsCheck

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Nick Lydon

Taking control of flagger canary pods

As part of continuous deployment you want to be assured that a new release won’t break anything when it’s deployed. To that end you can use…

2 min readAug 27, 2022

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Taking control of flagger canary pods

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Nick Lydon

Swagger service url behind reverse proxy

This issue was seen in a dotnet application using swashbuckle and swagger-ui.

1 min readAug 18, 2022

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Nick Lydon

Solving correlated subquery error in BigQuery

Recently I had to create an array whilst selecting from another array in Google BigQuery:

1 min readApr 28, 2022

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Nick Lydon

The pain of Avro schemas

Recently I’ve been working with Apache Avro and I must say, the development experience leaves a lot to be desired. It’s very easy to make a…

2 min readApr 8, 2022

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Nick Lydon

Nick Lydon

British software developer working as a freelancer in Berlin. Mainly dotnet, but happy to try new things! https://github.com/NickLydon

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