Week notes 11
A developer shares weekly updates including a technical post on a custom 'copy Markdown' button for MDX/Next.js docs and improvements to their Astro blog.
A developer shares weekly updates including a technical post on a custom 'copy Markdown' button for MDX/Next.js docs and improvements to their Astro blog.
Monthly update on Azure hybrid management & security, covering Azure Arc changes, AKS decommissioning, and AI-driven SQL migration tools.
Osmo's AI-powered 'scent teleportation' breakthrough digitizes smell, enabling new applications in diagnostics, chemistry, and human-computer interaction.
Apple licenses Google's 1.2T-parameter Gemini AI for Siri in a $1B/year deal, a strategic interim step before its own model in 2026.
Analysis of China's Kimi K2 Thinking AI model, a low-cost, open-weight model challenging US dominance in reasoning and agentic tasks.
Introduces the new MediaTypeMap helper in .NET 11 for easy MIME type and file extension lookups in web development.
A technical analysis comparing PostgreSQL JSON storage options, compression methods (pglz vs. lz4), and performance optimizations.
A guide to automating the publishing of internal .NET NuGet packages using GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages.
Introduces dremioframe, a Python DataFrame library for querying Dremio with a pandas-like API, generating SQL under the hood.
Explains how adding random jitter to scheduled tasks can prevent synchronized resource spikes and improve application performance.
A developer's personal experiment with AI-driven software development using local LLMs, detailing setup, challenges, and initial impressions.
A critique of AI's role in software development, arguing that output is not productivity and that expertise remains essential for solving real problems.
A curated summary of recent technical blog posts from Microsoft's ecosystem, covering .NET, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Visual Studio updates.
Explores how natural language, like English, is becoming a key interface for software development with AI tools, lowering barriers to participation.
Explains how Azure API Management can directly publish messages to Azure Service Bus using a managed identity and a specific policy.
A curated collection of articles on software architecture, development, testing, and leadership, featuring insights on microservices, data privacy, UX, and DevOps.
Explains how Azure AI Landing Zones provide a blueprint for scalable, secure AI solutions on Microsoft Azure, covering architecture and deployment.
A simple, intuitive explanation of public key cryptography using analogies and a number game to explain how to prove a secret without revealing it.
Explains the differences and usage of nullable and required types in C#, covering value types, reference types, and the nullable operator.
Brendan Gregg discusses AI agents trained on his performance engineering work, their limitations, and the ethical implications of creating 'Virtual Brendans'.