Origami expression language shifts to a JavaScript dialect, adding paths and async features for concise web development and shell scripting.
A developer's advice on learning about core software systems like compilers, databases, and operating systems to become a better engineer.
Discusses the risks of running analytics on operational databases and offers solutions to separate workloads.
Explores using durable execution engines like Azure Durable Task Scheduler to build robust, long-running AI workflows, such as summarizing articles and generating newsletters.
Explores the limitations of using large language models as substitutes for human opinion polling, highlighting issues of representation and demographic weighting.
Explains how to bypass Entity Framework's SqlRaw requirement to return all entity properties by explicitly selecting NULL for missing columns.
A developer critiques a ZFS snapshot sync script generated by Grok AI, highlighting its flaws and potential dangers.
Explains how to implement streaming updates for long-running tasks in Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) framework using asynchronous generators and SSE.
Explains Terraform 1.11's write-only arguments, a feature for handling sensitive data in ephemeral resources without persisting it to state.
Explores how Adobe ColdFusion allows struct keys containing dots to be accessed directly, unlike Lucee CFML.
iOS 18 and macOS 15 include hidden automatic observation tracking for UIKit/AppKit, enabling views to update automatically when @Observable models change.
Analyzing iPhone 15 Pro depth maps stored in HEIC files using Python scripts to extract and convert image metadata.
Developer details integrating the Whippet garbage collector into Guile Scheme, replacing the older BDW-GC for improved performance and maintainability.
Analyzes Microsoft's inclusion of GitHub Copilot hints in .NET documentation, questioning if it's advertising and discussing its implications.
Explores the modern data stack, cloud platforms, and principles for building flexible, cloud-native data engineering architectures.
PostgreSQL 18 introduces new non-text dump formats for pg_dumpall and pg_restore, improving performance and flexibility for database backups.
Critiques a misleading LinkedIn performance tip about Entity Framework, explaining why dragging entire databases into memory is inefficient and offering the correct solution.
A comprehensive mind map of C# language features up to version 14, available as a clickable SVG or high-resolution poster.
Microsoft is developing a new TypeScript compiler in Go, promising 10x speed improvements over the current TypeScript-based compiler.
Explores using Neo4J to visualize and understand the complex, machine-readable OSCAL standard for security compliance automation.
