A critical essay on the decline of social media, arguing it has become a tool for distraction and rage, and reflecting on the loss of its early creative community spirit.
Explore config.json vs secrets management in Microsoft Agent Framework, covering security trade-offs and best practices for storing sensitive data.
Analyzing NYC dog name data reveals a log-normal distribution rather than a power-law, with surprising top names.
Brent Ozar explains when to use temp tables instead of CTEs in T-SQL, using a performance example with SQL Server 2025.
Explores how cryptography would work in pre-computer eras, discussing manual and mechanical encryption methods that were unbreakable then.
Daily digest of developer news: tools, AI, .NET, web dev, and tech updates for August 11, 2026.
A guide to selecting and implementing AI gateway patterns for enterprises, covering API management, LLM proxies, edge gateways, and agent tool gateways.
Analysis of Meta's new open-weight Muse Glimmer 30B LLM, focusing on its architecture, KV-cache efficiency, and comparison to similar models.
Explores VMware Cloud Foundation multi-tenancy using a city metaphor, detailing how to design secure tenant neighborhoods on a shared platform.
Learn how to use keyed services in .NET 8's DI container to register and inject named implementations, avoiding last-registration-wins issues.
An exploration of mobile platform foundations, covering build, run, observe, and distribute systems, and their impact on engineering velocity and app reliability.
Designing NSX microsegmentation with distributed firewall policy around applications, using a vault metaphor for workload isolation.
AI coding tools boost code volume but create operational bottlenecks in review, security, and ops, requiring new CIO metrics.
Author to speak at HELish Summit 2026 about extending Microsoft 365 Copilot with declarative agents and connectors.
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weights model under Apache 2.0, optimized for agentic tasks, tool use, and multi-step reasoning.
Exploring Knuth's TAOCP on learning from historical mistakes in computer science and mathematics.
Explores how inverse differential equations reveal properties of special functions like Bessel functions, using the indicial equation to understand behavior without solving.
A blog post announcing a 4-part Microsoft Reactor series for C#/.NET devs to build an AI agent harness, live coding a 'claw' agent with tools, memory, and deployment.
A curated digest of tech links covering .NET, JavaScript, AI, DevOps, and more for August 10, 2026.
Learn how to build an operating model for AI gateways, covering identity, policy, observability, and cost controls for production readiness.
