A technical guide on automating virtual machine power actions and snapshots using PowerCLI and Python scripts.
A technical analysis of a SQL interview question about detecting suspicious account logins from multiple countries within a short timeframe.
A talk exploring adversarial web scraping, covering bot detection techniques and ethical methods to bypass them from both scraper and site operator perspectives.
Ben Nadel discusses overcoming the mental block of modifying array elements during a .filter() operation in ColdFusion, arguing it's a valid practice.
Explains how to bypass Entity Framework's SqlRaw requirement to return all entity properties by explicitly selecting NULL for missing columns.
A software engineer argues that tech culture has lost its original creative spirit and calls for a new counter-culture movement.
Explains how to disable thread safety checks in Entity Framework for performance, with warnings about risks and proper usage.
A follow-up analysis of unexpected behavior in C# record types when using the 'with' operator, exploring differing mental models and solutions.
A guide to troubleshooting network connectivity issues with the Azure Connected Machine agent for Azure Arc.
A technical guide on implementing end-to-end user authorization for MCP servers using Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, and on-behalf-of flows.
A developer's raw notes on profiling challenges and ideas for JFR stack sampling in the OpenJDK, written in March 2025.
Guide to migrating service account authentication from Vertex AI SDK to Google Gen AI SDK for Python and Go applications.
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A developer details their attempt to jailbreak a Kindle to read EPUBs and avoid Amazon's ecosystem, exploring KOReader and the challenges involved.
Introducing hinbox, an AI-powered tool for extracting and organizing entities from historical documents to build structured research databases.
A blog series for engineers on practical software development, focusing on real-world tradeoffs, judgment, and avoiding burnout over perfection.
A talk at PyCon Italia 2025 on implementing semantic search using Python, Django, PostgreSQL, and open-source AI tools.
Explores unsafe C# techniques to access private fields without reflection, using memory layout and pointers for performance, as a fun educational exercise.
Explains how to create custom argument validation guards using the new extension feature in C# 14 and .NET 10.
Amazon Q Developer CLI now supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect external data sources for richer, context-aware AI assistance in development tasks.
A developer shares a fix for the 'Failed to connect to the remote extension host server' error in VS Code when reconnecting to WSL after sleep.
