A pragmatic take on Friday and holiday deploy freezes, arguing they are a necessary hack for teams lacking robust observability, not a virtue.
A technical guide to installing KAITO v0.8.x on Azure Kubernetes Service to run the Phi-4 language model for AI inference.
A ColdFusion code kata exploring methods for conditionally formatting compound strings like names and addresses, comparing brute-force logic with list functions.
Microsoft announces a major redesign (v4) of the Azure Logic Apps designer in Public Preview, featuring a cleaner layout, draft mode, and workflow notes.
Explores the open standard for AI agent skills, detailing how tools like Goose use SKILL.md files to provide contextual expertise automatically.
Explores integrating the Goose AI agent directly into your terminal for ambient, on-demand assistance without explicit sessions.
A tutorial on building a local AI agent with vision and function calling using Microsoft Agent Framework and Ollama in C#.
A technical walkthrough of using the Council of Mine AI extension for MCP sampling to resolve a fictional committee debate, part of an AI advent series.
Explains how to use Lambda functions and IIFEs for short-circuiting control flow in ColdFusion to improve code readability while managing post-processing logic.
A monthly tech link roundup focusing on Kafka, event streaming, and data engineering, including personal news about company acquisitions.
Analyzes performance differences between ToListAsync and ToArrayAsync in Entity Framework, concluding ToListAsync is faster.
A developer reflects on the first year of their tech-focused newsletter, sharing growth stats, key lessons learned, and strategies for consistent content creation.
The HTML <time> element is widely used but lacks practical browser or assistive tech support, making it a semantic but underutilized feature.
Explains how to configure ColdFusion to process non-CFML files (like .html, .txt) as executable CFML code when using the cfinclude tag.
Explores a workaround for ColdFusion's lack of a native function to render images directly to binary, proposing custom UDFs for better workflow.
A developer shares key engineering lessons learned from building AI agents in .NET, focusing on state management, orchestration, and observability.
A look at JustHTML, a new Python HTML parser library, and how it was built using AI-assisted programming and 'vibe engineering'.
Explains why Azure Container App Jobs are a simpler alternative to Azure Functions for running scheduled tasks and processing events in Azure.
Explains how to localize Swift packages using Xcode's string catalogs, covering benefits, drawbacks, and improvements in Xcode 26.
Explains a deterministic refresh architecture for UI, focusing on a RefreshGuard to manage competing events and ensure predictable behavior.
