Your New Rubber Duck is an AI
Discusses how AI tools like GitHub Copilot are changing developer work, arguing they act as powerful assistants rather than replacements.
Discusses how AI tools like GitHub Copilot are changing developer work, arguing they act as powerful assistants rather than replacements.
Explores error handling in Fortran functions, focusing on optional results and alternatives to success flags and subroutines.
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2022 Cumulative Update 20, detailing its fixes, servicing model, and patching recommendations.
Author's updated SQL Server diagnostic queries for July 2025, covering multiple versions and Azure services for performance and configuration analysis.
A technical guide on implementing MCP client authorization using Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) and OAuth 2.1, following the MCP Authorization specification.
Martin Fowler shares three articles on Gen AI's impact on developers and reflections on meaningful work.
A tutorial on using Positron's Connections Pane to connect to and query DuckDB databases efficiently, especially for handling large datasets.
Explores error handling in Fortran, covering intrinsic methods and naive approaches, with a focus on function design.
A developer details the iterative UI design process for the 'Ask AI' feature in their note-taking app, Edna, focusing on API key clarity.
An update on integrating a moving garbage collector into Guile Scheme, detailing technical challenges, refactors, and bug fixes.
A developer documents how AI agents built a complete shopping cart feature for an e-commerce app, from requirements to code, without manual programming.
An update on the performance fix for ToListAsync in Entity Framework Core, addressing slow queries and high allocations when fetching large data.
A guide on using Positron IDE to SSH into local Docker containers for running R code, improving reproducibility and environment management.
A developer builds an automated bot using Puppeteer, Bun, and ChatGPT to intelligently search and apply for jobs on LinkedIn.
A technical guide on using Kafka Connect to write data from Kafka topics to Apache Iceberg tables stored on AWS S3, using the Glue Data Catalog.
How to open Quarto/Markdown files in external macOS apps from Positron or VS Code to access better native writing tools and spellchecking.
A guide on how to find, join, and organize community meetups focused on Apache Iceberg and modern data lakehouse architectures.
Compares Oracle and PostgreSQL wait analysis for database performance tuning, focusing on wait classes vs. event types.
Explores how tech debt in infrastructure code creates a self-perpetuating 'flywheel' effect, making it extremely costly and difficult to fix.
Explains Terraform 1.10's new ephemeral values for outputs, variables, and resources to prevent sensitive data from being stored in state or plan files.