A curated daily digest of IT/technology news, covering AI, .NET, web development, cloud, and software engineering updates for April 9, 2026.
Explores the decision between rebuilding or refactoring legacy software, covering challenges and business considerations.
Announcement of a grant for pimsync to port vdirsyncer features, with a deprecation plan for vdirsyncer.
A review of Harbor, a framework for evaluating and optimizing AI coding agents and models in container environments.
A developer builds a Django-powered site to host 20,000 photos, exploring the intersection of photography, coding, and tool-building philosophy.
Microsoft Bing open-sources new embedding models, now usable in C# via LocalEmbeddings.Harrier library.
Explains newly discovered SQL Server privilege escalation paths from DatabaseManager role to sysadmin, including attack details and mitigation.
Release notes for dzBdsLauncher 1.0.19, a tool to open Delphi projects with the correct IDE version, fixing .dpk file handling.
Introduces ElBruno.MarkItDotNet, a .NET library for converting PDFs, Word docs, HTML, and more to Markdown with streaming and DI support.
Developer updates C# library ElBruno.LocalLLMs for Google's new Gemma 4 models, detailing architecture, features, and ONNX conversion challenges.
PostgreSQL 19 adds UPDATE/DELETE FOR PORTION OF for temporal tables, simplifying history management.
Explains how to analyze crashed JVMs using jcmd and JEP 528 for debugging Java applications.
A critical opinion piece questioning whether the investment in AI is worthwhile, discussing its promises and real-world limitations.
A guide to using ElBruno.QRCodeGenerator, a lightweight .NET library for generating QR codes in ASCII, PNG, SVG, and payload formats.
Critter Stack releases new versions of Marten, Wolverine, Polecat, Weasel, and JasperFx with sharded multi-tenancy and database pooling features.
A critical analysis of technical incompetence in the workplace, coining the term NVTP (Not Very Technical Person) to describe those who pretend to be technically skilled.
A software engineer reflects on leaving a traditional employer for an AI-driven role, now orchestrating AI tools instead of writing code directly.
PostgreSQL 19 adds JSON format to COPY TO, enabling NDJSON-style export of query results and table data.
Guide to installing the dig DNS lookup utility on Debian Linux using the dnsutils package.
Exploring MariaDB Galera cluster multi-master setup, reproducing Jepsen report findings on data loss and lost updates.
