Analysis of AI data center energy consumption in 2026, reviewing credible estimates from LBNL, IEA, and EPRI, and discussing the shift from efficiency gains to new electricity demand.
An analysis of the quantification trap in technology and society, exploring how metrics and benchmarks become authoritative despite their limitations.
Experiment using GitHub Copilot CLI with GPT-5-mini via BYOK to build a Windows tray app, highlighting that code generation is cheap but quality gates are expensive.
Explains why a high R-squared can be misleading in regression models, using examples like mean and polynomial models to illustrate overfitting.
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Critique of YAML in CI/CD pipelines and exploration of alternative configuration systems like Pkl and Dhall.
A curated list of 13 newsletters covering .NET, React, system design, AI, frontend, and engineering leadership to help developers improve.
Announcement of Techorama BE 2026 sessions on Azure Spot instances and EF Core parameterized collections.
Guide on using MiniStack, a free AWS emulator, with .NET and Docker Compose for local development.
Optimizing AI agents for Xcode Simulator automation using RocketSim CLI, reducing tokens and improving speed.
Explores free tools like MockAD and md2ADUC for visualizing and designing Active Directory structures, moving beyond static diagrams.
Explores the psychology of software teams, debunking myths about developer productivity and advocating for team collaboration over individual brilliance.
Fixes AKS NAP ZRS disk PV zone scheduling issue using a Kubernetes mutating admission webhook as a temporary workaround.
Kotlin vs Java Part 3: interop focus. JAVAPRO publishes series on JVM language choice.
Explores 'the inversion' concept from YouTube engineers in 2013, where bot traffic threatened to surpass human views, challenging algorithm design.
Web Weekly #191 covers Chrome's new Prompt API with Gemini Nano, Git history rewriting, CSS keyframe animations, and HTML canvas API updates.
Recap of a session on Microsoft 365 Agents SDK at ECS 2026, including insights and networking highlights.
Developer shares how GitHub Copilot helped transform pet projects into over 20 open source NuGet packages for AI, embeddings, and productivity.
A bug in .NET where BackgroundService exceptions after first await caused exit code 0 is fixed in .NET 11, now propagating errors correctly.
A research paper warns that web agents are vulnerable to confusion attacks from deceptive web pages, not just prompt injection.
Explores how coding agents boost productivity but require strong technical skills to use effectively, debunking the myth that AI replaces developers.
