What have you done for me lately? (Aug 2025)
A developer's personal recap of recent tech projects, including conference presentations, Advent of Code solutions, and sketch noting.
A developer's personal recap of recent tech projects, including conference presentations, Advent of Code solutions, and sketch noting.
Explains the importance of a Secure Isolated Recovery Environment (SIRE) in Azure for ransomware protection and business continuity.
Part 2 of a guide on using Docker Compose to enhance the reliability and portability of AI agents, focusing on Dockerfile and compose.yaml.
A tutorial on using Docker Compose to create reproducible, containerized runtime environments for AI agents, focusing on a weather query example.
Analyzing tech layoffs to identify resilient skills and proposing a curriculum of timeless fundamentals and modern tools for future-proof careers.
A beginner's guide to working with strings in JavaScript, covering data types, string methods, concatenation, and functions.
A statistical reasoning test with three practical problems on sorting uncertain fractions, highlighting anomalies, and estimating population sizes.
Discusses the risks of running analytics on operational databases and offers solutions to separate workloads.
Explores the limitations of the Boolean type in programming and proposes a more expressive type system for logical expressions.
Explores using durable execution engines like Azure Durable Task Scheduler to build robust, long-running AI workflows, such as summarizing articles and generating newsletters.
Explains how to access a Pinia store in a Nuxt.js application after it has been built for production.
A guide to securely configure GitHub Copilot coding agents with federated identity and RBAC for accessing Azure resources in dev/test environments.
A developer shares how using VS Code with GitHub Copilot as a single workspace for full-stack projects improves workflow and productivity.
A guide to creating and installing a custom status line script for Claude Code, displaying project info, costs, and session details.
Explores key traits of AI-native products designed for efficient consumption by AI agents, focusing on context optimization and tool execution.
Explores the limitations of using large language models as substitutes for human opinion polling, highlighting issues of representation and demographic weighting.
Argues that we unfairly criticize AI for being non-deterministic, inconsistent, or error-prone, while accepting the same flaws in human reasoning and output.
Explores the shift from traditional coding to AI prompting in software development, discussing its impact on developer skills and satisfaction.
A guide to resolving the 'class not registered' error when enabling remote debugging for an Azure App Service from Visual Studio.
Geomys, a professional open source maintainer group, discusses taking over critical but unmaintained Go projects like bluemonday and gorilla/csrf as a 'maintainer of last resort'.