Essential Reading for Agentic Engineers
A curated list of essential resources for engineers to master AI-assisted development and transition to agentic engineering workflows.
A curated list of essential resources for engineers to master AI-assisted development and transition to agentic engineering workflows.
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.
A technical guide implementing OAuth 2.1 authorization for an MCP server, part two of a three-part series with practical code examples.
A technical guide on replacing traditional footnotes with modern CSS and JavaScript popovers for a better user experience.
A personal journey from aspiring dancer to Python programmer and eventually a distributed systems researcher, detailing career transitions and technical growth.
A personal account of attending and participating in PyCon Italia 2025, covering the experience from organization to speaking.
A tutorial on building an AI agent with Watsonx.ai and integrating it using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Gateway for seamless tool communication.
A guide to using GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code for code explanation, refactoring, debugging, and test generation to boost developer productivity.
A technical guide to implementing the latest MCP Authorization specification for securing HTTP-based MCP servers, starting with building a compliant server using FastAPI.
Explains how to decode Swift Codable types when required data is missing from the JSON source, using partial models.
Argues that clear thinking and purpose, not prompt or context engineering, are the key skills for effective AI interaction, writing, and coding.
Explains how to implement the 'reduce' functional programming concept in Fortran, generalizing array reduction operations.
An update on Azure Virtual WAN developments, focusing on new features like Routing Intent via Terraform and Route Maps, based on recent community talks.
Explores using the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension to generate and validate Azure Bicep code, detailing its agent and ask modes.
Explains how to add descriptive names to data-driven test cases in xUnit by overriding the ToString() method in test data records.
Explores implementing functional programming concepts like filter and map operations within a custom list type in Fortran.
Explains why Context Engineering, not just prompt crafting, is the key skill for building effective AI agents and systems.
How data teams can use a librarian's reference interview technique to better understand and fulfill stakeholder data requests.
A guide for FOSS community leaders on handling reactionary agitators, contrasting ineffective and effective response strategies.
A guide to creating and implementing Service Objects within the CFWheels framework to bridge the gap between Models and Controllers.