Explains why Task.Delay in C# fails for delays over 49.7 days and provides a workaround for long-running timers.
A developer's reflection on how AI coding agents, particularly GPT-5 and Codex, have dramatically accelerated software development by handling routine coding tasks.
Author details how Substack's content filter blocked a newsletter containing a SQL injection exploit example, citing a 'Network error'.
Analyzes the financial realities and motivations behind paid technical speaking at conferences, including who is the 'product' and why speakers do it.
A developer explains their shift from Arch Linux's AUR to using Flatpak on Debian, driven by security concerns and system stability.
A software developer argues that the internet has become a net negative, critiquing its shift from democratization to commercialization and psychological manipulation.
A technical guide explaining how to use wget with recursive options to download entire websites for offline viewing, including a breakdown of key command-line flags.
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Discusses the value of using opaque wrapper types in software development to avoid primitive obsession and improve type safety.
A technical guide on debugging ETW event drops in high-throughput Windows applications, covering session analysis and bottleneck identification.
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A developer's 2025 review focusing on a single keynote talk about open source infrastructure, and lessons learned about preparing invited vs. pitched talks.
A developer uses Claude Code to build a browser-based RSS reader, learning about CORS proxies and security pitfalls along the way.
How to fix Electron app errors when native Node modules are compiled against the wrong Node.js version, using @electron/rebuild.
A technical guide on setting up and configuring event-driven Azure Container App Jobs using Azure Service Bus and KEDA scaling.
A developer shares their experience building a Winter Wishlist app using the MCP-UI framework and Goose AI agent, focusing on UI integration and iframe sizing challenges.
Boris Cherny shares his experience using Claude Code + Opus 4.5 to write all code for 259 PRs in a month, highlighting AI's coding progress.
A developer recounts a production C++ bug caused by undefined behavior, explaining how uninitialized struct members led to a critical API error.
Microsoft adds a new 'Microsoft 365 Support Engineer' role to Entra, but warns it's not for general use and is likely for internal or partner support.
Microsoft's Azure IaaS and Azure Local updates for late Dec 2025, covering AI platform leadership, storage replication, and ransomware protection.
A review of textarea.my, a minimalist browser-based text editor that stores data in the URL hash, highlighting its clever JavaScript techniques.
Explores how AI prompts have evolved from simple text strings into critical, reusable system components with logic, and the challenges this creates.
