What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap
I worked at a startup in Toledo called Heartland Information Services. We provided transcription services to some of ...
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The Limit of Software Brain
Software brain, AI backlash, databases, and automation by Nilay Patel on Decoder: I've been calling it software brain, ...
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It's Time for a Visual Studio Upgrade
A developer told me recently that Visual Studio 2022 just works for him. Four years of monthly servicing, no major ...
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Old Protocols, New Pipes
I built an MCP server this week. Not a toy exactly, not even a proof of concept; I wanted a working tool that lets a ...
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Three New MAI Models
Microsoft announced three new first‑party MAI models this week, all available through Foundry. The releases cover ...
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We are still engineers
Steve Sanderson from the GitHub Copilot coding agent team walks through the techniques and mental models that make the ...
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Upgrading old code with Copilot
I finally did it! DasBlog Core has been officially upgraded to .NET 10! This is probably the single biggest release ...
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Leadership from Birds
A colleague shared a newsletter with me titled The Shape of Leadership by Mike Fisher, here is an excerpt: The ...
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Color‑Driven Code Navigation
Color has become one of the most important tools in my daily development workflow. When I am moving across dozens of ...
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