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Leadership from Birds

January 26, 2026
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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

January 22, 2026
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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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I Misunderstood Skills Entirely

December 31, 2025
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I found this excerpt from Did Skills Kill MCP? really helpful: Saying skills killed MCP is about as accurate as saying ...

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I Miss Riding the Cuts

December 22, 2025
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My brother gifted me a Diamond Back Ascent in the early 90s, I remember it was snowing when he dropped it off, but ...

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Does the math work?

December 04, 2025
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The Verge has delivered some of the year’s best interviews with a variety of tech CEOs, and this end‑of‑year ...

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An AI-orchestrated espionage campaign

November 14, 2025
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Fascinating (frightening?) report from Anthropic describing how they eventually disrupted the first reported ...

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Private AI Investment is on a GDP-Scale

November 08, 2025
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Like you, I’ve been blown away by the projected capital investments in AI. The only way I can wrap my head around the ...

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Define a default startup project in your slnx file

October 23, 2025
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Earlier this year we introduced SLNX, an XML-based solution file format that replaces the old, proprietary .sln layout ...

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Here’s how to turn off Copilot

September 21, 2025
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Every time I talk about Copilot, its value, its impact, the way it can improve a developer workflow, someone jumps in ...

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