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It's Time for a Visual Studio Upgrade

April 16, 2026 3 min read

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

April 06, 2026 5 min read

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

April 04, 2026 2 min read

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

March 06, 2026 3 min read

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

February 26, 2026 4 min read

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

January 26, 2026 4 min read

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 6 min read

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 2 min read

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 4 min read

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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