Theme colors, shipped
Some time ago I wrote A Kind of Blue to explain why the Blue theme did not survive the Fluent refresh in Visual Studio. ...
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AI Splits the Market
Most predictions about the AI era assume one outcome across the whole software industry. Startups will eat incumbents. ...
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The agent always cost this much
GitHub moved Copilot from Premium Request Units to AI Credits this week, and developers on Reddit were reporting within ...
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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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