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Welcome emails are more than just a "Hey, thanks for signing up." They set the stage for your newsletter. 🎭 Explain what your mailing list is all about. Let subscribers know they can hit "reply"...

Black Friday: The Old Gamer's Dilemma Ah, Black Friday. A sacred holiday for gamers like me—where we stock up on heavily discounted games we’ll never have time to play. Once upon a time, I’d dive...

Backlog: The Black Hole of ideas Is your backlog turning into an ever-expanding universe of forgotten dreams? We all know that mix—a jumble of big ideas and tiny tasks waiting for their day in the...

The Trade-off Between Budgets and Quality ⚖️ In my previous post, I talked about shifting from Estimates to Budgets for feature development 💡. Let's dive deeper. Using a Budget instead of an...

Budgets instead of Estimates Estimating a feature is difficult and is often a guess (or even a lie). An Estimate is for a fixed scope. So, you need to think deeply how to implement the feature,...

C# is the most popular and loved programming language. According to Microsoft.

I'm dropping GitVersion. After working with GitVersion for a while, I decided to simplify things. GitVersion is powerful, but it often felt like overkill for my projects. I wanted something that...

JetBrains Rider is free! At least for Non-Commercial use. My favorite IDE is free. This is so cool! I hope this will help more people to start with C# development. We have Visual Studio Community...

SpaceX just caught a booster rocket with giant mechanical arms—are you as amazed as I am? Just watched the SpaceX booster rocket land on the platform today, and I'm still in awe. I was already...

I disconnect once a year to recharge! After a wonderful month-long holiday back in my home country, The Netherlands, I’m now back in Kuala Lumpur and ready to dive back into work. 🌏✈️ I spent...