Get My Thoughts on Automation & Development

Kindness to AI: good manners, or just survival? I wonder how much electricity OpenAI has burned just because people say "please" and "thank you"....

Microsoft Teams: Too Many Apps in One? All-in-one apps like Teams? That’s a hard pass from me. Microsoft Teams wants to be the one app to rule them...

I see your comment. And I see AI fingerprints all over it. You know the ones where you think: Bro... did you even read my post? 😅 I get it. We want...

Abstract the abstraction 🤯. .NET devs, we love our patterns... maybe too much. For a simple CRUD app, I've seen: Repositories – because obviously we...

Just blogged 📢: Building a ServiceClient Factory for Multi-Tenant Dynamics 365 / Dataverse Apps Struggling with multi-tenant Dynamics 365/Dataverse...

Cancel Culture in IT Cancel Culture is happening in major communities to developers and contributors, like: Linux Kernel C++ Standard Committee...

VS Code is NOT an IDE. And I like it that way. I use VS Code as a fast text editor. Just a couple of bare-bone plugins. No bloat. No unnecessary...

“Can you do tomorrow at 3pm?” 😩 No. No I cannot. But you can check my calendar and book yourself. 😎 I use Calendly. Link in my email footer....

Unplugging is scary… until you realize no one died. 😅 Spent a week offline for Hari Raya, deep in the kampung jungle. No laptop. No Teams. Just...

C# devs are having a meltdown… over Go? The TypeScript team is rewriting the compiler… in Go. C# devs expected C#, but Microsoft said nope. Now, the...

AI isn’t asking questions. It’s just making assumptions. In consulting or sales, you learn fast: What customers want isn’t always what solves their...

Cancel Culture in IT: How Codes of Conduct Became Weapons Cancel Culture is happening in major communities to developers and contributors, like the:...

FluentAssertions v8 is now paid software Free: Assert.True(result); $130 per developer: result.Should().BeTrue(); 😱 dotnet

Progressive Enhancement for JS is overrated. In today’s web, HTML + CSS + JS is a package deal. Almost every browser supports the trio, and let’s be...

Alpine.js just clicked. 🎯 Its declarative syntax—attributes on HTML tags—is perfect for simple UI logic. Most of the time, I don’t even need to...

HTMX + ASPNET Core Razor = magic. ✨ But HyperScript? Not so much. 😅 As a developer, I gave HyperScript a try for client-side interactions. I really...

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