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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 features. Just speed. I see people turning VS Code...

“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. Customers book themselves. On my terms. At my...

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 trees, monkeys, and endless food. Here’s what happened...

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 internet is on fire. I get it—C# is powerful,...

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 problem. They ask for solutions they know based on...

Cancel Culture in IT: How Codes of Conduct Became Weapons Cancel Culture is happening in major communities to developers and contributors, like the: Linux Kernel C++ Standard Committee Python NixOS...

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 real: users expect apps to work smoothly with...

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 touch JavaScript. And when I do? I can write just a...

HTMX + ASPNET Core Razor = magic. ✨ But HyperScript? Not so much. 😅 As a developer, I gave HyperScript a try for client-side interactions. I really wanted to love it—especially since it’s from the...

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