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My wife asked: "Managed solutions, why bother?" I shrugged and hit the docs. First of all, she is talking about our own in‑house tweaks here; ISV...

.NET 10 finally fixes what Windows 10 broke 😅 Numeric string comparison is here! No more Windows 10 showing up before Windows 8. We’ve all seen it:...

.NET Aspire sounds cool. But do I aspire to use it? No😉 Everyone's talking about it. But… I still don’t get what problem it's solving. ✅ My apps run...

Just blogged 📢: The TypeScript Type Trap in Dynamics 365! 😎 Do you really need TypeScript type generators for your Dynamics 365 forms? IntelliSense?...

I once ran a 12-person company. We had just 2 rules, and things worked beautifully. Most companies? They write a new rule every time something goes...

Do you really need TypeScript in Dataverse? Do you bring a tank to a Nerf gun fight? Most form scripts in PowerApps Model-Driven Apps are tiny: -...

.NET just grew up... and became a script kiddie You can now run .NET like a script. No project files. No solution. Just: dotnet run myscript.cs Like...

The best code isn't pretty. It's invisible. A dev shared this story: "A cron job they wrote 10 years ago is still quietly making $100/month. It just...

Copilot just sent a PR to .NET Runtime. Cool, right? Until you have to review it... It's like discussing with a lying junior intern. I fixed it! —...

Resharper is now inside VS Code. Yes. You read that right. JetBrains just dropped a VS Code extension for Resharper. See https://shorturl.at/YUlo5...

Still targeting ES6 JavaScript in 2025? That's like debugging with Notepad. 📝 If you’re building JavaScript for Dynamics 365 CRM and still targeting...

The best devs I know don’t chase trends. They chase clarity. Because software is not a sprint — it’s a long awkward marathon with legacy systems...

I just downgraded my Netflix bill by… ...moving countries. 🇳🇱 ➡️ 🇲🇾 No joke. Same shows. Same profile. Just way cheaper. Netflix has been slowly...

In the past 10 years I have updated a lot of JavaScript in Dynamics 365 CRM. These are the 6 refactorings I always do: ✅ Adding executionContext to...

Code is never finished. It just gets abandoned or inherited. And usually by the poor soul who said, "I'll fix it later." (Hint: that soul is you.)...

Congrats Microsoft! You just discovered the most used app in Europe and Asia. 🎉 WhatsApp support is finally coming to Dynamics 365 Contact Center....

One bad deploy = we now need 3 approvals, a checklist, and a blood sample. When something breaks, some companies fix the system. Others... create a...