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2026 The boring parts make AI agents production-ready 1 Jul
2026 Debugging should not become a therapy session 22 Jun
2026 If only AI can operate your product, you have already lost control 10 Jun
2026 My First Personal AI Agent - J.A.R.V.I.S. 15 May
2026 Your engineering practice as an agentic pipeline 12 May
2026 If the guardrail is a line in a prompt, the model can ignore it ... and eventually will 28 Apr
2026 Agent teams aren't there yet 8 Apr
2026 The cost of coming back to a piece of code has plummeted 2 Apr
2026 A premium AI subscription costs almost nothing compared to what you're already paying that engineer 24 Mar
2026 We went from vibe coding to agentic engineering. Next up: building the harness 17 Mar
2026 We want to give every engineer a Claude subscription so we can hit our deadlines 10 Mar
2026 Are you still using the same engineering job description from three years ago? 3 Mar
2026 The cloud trap is repeating itself with vibe coding 24 Feb
2026 Vibe coding brings back the software black box with a vengeance 19 Feb
2026 Documentation has a new reader 28 Jan
2025 Feature passports are the bare minimum 2 Dec
2025 Feedback is your development team's fuel 21 Nov
2025 Beware of rebuild bankruptcy 14 Nov
2025 The most important job for a startup founder 5 Nov
2025 Don't build an app just to be in the app store 23 Oct
2025 The illusion of free money by whitelabelling software 26 Aug
2025 Communicate or be micromanaged 19 Aug
2025 AI reinforces cowboy development 24 Jun
2025 Build the solution that costs the least effort 28 May
2025 Focus should be your number one priority 13 May
2025 Have you thought about the consequences of using a library? 6 May
2025 We are right, it's not our problem 8 Apr
2025 Rebuilding is not the answer 18 Mar
2025 Own your infrastructure from day one. Future-you will thank you. 11 Mar
2025 Are engineers in meetings a waste of time? 23 Feb
2025 Domain-Driven Design can be scary 14 Feb
2025 Outsourcing Your Product Development? Here’s How to Stay in Control 31 Jan
2025 How do you empower junior engineers as a senior engineer? 26 Jan
2025 We have clients lined up waiting for feature X 17 Jan
2025 "We're like family" can hurt your career 9 Jan
2024 Ask for documentation when outsourcing your project 28 Dec
2024 Balancing between accommodating and resistant behaviour as a technical leader 22 Dec
2024 You can't outsource your way out of documentation 15 Dec
2024 Don't Rush Into a Rebuild 28 Nov
2024 Stop Blaming Your External Partners 17 Nov
2024 Who should dictate the technical vision and pace? The product or engineering team? 8 Nov
2024 Full-stack vs. Specialists 1 Nov
2024 Help stakeholders understand technical debt 15 Oct
2024 Protecting your problem solvers 11 Oct
2024 Technical Debt leads to Quality Degradation 4 Oct
2024 Quality is a choice 27 Sep
2024 Lessons Learned from a lost Google Play Store account 20 Sep
2024 The True Cost of Postponed Upgrades 13 Sep
2024 A Great Developer Experience Translates To Better Products 3 Sep
2024 Why Invest In Technical Debt 27 Aug
2024 Perseverance: The Unsung Hero of Engineering Success 24 Aug
2024 Embrace Support Rotation for Invaluable Insights 16 Aug
2024 Navigating the Software Solutions Maze for Microenterprises 7 Aug
2024 Scratching your maker's itch 1 Aug
2024 We just throw people at the problem until it goes away 23 Jul
2024 Stop coding and trust your team 17 Jul
2023 Auto-generated Home Assistant dashboards 6 Aug
2020 Creating an iOS 14 widget showing health data 7 Jul
2020 Manipulating an Excel file with Python 15 May
2020 Installing a node.js application as a Windows service 12 Apr
2020 Using HTTP platform handler to host a node.js application via IIS 14 Mar
2019 Connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server database on macOS using Python 8 Aug
2019 Things I wish I knew before I got started with CosmosDB 31 Jul
2019 Testing request permissions in an Android application 15 Jul
2019 Using the Digispark as a cheap USB Rubber Ducky 5 Apr
2019 Hosting a Node.js application on Windows with IIS as reverse proxy 14 Mar
2018 Configuring aliases in iTerm on Mac and Cmder on Windows in Parallels 26 Dec
2018 Improve Visual Studio Performance By Disabling Automatic File Restore 15 Sep
2018 Notes on the Code Complete book 31 Jul
2018 Drawing in Android, be aware of pixel density 21 Jan
2017 I went to Joy of Coding 2017 3 Sep
2017 This was Techorama 2017 16 Jun
2017 Scanning for Bluetooth devices with React Native 31 May
2017 Continuous integration with Jenkins using a Fake build script 7 May
2017 My learning goals for 2017 30 Apr
2017 Creating a build script for an ASP.Net MVC web application with Fake 17 Apr
2017 Make an AJAX call when the user leaves a web page (using onbeforeunload) 29 Mar
2016 First Steps With Azure Storage 21 Oct
2016 Integration testing an ASP.Net MVC 5 web application that uses Structuremap 1 Aug
2016 This was Valiocon 2016 7 Jun
2015 Show Load Time Of A Page With ASP.Net Web Forms 1 Feb
2014 Getting Error MSB3086: Task could not find sgen.exe using the SdkToolsPath when building .Net 4.0 solution with TeamCity 8.0 25 May
2012 A Design Pattern A Day: The Singleton Pattern 15 Sep
2012 A Design Pattern A Day: The Decorator Pattern 16 Jun
2012 Starting a project with Express, node.js and Stylus 29 Feb
2011 Using an anonymous object as the model for your Spark view 20 May
2011 Spark HTML generation fails: View source file not found 8 May
2010 Using spark as a html/text rendering engine 30 Oct
2010 A Kindle DX or an iPad? 27 Jun
2010 Book review: Getting Real by 37 signals 5 Apr
2010 Permission to access webcam not asked by Silverlight 4 beta on load of page 8 Feb
2010 An alternative to editing JavaScript in Visual Studio: RubyMine 28 Jan
2009 Not another NDepend review, link roundup 20 Dec
2009 Continuous education, Hanselminutes show #187 6 Dec
2009 Visual Studio Redesign: lose the designers, add a command prompt? 26 Jul
2009 Compressing and combining files with JavaScriptMVC 18 Jul
2009 Getting the element that has the focus via JavaScript 11 Jul
2009 The MVC in JavaScriptMVC 6 Jul
2009 Finally found what I have been looking for: JavaScriptMVC 22 Jun
2009 Book review: jQuery in Action 6 Jun