REST Constraint #4: Cacheable for Better Performance - Chris Woody Woodruff The internet is fast—until it’s not. Nobody likes waiting for a sluggish API response, and overloaded servers don’t help either. That’s where caching comes in. RESTful APIs embrace caching to improve performance, reduce server load, and create a smoother ...
Vibe Coding - Dev Leader Weekly 88 Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the hot topic of Vibe Coding and what it means for you!
Laurent Kempé - Model Context Protocol Made Easy: Building an MCP Server in C# In my previous post, I demonstrated how to use C# with Microsoft.Extensions.AI, Ollama, and a nuget package called mcpdotnet to interact with an existing MCP Server. Since then, mcpdotnet has been elevated to become the “official C# SDK for Model Context ...
Automating Apple Builds: A Practical Guide to GitHub Secrets In this post, I show how to set up GitHub Secrets to securely manage credentials for automated Apple builds.
Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten Monster Cables, which makes extremely high-priced stereo cables, has apparently sent a cease-and-desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable, alleging various kinds of infringement. Bad move – the pres…
New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to...
All About Vibe Coding - Engineering Manager AMA It's all the rage these days and everyone from your hair stylist to your fish groomer is talking about it... Vibe coding! What the heck is it? Who is it good for? Are the vibes immaculate? Let's find out. As with all livestreams, I'm looking forward to ...
Weekly Recap - 2025-03-21 Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!
The little book about OS development This text is a practical guide to writing your own x86 operating system. It is designed to give enough help with the technical details while at the same time not reveal too much with samples and code excerpts. We’ve tried to collect parts of the vast (and...
Pen and Paper Exercises in Machine Learning This is a collection of (mostly) pen-and-paper exercises in machine learning. The exercises are on the following topics: linear algebra, optimisation, directed graphical models, undirected graphical models, expressive power of graphical models, factor gra...
Options Pattern Validation in ASP.NET Core With FluentValidation Elevate your ASP.NET Core configuration with FluentValidation integration that catches configuration errors at startup, preventing silent failures and runtime exceptions with more expressive validation rules than Data Annotations.
Database Protocols Are Underwhelming If you’ve been in this trade for a while, you have probably seen dozens of debates on the merits and problems of SQL as a relational database query language. As an ORM maintainer, I have a few gripes with SQL, but overall it is workable, and anyway, it ha...
Early Thoughts on OpenAI’s ‘Agents’ “Isn’t an agent just an LLM workflow?”. This has been true of a lot of companies building “agents” recently. I like Anthropic’s definition, which is a program that can use tools and make its own decisions.
Use Long Options in Scripts Many command line utilities support short form options (-f) and long form options (--force). Short form is for interactive usage. In scripts, use the long form.
Rusty string formatting in PHP Exploring software development with PHP, JavaScript, Rust, and beyond.
"Vibe Coding" vs Reality Reviewing the capabilities and limitations of LLM agents in software development and their impact on skilled and less skilled developers.
The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But that identity is being challenged. AI coding assistant...
I made an app for competitive hot air balloon pilots This is a fairly long story of why I built Balloon Navigator, what’s involved to fly with centimeters level precision when you can only use wind and how technology is shaping modern ballooning today.
Don't guessbuild How we avoid guessbuilding at Operately by stopping feature development where certainty ends and speculation begins.
Why you shouldn't start with a mobile app Why starting your project with a web-based MVP is often faster and more cost-effective? They simplify development, reduce costs, and enable quick iterations—without sacrificing quality.
How to have great taste Taste is what differentiates the good from the great. So, how can I have better taste? This is my ongoing log of what I have learned.