Spade is a new hardware description language which makes hardware description easier and less error-prone. It does this by taking lessons from software programming languages, and adding language level support for common hardware constructs, all without comprom…
Want to uplevel your Azure API Management policies? In this week's episode, community MVP Ryan Niño Dizon shows us Azure API Management Policy Toolkit, a new and evolving tool that simplifies creating and testing policy documents using C#. Featuring: Ryan Niñ…
Fifty years ago it was one of India’s poorest states, now it is now one of the richest. How did Kerala do it?
I announce Xee, the implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust that I've been working on for the last two years.
I woke up today to an X post by Amjad Masad, the CEO of Replit, a company that sells “AI as a programming service”.
You may be wondering who we are and why we wrote this book.
Important lessons from trying to build the world's fastest autorouter for about a year
It's a purely mechanical adapter that relies on smarts in the mouse itself.
Want to master Clean Architecture? Go here: https://bit.ly/3PupkOJ Want to unlock Modular Monoliths? Go here: https://bit.ly/3SXlzSt Get the source code here: https://www.patreon.com/milanjovanovic Check out my courses: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/cours…
Welcome back, coders! Now that you’ve dipped your toes into the htmx waters, it’s time to wade in a little deeper. Today, we’re diving headfirst into htmx attributes — the secret sauce that makes your Razor Pages dance with interactivity. So, buckle up and get…
Better search results with no ads. Welcome to Kagi (pronounced kah-gee), a paid search engine that gives power back to the user.
Some time ago, I saw where they make artificial sunlight at home with a 500W LED and a gigantic (1.2m) parabolic reflector. I've been fascinated by this pro...
The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow Leopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how mu…
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My previous post showed how easy it is to develop a .NET C# MCP server and write a client able to communicate with it. Now, the question is how we can distribute our MCP server to be used by AI clients. In this post, we’ll leverage the knowledge acquired from …
I’ve always been curious about the money habits of successful, wealthy people. Often, these habits are what lead them to become extremely rich. We need specific habits to help us succeed and build our wealth to achieve our financial goals and we can adopt some…
OpenAI's 4o Image Generation capability launched two days ago on March 25th, 2025. The quality of the images it creates is the best among all contemporary models by a large margin. However, what is most interesting is the way it seems to generate the image: fi…
...would I have imagined my video on whether a pigeon is faster than the Internet would end up on a popular Italian quiz show, L'Eredita. Specifically, in the March 26th episode (playable in Italy, or with an account).
When you're improvising a comedy scene, the golden rule is to respond with "yes, and" to everything your partners say and do. This unwavering acceptance can produce riotous bouts of laughter. In an engineering team, it just creates unholy messes.
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The PS2 is more than capable of doing some wild things, including running Linux. I always wondered if we could just write baremetal Go code on it, so I decided to give it a try.
The landscape of Large Language Models (LLMs) is evolving rapidly, with powerful and open models being released at an unprecedented pace. As these technologies advance, so does the potential to integrate them into our existing systems. Traditionally, we've bui…
a collection of cybersecurity-related notes & projects.
Running content blockers in your browser is a good idea–yes, you block ads, but you also block malware, cryptominers, tracking, and more. In general, the experience of using the web with a good content blocker should be noticeably faster, as you skip downloadi…
ORMs promise to abstract databases and SQL. At any normal scale, this promise fails and the ORM becomes a powerful multiplier of pointless complexity
Discover MCP Tools, a powerful CLI for interacting with Model Context Protocol servers using stdio transport. Learn how to discover and call tools, list resources, and interact with MCP-compatible services.
The Siren Song of New Tech Every morning, I open Twitter to find my feed transformed into an AI wonderland.
At some companies, it is expected that certain engineers will serve as part of a formal on-call rotation. On paper, this seems like a reasonable way to ensure the reliability of the product. In practice, it is a miserable burden and you probably won't even get…
My journey building one of the most popular Agent Libraries
One striking feature of modern artificial intelligence, especially in large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, is their ability to instantly generate surprisingly advanced software engineering solutions. One interpretation of this phenomenon is …