Get ready for blending on-the-go.

I have a problem: I'm addicted to making new repositories on GitHub. As part of my advocacy role at Microsoft, my goal is to show developers how to combine technology X with technology Y, and a repository is a great way to prove it. But that means I now have hundreds of repositories that I am trying...

🤦 Intro - The rantings of a muffn # As usual, I’m doing substantial yapping before the guide, if you don’t like reading and/or know what you’re doing, jump to the guide Here we are again. Politicians making laws about technology they fundamentally don’t understand, wrapped up in the classic “think o...

During a global sports event, PubNub handled a record 973 million requests per minute, enabling real-time interactions like chat, reactions, and synchronized live stats for millions of fans worldwide. Discover how our scalable infrastructure ensured zero downtime and seamless experiences at unpreced...

During a global sports event, PubNub handled a record 973 million requests per minute, enabling real-time interactions like chat, reactions, and synchronized live stats for millions of fans worldwide. Discover how our scalable infrastructure ensured zero downtime and seamless experiences at unpreced...

AI in healthcare is no longer theory. It’s showing up in real hospitals, solving specific problems. Not just in research papers or flashy demos, but in production. This post walks through five recent examples where AI made a real difference. No hype, just what was built, what problem it tackled, and...

The base expectation for engineers is that you don't just build whatever you're asked.

tl;dr: State of HTML 2025 survey is now open! Take it now Mamma mia, here we go again! About two weeks ago, I announced that I was back leading this year’s State of HTML 2025 survey, after a one year hiatus. We are grateful for all the suggestions that poured in, they were immensely helpful in shapi...

We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.17.1 with a regression bug fix. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions. Stats Section titled Stats This release includes 2 changes since 1.17.0 by...

Developers love using Neon branches for a local development, due to the agility they provide (e.g. fast resets, isolated environments, and the ability to test without polluting production data). But using Neon branches still requires you to manage separate connection strings for different branches a...

When we're building automation tools in 2025, I see two main approaches: Agent + MCP: Point an LLM-powered Agent at MCP servers, give the Agent a detailed description of the task, and let the Agent decide which tools to use to complete the task. For this approach, we can use an existing Agent from a...

Open-sourced tools put enterprise-grade content safety and threat investigation capabilities within reach of organizations of all sizes

It’s mind-boggling how many in the general public don’t understand this, so let me rant about it for a bit: many companies are designed to lose money this year. That’s the fucking point. Today’s main character energy is the news of WNBA players wearing Pay Us What You Owe Us shirts during the All-St...

Frontier LLMs such as Gemini 2.5 PRO, with their vast understanding of many topics and their ability to grasp thousands of lines of code in a few seconds, are able to extend and amplify the programmer capabilities. If you are able to describe problems in a clear way and, if you are able to accept th...

There is a new CakePHP session authenticator on the block. Status quo Historically, the Session provider in CakePHP 3.x times using the AuthComponent stored an array of your user (entity) in the session upon login. It was accessed using Auth.User, so Auth.User.id was...

Unexpected inconsistency in records The other day, I was trying to figure out a bug in my code, and it turned out to be a misunderstanding on my part as to how C# records work. It’s entirely possible that I’m the only one who expected them to work in the way that I did, but … Continue reading Unexpe...

I’ve talked about how GoReleaser came to be, shared some lessons learned, and more.

In this post, I want to share the history behind GoReleaser, how we got here, lessons I’ve learned along the way, and what’s ahead.

Why It Matters At 8th Light, we help enterprise teams remove friction, foster alignment, and build tools that scale with confidence. This project exemplifies what happens when human-driven design meets technical rigor: major time and cost savings. By focusing on systems thinking, user needs, and res...

When we started working on app.build, we knew in the longer run we wanted to build a generic agent that could build apps with different “coding stacks”. However, for our first release and initial announcement, we could only build apps written with a single fixed stack: In the recent blog post on des...

I work on homomorphic encryption (HE or FHE for “fully” homomorphic encryption) and I have written a lot about it on this blog (see the relevant tag). This article is a collection of short answers to questions I see on various threads and news aggregators discussing FHE. Facts If a service uses FHE ...

In the summer of 2006, I discovered the blossoming world of web APIs: HTTP APIs like the Flickr API, JavaScript APIs like Google Maps API, and platform APIs like the iGoogle gadgets API. I spent my spare time making "mashups": programs that connected together multiple APIs to create new functionalit...

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing how medical images are acquired, analyzed, and interpreted. The transformation ushers in a new era of data-driven diagnostics and faster, more personalized patient care.