16h ago · 6 min read · The April update to Visual Studio 2026 (version 18.5.0) just dropped, and it's the most agentic Visual Studio release I've seen yet. Microsoft isn't just adding AI features anymore — they're rearchitecting the IDE around autonomous workflows that run...
Join discussion1d ago · 8 min read · The Builder Who Builds Too Fast Imagine you're hiring a contractor to build your house. You get three bids. Two of them say six months. One says three weeks. Your gut reaction to the three-week bid? Something's wrong. They must be cutting corners. Th...
Join discussion1d ago · 10 min read · Two Clients, One Weekend, Zero Excuses Agentive context engineering turned what should have been a month-long grind into a three-day sprint. A few weeks ago, two people needed websites at the same time. One was an e-commerce site for a pickleball bra...
Join discussion2d ago · 7 min read · The setup I'm building a demo environment to illustrate how managed services can be governed within an Internal Developer Portal (IDP). The scenario: three Sportradar microservices — feed-normalization, match-events-ingest, odds-calculation-engine — ...
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2d ago · 6 min read · The setup I'm building a comparison page inside repOptics that shows how my repo-level scoring tool stacks up against Port.io's org-scale software catalog. The plan was simple: use Port's GitHub Ocean integration to sync my repos into their catalog, ...
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3d ago · 6 min read · Rubber Duck Now Works With Any Model Family On May 7, GitHub expanded Rubber Duck — the cross-family review agent I covered when it launched last month — to work bidirectionally across model families. When Rubber Duck first shipped in experimental mo...
Join discussion6d ago · 5 min read · The Week Security Got Runtime Context This week GitHub shipped something I didn't expect to see this fast: code-to-cloud correlation at GA. Microsoft Defender for Cloud integration is now generally available, connecting your source code to what's act...
Join discussionMay 5 · 9 min read · Nicole Forsgren just dropped a new book, and I absolutely CONSUMED it. It's called Frictionless: seven steps to help engineering teams move faster in the age of AI. Forsgren created DORA. She created SPACE. She wrote Accelerate, the book that fundame...
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May 4 · 6 min read · Last week, Visual Studio shipped its April update (18.5), and the theme is clear: the IDE is evolving from a text editor with AI suggestions into an agent orchestrator. Cloud agents now launch directly from the IDE, custom agents travel with you acro...
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