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[PROPOSAL -> @Reader] TL;AI is a proposed way of structuring AI responses, built on several established principles of written communication.

## Abstract Resilience is commonly evaluated through availability, fault tolerance, recovery time and the frequency of failure.

I have spent far too long trying to answer what should have been a simple question: Should I keep my grandfathered GitHub Copilot Pro plan at $100 per year that runs out in December 2026, or move to Copilot Pro+ at $39 per month?

Temporal Nexus is one of the most interesting things in Temporal right now.

Date: 5 July 2026 Repository checked: temporalio/sdk-dotnet on main and nexus-api-gen-signal-with-start Docs checked: Temporal .NET Nexus quickstart and feature guide Scope: Public preview Nexus support in the .NET SDK Executive summary The core idea is g…

Retries are not durable execution.

Part 8: The New Power Map This final chapter gathers the whole series into one question: after the bubble breaks, which layers actually own the durable value?

Part 7: After the Crash Part 6 described the convergence that breaks belief.

Part 6: Breaking Point Part 5 argued that AI changes not only software, but the cost structure of the firm itself.

Part 5: Firmware Part 4 argued that AI changes the economics of software.

Part 4: SaaS Was a Compromise Part 3 argued that the durable moat in AI is unlikely to sit neatly inside the model API.

Part 3: Moats Part 2 made the distinction between utility and capture.

Part 2: Prototypes Part 1 argued that markets routinely misprice real paradigm shifts by pricing the mature economy too early.

Part 1: Echoes The business cards in the drawer I still have two packs of business cards from people I met at investor and founder events in San Francisco around 2000.

Preface: The Return This series begins with a claim that sounds contradictory until you sit with it for a while: The AI bubble will not burst because AI is fake.

1) Introduction I’ve been thinking a lot about how debugging has evolved.

Introduction In this post, we'll walk through the process of creating a .NET Aspire Hosting Extension for webhook testing, publishing it as a NuGet package, and integrating it into an Aspire app.

Introduction Did you know that programmers have a pattern called rubber duck debugging?

Building a Distributed Workflow App with .NET Aspire and Temporal Part 3: Securing Workflow State with Payload Encryption and Codec Servers In the first post, I showed you how to put together a resilient, distributed workflow-powered example application u…

Building a Distributed Workflow App with .NET Aspire and Temporal Part 2: Deploying a Temporal-based Workflow App with .NET Aspire to Kubernetes In the first post, I showed you how to put together a resilient, distributed workflow-powered example applicat…

Building a Distributed Workflow App with .NET Aspire and Temporal Part 1: Architecting a Temporal-based Workflow App with .NET Aspire In this post, I will kick off a multi-part series on building and deploying a resilient, distributed workflow-powered exa…

AstroPaper v5 is here, bringing full support for Astro v5 and a host of improvements!

The Five Waves of Distributed Resilience This post is the first in a multi-part series exploring the evolution and future of resilient distributed systems.

Background I recently wrote about moving away from WordPress and DigitalOcean, but I still want to have the option to deploy my web applications to my own VPS.

Background I've been a customer of Digital Ocean for about ten years, initially running an Ubuntu VPS server with Virtualmin/Webmin, and later moving to Plesk.

Integrating Giscus Comments in AstroPaper v5 Adding interactive comments to a static blog can be a challenge, but with Giscus, we can integrate GitHub-powered discussions into an AstroPaper v5 blog.

Moving Content to Astro Over the years, my blog has lived in various platforms, including a custom blog written in ASP.NET and XML, Blogger, and multiple versions of WordPress.

Microsoft Excel is a staple in organizations of all sizes, spreading through office corridors with the ubiquity of a contagious element.

After pondering the question for quite some time, and reflecting on the many exceptionally talented developers I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the years and work with now, I have finally decided to articulate my thoughts on what truly defines an

A couple of years ago I worked on a system that performed automated income verification for banks processing mortgage applications.

I work on a .NET application that uses NServiceBus.

Whilst I am a big fan of ServiceStack for building REST APIs, it switched last year from a free open-source tool to a licensed business model.

Principles for making things for the web This a list-in-progress of things I try to keep in mind when working on web projects.

The JavaScript module is a great design pattern for JavaScript coders.

I've recently been setting this website up to use SSL.

Axure RP gives you the wireframing, prototyping and documentation tools needed to make informed design choices, persuade any skeptics, and document your design... and maybe win a few fans along the way.

I've recently been redirecting one website content to another.

I recently had the requirement to add a new column to a large but not massive table, which had over 12 million rows.

P versus NP is a fundamental question in computer science and mathematics that addresses the relationship between the complexity classes P and NP.

I had a bad day yesterday.

One of the quickest and easiest ways to make a database more performant is to reduce how much space the data takes up.

A while back I wanted to set up database migrations on a .NET project I was working on.

This has been annoying me for a while.

One of our long standing clients has just given us with the task of moving over 1.5TB of files and documents stored in Rackspace's Managed Hosting data centre to the cloud; namely Rackspace Cloud Files.

It is easier to provide the list of things that are worth worrying about than it is to list the things that are safe.

Title: "The Great Browser Wars of 2014: A Dramatic Retelling" If you’ve been on the internet long enough (i.e., more than five minutes), you’ve undoubtedly witnessed the Great Browser Wars—a battle more intense than any game of Risk, more dramatic than any

For some reason the nerd in me really likes teletype effects.

As a developer, the ability to open a command prompt from within Explorer in the current folder, or selected folder is really useful.

When you upload a file using AJAX and then reply using a JSON response, Internet Explorer decides to interpret the response as something to download to disk or open.

Unirest is a set of lightweight HTTP libraries available in multiple languages.