Mark Downie - PoppaString

I spent a few days in Detroit, primarily to visit the Detroit Institute of Arts and its world-class collection.

Blacksky is frequently described as an alternative to Bluesky.

On July 19, 2026, Levent Alpöge posted a tweet with a few lines of polynomial that closed an 87-year-old question in mathematics.

Reverse Information Paradox by Satya Nadella: … In the AI age, the buyer risks giving away knowledge, just in order to use what they bought.

Some time ago I wrote A Kind of Blue to explain why the Blue theme did not survive the Fluent refresh in Visual Studio.

Most predictions about the AI era assume one outcome across the whole software industry.

GitHub moved Copilot from Premium Request Units to AI Credits this week, and developers on Reddit were reporting within hours that a single Claude Sonnet prompt had burned half a month of credits, and that a $100 Max plan could be exhausted inside a day.

I worked at a startup in Toledo called Heartland Information Services.

Software brain, AI backlash, databases, and automation by Nilay Patel on Decoder: I've been calling it software brain, and it's a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases and loops — software.

A developer told me recently that Visual Studio 2022 just works for him.

I built an MCP server this week.

Microsoft announced three new first‑party MAI models this week, all available through Foundry.

Steve Sanderson from the GitHub Copilot coding agent team walks through the techniques and mental models that make the Copilot tools feel like a genuine part of a new engineering process.

I finally did it!

A colleague shared a newsletter with me titled The Shape of Leadership by Mike Fisher, here is an excerpt: The V-formation is the one most of us are familiar with in organizations.

Color has become one of the most important tools in my daily development workflow.

I found this excerpt from Did Skills Kill MCP?

My brother gifted me a Diamond Back Ascent in the early 90s, I remember it was snowing when he dropped it off, but literally overnight the world opened up to me.

The Verge has delivered some of the year’s best interviews with a variety of tech CEOs, and this end‑of‑year conversation between IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and Nilay Patel may actually be my favorite.

Fascinating (frightening?)