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Practical tips, how-tos, useful links, and discoveries — focused on a specific idea or task.

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2026-07-02 · 2 min read
Not Every Forward Deployed Engineer Is Actually an FDE

What distinguishes forward-deployed engineering from implementation consulting: turning customer experience into product improvements through access, contribution, and feedback.

02.
2026-05-27 · 3 min read
What kind of writer are you? Copilot can tell

Using Copilot to analyze personal writing and create a reusable voice guide, with concrete constraints for technical language, structure, multilingual differences, and humor.

03.
2026-02-17 · 3 min read
Where's Zoé? - How to support accents and diacritics in Fabric Data Agents

Why a Fabric Data Agent can miss Zoé when searching for zoe, how accent-insensitive SQL collations help, and when a normalized column is better for performance.

04.
2026-02-06 · 2 min read
2026-16 - Interesting reads

Notes on an agent-built C compiler, the role of testing and tooling in autonomous software development, and why language-model benchmarks should reward uncertainty.

05.
2025-02-22 · 4 min read
Practical tips to manage your inbox

A practical email routine built around an inbox that fits on one screen, separate external and CC inboxes, color coding, snoozing, and a daily email budget.

06.
2025-02-13 · 6 min read
Best practices for Azure SQL Serverless and Fabric Databases

Practical ways to use Azure SQL Serverless and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric: auto-pause, caching, connection settings, wake-up monitoring, user feedback, and delayed writes.

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2025-02-04 · 2 min read
Rebuilding My Blog - Don’t Wait Until It’s Finished to Make It Happen

Rebuilding a blog without waiting for perfection, and using Outlook, Azure Functions, and GitHub Actions to publish Markdown notes directly from email.

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2022-10-25 · 2 min read
Get your SQL Server dev environment ready in one click

Learn how to use Visual Studio Code and GitHub Codespaces to launch an Azure SQL/SQL Server dev environment in one click, thanks to Devcontainers.

09.
2022-02-16 · 3 min read
Deploy Meilisearch on Azure in One Click

A blazing-fast search engine hosted in seconds.

10.
2020-05-19 · 5 min read
Deploy Blazor WebAssembly apps to Azure Static Web Apps

Azure Static Web Apps is a new service that allows you to easily deploy your Static web apps. As I'm working on a little Blazor Client App (with WebAssembly), It seems perfect to host it on Azure Sta…