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Practical tips, how-tos, useful links, and discoveries — focused on a specific idea or task.
2026
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
2025
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
2022
- 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.
- Deploy Meilisearch on Azure in One Click
A blazing-fast search engine hosted in seconds.
2020
- 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…