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

2026

  1. Not Every Forward Deployed Engineer Is Actually an FDE · 2 min

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

  2. What kind of writer are you? Copilot can tell · 3 min

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

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

    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.

  4. 2026-16 - Interesting reads · 2 min

    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

  1. Practical tips to manage your inbox · 4 min

    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.

  2. Best practices for Azure SQL Serverless and Fabric Databases · 6 min

    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.

  3. Rebuilding My Blog - Don’t Wait Until It’s Finished to Make It Happen · 2 min

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

2022

  1. Get your SQL Server dev environment ready in one click · 2 min

    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.

  2. Deploy Meilisearch on Azure in One Click · 3 min

    A blazing-fast search engine hosted in seconds.

2020

  1. Deploy Blazor WebAssembly apps to Azure Static Web Apps · 5 min

    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…