Today I had a deployment that was working yesterday. Today it wasn't. What followed was one of those debugging sessions that perfectly illustrates both the power and the economics of working with GitHub Copilot. If you've been following this series (starting with Part 1: The First Ask ), you know the progression: from …

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In Part 5 , I described the compound effect — what happens when trust, depth, breadth, and infrastructure all stack up. I thought that was the end of the story. It wasn't. Somewhere around week seven, I stopped talking to one Copilot. I started assembling squads. (I realize that sounds dramatic — but bear with me, …

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Two months ago, I asked an AI to explain an error message. Last week, I built a complete web application — frontend, backend, authentication, infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, monitoring dashboards — in a single afternoon session of 122 exchanges. This is the final part of the series (well, almost — more on that in a …

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Eight weeks ago, I accidentally committed a secret to a public repository. Last week, I was designing authentication architectures with managed identities and federated credentials. Same person. Same tool. Completely different confidence level. This post is about the most transformative phase of my journey: when I …

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I hired a coding assistant. Then I realized it's not a coding assistant. It's a thinking assistant that happens to be really good at code. In Part 1 I built the reflex. In Part 2 I learned to go deep. Part 3 is about going wide — and to me, this is where things got really interesting. The category explosion Looking …

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Most people use AI like a search engine: one question, one answer, done. To me, the real power unlocks when you keep going. In Part 1 , I described the reflex shift — replacing Google with a direct question. That's stage one. Stage two is what happens when you stop leaving after the first answer. And honestly, I …

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I spent 20 minutes googling an error message. Then I asked an AI, got the answer in 8 seconds, and spent the next 10 minutes wondering why I hadn't done that sooner. To me, this is a story about trust. Not the blind kind — the calibrated kind. The kind you build one correct answer at a time, and that honestly takes a …

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A while ago, I read/studied this new book, which is written by Nagaraj Venkatesan and Ahmad Osama. At the time, I wanted to write about it, but I never got around to it because of a lack of time. Now, I finally got to it and I hope it will help you in your journey of understanding/becoming an Azure Data Engineer. (Or …

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Last week, I completed the certification exam for "Azure data engineer associate" (DP-203). Since I put in quite some effort and successfully completed the exam in one go, I wanted to share how I studied and which materials I studied . First of al, my background is not in the data world. This means that I was missing …

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I read/studied this book, written by as part of my certification journey towards "Azure Data Engineer". In this post, I want to discuss the book and how it has helped me in studying for my certification exam. A lot of the materials out there cover the different technologies, that are covered in the exam, and "glue" …

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Last month, I wanted to Learn more about Azure bicep and in that context I started looking for interesting content. One of the resources that I found is the book "Getting started with Bicep: infra as code on Azure" (link) The goal of this post/review is provide you with a overview of the book written by Freek Berson . …

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Last month, I have been using some of my spare time to read up Azure bicep . The goal was to learn about this (relatively) new technology/language. Because I want to help you find your way in to this domain of (Azure Specific) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tech, I wrote something about it. I hope that it will help you …

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Last week I found a little gem that is too good to keep it for myself. For years, I have been using (and working with) Microsoft Azure and in all this time and it is only now that this cool website pops up! In order to better understand what I'm talking about, I need to go a little more in detail in the design process …

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Today, I'm going to write about a lesser known feature that you can find in Microsoft Edge (but also in Google Chrome). Both are chromium based browsers and both have the well known and widely used "Guest mode". This mode allows you to work in Edge (or in chrome) without the (security) context that you have in your …

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This morning I saw a colleague working in Git-Bash and the good-old-fashioned "windows command line" and I thought to myself, why doesn't he "just" use Windows terminal? So, I showed him Windows Terminal and he was impressed. First thing he asked then, was if it would be possible to add Git-Bash as a tab. Wel yes, I …

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