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Build 2026 has hundreds of sessions. Good luck finding the five that actually matter to you. That's the problem, right? You open the session catalog, you type a keyword, you get 40 results. You start reading abstracts. You open tabs. You lose track. You end up bookmarking sessions you'll never watch because by the time …
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What if your AI assistant could read all of Microsoft Learn? Not a cached snapshot. Not a training cutoff from months ago. The actual, living documentation — updated in real time, searchable by concept, with code samples included. That's exactly what the Microsoft Learn MCP server does. And it has quietly become one of …
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What do you do when you've been documenting your AI journey in blog posts, and you realize you want to see the data, not just describe it? You build a dashboard. Obviously. 😊 The itch Throughout this series, I've been talking about phases, milestones, evolution. In Part 7 I even calculated ROI manually during a …
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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, it'll …
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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 back …
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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. It all started with a Microsoft internal session on GitHub Copilot, delivered by Scott Hanselman. Something about the way he demonstrated it sparked my …
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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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For years and years, we all have been copying an pasting stuff on our PC. Chances are real that you typically had to copy specific things over and over again and that this action cost you a lot of time. The so called "problem" was that there could be only one item stored in the clipboard and each time something was …
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