Category Archives: Essentials
Essential Programmer Utilities
Every two years or so I publish a list of the utilities I find indispensable. It is interesting to me which ones last year after year (e.g., Evernote) and which fall off the list—often because the functionality I want has … Continue reading
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An AI Project
As part of my work of rapidly coming up to speed with creating AI applications, I’ve decided to start an ambitious project, and to bring you with me. I call it HyperVideo.
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Learning AI
Very excited to say that I have purchased 3-4 books in preparation for the Azure AI 900 certification from Microsoft. I will be creating another series here, distilling down what I learn, even while we keep the API series going. … Continue reading
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Azure Functions & Durable Functions
Creating the Project with CoPilot As part of the API tutorials we decided we needed a Database with two tables: Book and Author. Books will join Author and there can be as many authors as we want. Rather than writing … Continue reading
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Joe Dluzen: Durable Azure Functions
I’m happy to announce the start of a new series on creating APIs with C# and .NET—beginning with a series of posts, videos, and podcasts on Azure Functions and Durable Functions. You can find the video here, and the podcast … Continue reading
James Montemagno on Vibe Coding
James is welcomed back to Yet Another Podcast, this time to talk about Vibe Coding with Microsoft’s AI tools. Video https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/complete-beginners-guide-to-vibe-coding-an-app-in-5-minutes https://jamesmontemagno.github.io/podstats https://www.vscodepodcast.com https://www.vscodepodcast.com/6
Lance McCarthy on CoPilot & MCP
Lance takes us through what MCP is, why it is important, and how to work with it. Video You can reach Lance here:https://bsky.app/profile/lance.bostonhttps://twitter.com/l_anceMHttps://dvlup.com
What a fortnight! VS2026 and iOS26
In the past short while, we’ve seen the release of Visual Studio 2026 and iOS-26. They both have great improvements, though if I had to choose, the one that is making the biggest impact on me is, of course, Visual … Continue reading
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Visual Studio 2026! with Mads Kristensen
Visual Studio 2026 is here. Mads takes us through the highlights View this podcast on YouTube
Celebrating 15 years of Yet Another Podcast
Today we are celebrating 15 years of commercial-free podcasting on . NET-related issues. Thank you for your ongoing interest and support. Stay tuned for a very special podcast on Visual Studio coming sometime next week.
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Richie Bonilla and Forage AI Email
Forage is an AI email assistant that sorts your mail into categories, provides a summary once or twice a day (your choice) and summarizes newsletters into bullet points. I talk with Richie Bonilla (CEO and co-founder)* about his startup, what … Continue reading
144,000 users
My site says we just crossed 144,000 users. I’m stunned.
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