Mark Farragher

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Pre-orders are live on the new 192GB Framework Desktop! DIY Edition starts at $6,799 USD and ships in November.

Apache Superset (@apachesuperset.bsky.social) just crossed 75,000 stars on GitHub. Self-serve data exploration and dashboarding: connect any SQL database, drag-and-drop or raw SQL to build charts, publish interactive dashboards without writing app code. openalternative.co/apache-supe...

State of SaaS

First few clips for the intro cut together to get a feel. Still a couple of issues to solve. But, it's getting there! Not looking forward to lip sync stuff, though... 😅

In today's free lesson, we explain the cost of a BOX operation in dotNET intermediate language in terms of heap allocation, memory zeroing, type descriptor initialization, and reference placement on the stack. mdftpro.com/play/high-pe...

In April, Microsoft released the upgraded AI-103: Azure AI Agents Developer Associate certification. This is an upgrade for the retired AI-102 exam. Read all about it in our latest blog post: mdftpro.com/blog/microso...

Today's free lesson is from the DP-100 Azure Data Scientist course, and explains how an inference pipeline uses a trained model to generate predictions from new data, then scores and returns predictions through a web service output. mdftpro.com/play/azure-d...

Did you know you can do a lot of data science work in the C# language? There's often no need to switch to python, you can keep using your favorite language instead. As a dotNET developer you have a lot of options. Read more in our blog post: mdftpro.com/blog/courses...

In May, Microsoft released the all new AI-200: Azure AI Cloud Developer Associate certification. And we already have it online on MDFT Pro, all 115 video lessons! Read all about it in our latest blog post: mdftpro.com/blog/microso...

★ Just published: DBeaver – Free database manager for SQL databases and beyond Cross-platform database management tool for exploring, editing, and querying SQL databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, MariaDB, and more. openalternative.co/dbeaver

In today's free lesson (free for the next 72 hours), learn about the small and large object heaps in the #dotNET runtime environment. Knowledge about heap memory management will help you become a better developer and write faster and more efficient #csharp code. mdftpro.com/play/high-pe...

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Microsoft has introduced strict rate limits on Github Copilot this week, making the Pro service basically unusable. This is the final push I needed to switch to Open Weight models. My current setup: OpenCode --> OpenRouter --> GLM 5.

I've come quite far replacing my online tools with more privacy friendly alternatives. I use all of these apps and services on a daily basis.

The future is here

#AIFIXER www.aifixer.nl

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Algebraic creatures Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io

(3/3) My generated code must run in a compiled language, with strong type checking, and within a security sandbox. This is why I stay away from #NodeJS and embrace #Deno instead.

(2/3) I create highly modular app architectures and try to implement each module with off-the-shelf #opensource components. I only use generated code to fill in the gaps, and I strictly separate code and design so that I can easily refactor the design later if needed.

(1/3) After a busy week of #agentic #AI #coding, I've come up with the following strategy: I treat my coding #agent as junior programmers. I run a tight loop where I prompt, and immediately check its work afterwards and refactor if I don't agree with the code. I never let agents run unattended.

During the migration from #OpenAI to #Anthropic, I'm going against the grain by migrating from Anthropic to #GitHub #Copilot Pro 🤪 I'm building an app with #OpenCode, Copilot and #Gemini Pro 3, and it works great. Gemini is great with #typescript and #bootstrap. This is my default agent stack now.

According to the MIT NANDA Report of 2025, 95% of generative AI pilot projects fail to deliver a measurable impact on the P&L. AI FIXER puts you in the 5% that succeeds!

I'm very excited to announce AI FIXER, a new collaboration between Composition8 | Training & Business Consulting and me. 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐈: we help you design AI that makes sense. More at AIFIXER dot NL: www.aifixer.nl #aifixer

Just read this great piece by Thomas Johannsen, a perfect resource for exiting the problematic big tech monopolies (and inspiring you to do so). If you've already made the shift to Bluesky for ethical reasons, here are the next steps in your journey toward digital sainthood.

We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.

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I responded to the @ec.europa.eu public consultation on an #European Open Digital Ecosystem. This is my proposal for an #EU #OpenSource policy: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

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meshcore device www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6IO...

Controversial opinion, but Spain should rebuild her mighty Armada and have one more go at England.

I just linked my first Innr Lighting light bulb to my z-wave powered #homeassistant, and now the light in my study is adaptive and follows the color and brightness of the sun! #homeautomation #happiness

From the trenches of AI coding: Prompt: "Create a plot with ScottPlot" AI: [writes ScottPlot 4.x code, tries to compile] AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote code for v4. Let me fix that." AI: [writes more ScottPlot 4.x code] AI: "I see the problem. You are using v5 and I wrote ...

Software development has now become 'voodoo-coding'. Instead of making a plan and writing short, elegant and performant code to implement the plan, we have been reduced to casting complex magic spells to compel fickle gods to write the code for us.

From the trenches of AI-coding: I'm building an F# machine learning app. I put the cursor at the bottom of the file and tell Copilot to "add a regression pipeline to train a model on the data". Copilot inserts the new code at the top of the file, before the code that actually loads the data.