Three months ago, I stumbled upon a simple practice that changed everything. My code quality scores jumped from 6.2 to 8.7. My bug reports dropped by 73%. Pull request reviews became faster and more focused. The secret? A 20-minute daily review ritual that most developers skip. The Problem Every Developer Faces You write code all…
Let’s be honest, the whispers about AI taking over jobs have been around for a while. But what was once a distant hum is now a roaring conversation, and for good reason. The impact of Artificial Intelligence on the job market isn’t just a possibility; it’s an inevitable transformation that’s already reshaping how we work,…
Deploying your Laravel application to a VPS gives you full control over your environment, performance, and security. In this guide, you’ll learn how to deploy Laravel from GitHub to a VPS using the LEMP stack (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP). Step 1: Connect to Your VPS and Update the System Start by connecting to your VPS…
On June 26, 2025, we hosted a power-packed AWS User Group Toronto meetup as part of Toronto Tech Week—and what an incredible evening it was! From AI-powered developer tools to real-world cloud architecture insights, the event was a celebration of learning, building, and community connection. 🛠️ Hands-On Workshop: Smarter Way to Work in CLI with…
On June 26, 2025, we hosted a power-packed AWS User Group Toronto meetup as part of Toronto Tech Week—and what an incredible evening it was! From AI-powered developer tools to real-world cloud architecture insights, the event was a celebration of learning, building, and community connection. 🛠️ Hands-On Workshop: Smarter Way to Work in CLI with…
On June 26, 2025, we hosted a power-packed AWS User Group Toronto meetup as part of Toronto Tech Week—and what an incredible evening it was! From AI-powered developer tools to real-world cloud architecture insights, the event was a celebration of learning, building, and community connection. 🛠️ Hands-On Workshop: Smarter Way to Work in CLI with…
I use my webcam constantly for streaming and I’m pretty familiar with all the internals and how the camera model on Windows works. I also use OBS extensively, so I regularly use the OBS virtual camera and flow everything through Open Broadcasting Studio. For my podcast, I use Zencastr which is a web-based app that…
See the canonical version of this blog post at the Microsoft Open Source Blog! Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important place in history and is a fascinating read of an operating…
I’ve been doing not just Unit Testing for my sites but full on Integration Testing and Browser Automation Testing as early as 2007 with Selenium. Lately, however, I’ve been using the faster and generally more compatible Playwright. It has one API and can test on Windows, Linux, Mac, locally, in a container (headless), in my…
Large-scale language models can now plan, reason and act in multi-step scenarios. That power comes with a question no prompt can dodge: Will the model stay aligned when its interests conflict with ours? Anthropic’s latest red-teaming campaign put that to the test—and the results are unsettling. What Happened? In a controlled simulation, researchers gave Claude…
