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New MCP servers drop every day, and they're genuinely useful — but in an enterprise context, every one of them is a door you're propping open...

The Web Serial API is a browser-based interface that makes it possible to communicate with hardware devices via the serial interface. It is mainly used for communication with development boards such as the ESP32 or Arduino Uno to send and receive dat...

How to embed Schema.org markup in emails to add Track Order buttons, event cards, and more — directly visible in Gmail's inbox view.

GitLab makes it trivial. Here's how to get the same isolated preview environments on GitHub using Azure Static Web Applications and GitHub Actions.

It is good practice to version the pubspec.lock file in a Flutter project. The pubspec.lock file contains an accurate record of the versions of the dependencies (packages) used in your Flutter project. By versioning this file, you ensure that your pr...

OpenAI's API is surprisingly easy to use. It is no different from other REST APIs. So integrating AI into your own software is easy, and we will see AI being integrated into more and more applications. Be it in ticket systems, email clients, content ...

In 2019 (and still in 2022), we probably do not need to create data, we just need to print out one of the famous Twitter channels. Just kidding. :) Sometimes we need millions, I mean gigabytes of test data, which are really close to the data we are u...

How -Xtheirs and -Xours work in git rebase — and why they mean the exact opposite of what you'd expect.

Inspired by my famous CSS YouTuber Kevin Powell and his CSS battles on YouTube, I organised a CSS battle in my company, Netresearch. Why? I noticed how quickly after a few tasks on CSS-battle, I was up to speed again. I learned so many new things, ...

Sending emails with Node-RED is very easy. The email node is easy to configure. Variables can be used in the content area, which we can use to include sensor data, for example. If you want to send an email in HTML format, there is a lot to consider, ...

Purpose In software development, there is sometimes a need to copy a large amount of file from one directory to another. For instance, when you have shared volumes in a Docker environment with different services, some services need to have access to ...

The .gitignore is there to prevent files from ending up in git's version management that have no business being there. You can find them in most repositories in the world. Creating these is a tedious and sometimes tricky task. For example, files that...

Today I was having lunch with IT colleagues and we were talking about our trainee. One colleague who previously worked in another industry thought that his manner was inappropriate for a trainee. When I was an apprentice, I could not have allowed mys...

You Aren't Gonna Need It — why building features before they're requested burns money and complicates codebases.

The year is 2021, and Elon Musk is so scared about AI and its danger to humanity that he is pushing to build big rockets 🚀 to land on Mars as soon as possible. And he has to know it, he is one of the investors in OpenAI, a company (largely owned ...

In pair programming, two developers work simultaneously on one source code. The method helps to develop better software products. Advantages At Netresearch, we use this method and derive many advantages from it: Direct knowledge exchange about meth...

Excuses to do it "It's another project. I don't know much about it. Don't wanna break something, so I just copied it." "I don't have time, maybe later …" "Maybe later on, I want to have something different in each function/template/class, so it's be...

Yah, that's a very emotional speech for a programming design pattern. As a side note, it tells us about the many stories in which they have struggled through complex programming code of their colleagues or even themselves from the past. keep it small...

What I love about my job is that I can listen to my favourite music at any time. I bought extra over-ear headphones because I want to wear them as long as possible without pain. In what other job would I have goose bumps early in the morning? This mo...

@adriantwarog told me in his article "Programmers That Don't Blog Should Start Right Now" to start blogging because every developer should do it. Maybe not all, but I agree that every developer I know who blogs is a good developer. And since I want ...