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Give Me Every Nth Row: Reproducible Sampling in SQL Server and EF Core

For a recent project, I needed a small, representative sample of a large table. Here's the sampling approach I landed on.

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Want Better Design-to-Code Results from Your Coding Agent? Start with a Design System.

If you want a coding agent to implement screen and interaction designs reliably , the first step is building a solid design system in code.

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Human Habits for Leading Agentic Development Projects

If you're leading an agentic development project and feel like it's taking some time to get your bearings, you aren't alone.

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Is GitHub Actions Putting Your Software at Risk?

A compromised npm package usually impacts an application runtime. Compromised GitHub Actions can have much larger blast radius.

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The Value of In-Person Backlog Management Tools

Most junior devs have never done software design without virtual backlog management. Let's talk about in-person backlog management tools.

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How to Auto-Sort Your Angular Imports

Learn how to set up automatic import sorting in your Angular project using the simple-import-sort ESLint plugin — no more manual sorting.

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I Almost Built Another Internal Web App

If you've got an internal web app idea, don’t ask, "Should I build it?" Instead, ask, "Am I reaching for the right tool for the job?"

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Graph-Style Queries vs. Joins: When Your REST API Hits a Wall

I had a breaking point with a list page that needed to filter by data three relationships away from the root entity. The join got ugly fast.

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From Unity Prototypes to Production Pipelines: Growing Into C#

Learning C# on a large database migration taught me how LINQ, pattern matching, snapshot testing, and domain knowledge compound over time.

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How My Software Development Team Upgraded Expo in a Monorepo

Recently, my software development team needed to upgrade our Expo version (it was at 52). Doing so in a monorepo containing multiple web and mobile apps was a big job

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How I Created a Security Advisory with GitHub

I created a vulnerability in a project. When I discovered it, I used fixing it as an opportunity to try the security advisory process.

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Help! I Inherited a Frankenstein Codebase (And I’m All Out of Coffee)

A codebase could end up in a Frankenstein state for many reasons, and improving a poorly-built codebase is a marathon, not a sprint.

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