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Migrating ridilabs.net: Eleven Years from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress
After more than eleven years on BlogEngine.NET, ridilabs.net now runs on WordPress. The decision was not an easy one. BlogEngine served me well through hundreds of posts, but the hosting bill no longer matched what the site actually is: a personal engineering journal. Cutting that cost meant moving to a platform with cheaper, more commoditized hosting, and WordPress was the…
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One Storage is never enough
For a while I kept everything in one cloud account. It felt convenient until the day I almost lost years of family photos because a sync conflict silently overwrote a folder. That was the…
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Developing for MacOs in Visual Studio 2025
This article provides a complete, step‑by‑step guide for developing macOS applications using VirtualBox, Visual Studio, and .NET MAUI from a Windows environment. It covers system preparation, environment configuration, build workflows, testing, packaging, and distribution.…
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Cloud or NAS the Math for Kaum Mendang Mending
Most household storage advice compares a NAS to Google Drive on price and stops there. That comparison is not very useful, because at this scale the money is close enough that it should not…
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Estimating a Software Project Budget with AI in the Loop
Budget estimation is where most software projects quietly go wrong. Not because teams can’t code, but because the number leaves the room before anyone stress-tested it. This article walks through a practical, repeatable workflow…
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How to Deal with Software Requirement Changes (Without Losing Your Mind)
If you’ve ever worked on a software project, you know the feeling: the requirements you agreed on last month suddenly don’t match what the business needs today. This isn’t rare — it’s one of…
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The AI‑Powered Skillset Every Forward Deployed Engineer Must Master
Forward deployed engineers (FDEs) work at the front lines of technology delivery — inside customer environments, solving urgent problems, and building solutions that bridge product capabilities with real‑world constraints. Today, the role is evolving…
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Configure Visual Studio 2026 with 9 Router
Yes, 9 Router is small Node.js server on your machine that proxies chat requests to 40+ AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, GLM, local Ollama, etc.), with automatic fallback when a subscription hits its quota…
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Save your token, here are the tips to build codes
Tips & Tricks to Save Your Claude Tokens While Building Apps in Visual Studio If you’re pairing Claude with Visual Studio or VS Code for day-to-day .NET development, you’ve probably noticed how fast tokens…
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Your AI Pair Programmer
One programmer, one business analyst, and several fullstack “AI co-developers” — all running through GitHub Copilot with Claude models. Here is the setup, from .md configuration files to team workflow, for both greenfield and…