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Local Aspire Development with Azure Cosmos DB and the Preview Emulator
24 Jun 2026

Local Aspire Development with Azure Cosmos DB and the Preview Emulator

By BEN ABT .NET Aspire Azure Cosmos DB ASP.NET Core Azure 14 min reading time

Distributed applications tend to feel straightforward until a real cloud dependency enters the picture. Azure Cosmos DB is a good example. In Azure, the preferred model is usually clear: the application should connect …

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Using MiMo V2.5 with GitHub Copilot BYOK and OpenCode Zen (Promo)
27 May 2026

Using MiMo V2.5 with GitHub Copilot BYOK and OpenCode Zen (Promo)

By BEN ABT VS Code Github Copilot BYOK OpenCode Ai MiMo 9 min reading time

MiMo V2.5 is the latest reasoning and coding model from Xiaomi’s AI lab. Xiaomi positions MiMo as a general-purpose reasoning model with particular strength in code generation, structured output and tool calling. In May …

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Using OpenAI Models in VS Code with GitHub Copilot BYOK
24 May 2026

Using OpenAI Models in VS Code with GitHub Copilot BYOK

By BEN ABT VS Code Github Copilot BYOK OpenAI Ai 8 min reading time

GitHub Copilot’s pricing shift from flat premium request units to token-based GitHub AI Credits, scheduled for June 1, 2026, changes the economics of heavy AI usage in VS Code meaningfully. Models with large context …

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Using Kimi K2.5 and DeepSeek V4 in VS Code with GitHub Copilot BYOK and OpenCode
23 May 2026

Using Kimi K2.5 and DeepSeek V4 in VS Code with GitHub Copilot BYOK and OpenCode

By BEN ABT VS Code Github Copilot BYOK OpenCode Ai DeepSeek Kimi 10 min reading time

GitHub Copilot is moving into a different cost model. GitHub announced that Copilot plans will transition from premium request units to GitHub AI Credits on June 1, 2026. Usage will be calculated from token consumption, …

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Zero-Code REST API Mocking with json-server for Angular and React
21 May 2026

Zero-Code REST API Mocking with json-server for Angular and React

By BEN ABT Angular React Frontend Tooling Mock Rest 10 min reading time

Frontend development often hits a practical wall early: the backend API does not exist yet, is unreachable in local environments, or is shared between multiple teams and cannot be safely modified during development. The …

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Cloudflare Workers with wrangler.toml: Preview URLs, production routes and SEO-safe SPA handling
10 May 2026

Cloudflare Workers with wrangler.toml: Preview URLs, production routes and SEO-safe SPA handling

By BEN ABT Cloudflare Workers Seo Devops Spa GitHub Actions 9 min reading time

Cloudflare Workers can separate production and preview traffic cleanly without sacrificing canonical URL control. For search visibility, that detail matters more than the mere existence of preview links. The production …

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Azure Static Web Apps with GitHub Actions: Pull Request Preview Environments, automatic teardown and stable production URLs
06 May 2026

Azure Static Web Apps with GitHub Actions: Pull Request Preview Environments, automatic teardown and stable production URLs

By BEN ABT Azure GitHub 13 min reading time

Azure Static Web Apps has one feature that is easy to underestimate until a team starts using it seriously: pull requests can behave like first-class deployment units.

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Backing Up GitHub Repositories on Synology NAS with gickup
23 Apr 2026

Backing Up GitHub Repositories on Synology NAS with gickup

By BEN ABT GitHub Synology Docker Git 10 min reading time

GitHub is an operational platform, not a backup strategy. For a long time, that distinction often felt theoretical because GitHub is - usually - highly available and because Git itself already distributes history well. …

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The new Microsoft Testing Platform for .NET: An introduction with practical samples and migration guidance
25 Mar 2026

The new Microsoft Testing Platform for .NET: An introduction with practical samples and migration guidance

By BEN ABT .NET Testing 14 min reading time

Testing in .NET has historically been associated with VSTest. That choice was reasonable for a long time because VSTest offered broad tooling support, deep IDE integration and a familiar execution model for MSTest, xUnit …

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GitHub Copilot - Custom Agents for Full-Stack Teams: A Practical Operating Model for .NET, React and Azure
17 Mar 2026

GitHub Copilot - Custom Agents for Full-Stack Teams: A Practical Operating Model for .NET, React and Azure

By BEN ABT Github Copilot Custom Agents AI Agents .NET React Azure Testing Documentation 15 min reading time

GitHub Copilot custom agents allow teams to define specialized AI assistants, each with its own role, tool access and behavioral boundaries. Instead of relying on one general-purpose assistant for everything, a team can …

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