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.NET 11 Preview 1 Is Here: What's New and What to Expect
20 Feb 2026

.NET 11 Preview 1 Is Here: What's New and What to Expect

By BEN ABT .NET ASP.NET Core Blazor C# 9 min reading time

The .NET team just released the first preview of .NET 11 and there is already a lot to talk about. While this is an early preview - not a release candidate - the breadth of changes touching the runtime, libraries, …

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Agent Skills Standard: The Quality Contract Behind Reliable AI Agents
12 Feb 2026

Agent Skills Standard: The Quality Contract Behind Reliable AI Agents

By BEN ABT Github Copilot AI Agents Prompt Engineering GitHub 8 min reading time

Large language model agents can appear intelligent while still producing unstable output across runs, contexts and tasks. In practice, this instability is rarely caused by model quality alone. The dominant factor is …

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Create a Local SQL Server Database File with .NET
09 Feb 2026

Create a Local SQL Server Database File with .NET

By BEN ABT .NET C# SQL Server LocalDB Testing 4 min reading time

Local SQL Server database files provide a pragmatic way to keep a real SQL Server engine close to the application without provisioning a full server. A LocalDB database lives in a single .mdf file (plus a log file), runs …

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Building Custom AI Tooling with the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET
03 Feb 2026

Building Custom AI Tooling with the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET

By BEN ABT Github Copilot .NET Ai SDK C# 5 min reading time

The landscape of AI development is shifting rapidly from simple chat interfaces to fully integrated, agentic workflows like the Ralph Loop . GitHub has recently introduced the GitHub Copilot SDK , a powerful toolkit that …

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Ralph Loop: Autonomous Coding with GitHub Copilot CLI
19 Jan 2026

Ralph Loop: Autonomous Coding with GitHub Copilot CLI

By BEN ABT GitHub Github Copilot Dotnet 7 min reading time

What if an AI agent could write code, run tests, fix errors and repeat this process autonomously until the job is done? The Ralph Wiggum Method makes this possible with a simple but powerful loop pattern. Named after the …

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Serve SPAs correctly on Cloudflare Workers
05 Jan 2026

Serve SPAs correctly on Cloudflare Workers

By BEN ABT Cloudflare Workers React Spa DevOps 2 min reading time

Single Page Applications like React expect the server to always return index.html and let the client-side router take over. On Cloudflare Workers you can do that without custom code as long as wrangler.toml is set up …

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Automate Pull Request Comments with GitHub Actions
04 Jan 2026

Automate Pull Request Comments with GitHub Actions

By BEN ABT Github Actions DevOps Automation Cloudflare 2 min reading time

When working with Pull Requests (PRs) in GitHub, it is often helpful to provide immediate feedback or relevant information directly in the conversation view. Whether it is a deployment preview URL, code coverage results …

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Build a Custom FeatureGate Attribute in ASP.NET Core with C#
02 Jan 2026

Build a Custom FeatureGate Attribute in ASP.NET Core with C#

By BEN ABT ASP.NET Core C# .NET 4 min reading time

Feature management is a key technique in modern web applications, allowing you to enable or disable features dynamically without redeploying your code. In ASP.NET Core, the Microsoft.FeatureManagement library provides a …

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Install Home Assistant on Synology NAS with Docker
27 Dec 2025

Install Home Assistant on Synology NAS with Docker

By BEN ABT Self-Hosting Home Assistant Synology Docker NAS Smart Home 4 min reading time

Die deutsche Version findest du hier: Home Assistant via Docker auf einer Synology NAS installieren Home Assistant is the “hub” for many smart homes: local-first, extensible and backed by a huge ecosystem. If you …

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Home Assistant via Docker auf einer Synology NAS installieren
27 Dec 2025

Home Assistant via Docker auf einer Synology NAS installieren

By BEN ABT Self-Hosting Home Assistant Synology Docker NAS Smart Home 5 min reading time

You can find the English version of this guide here: Install Home Assistant on Synology NAS with Docker Home Assistant ist für viele der “Hub” im Smart Home: lokal, erweiterbar, mit riesigem Ökosystem. Wenn du bereits …

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