Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 34, 2026

Week 34 roundup: sub-second real-time analytics with Fabric Eventstream and KQL, and Matt Pocock's /wayfinder skill for planning through the fog of war.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 23, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 32, 2026

Week 32 roundup: MCP vs Agent Skills settled, Steve Yegge's Continuous Thunderdome, a polyglot unit-test agent, auto mode as Claude Code's default, and imposter syndrome in the AI era.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 9, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 20, 2026

Week 20 tech roundup: Microsoft's Aspire team learns that AI makes production cheaper but maintenance harder, Perplexity reveals how they design and maintain agent skills at scale, and a sharp essay argues agentic coding is a cognitive trap.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, May 17, 2026

Interesting Stuff - Week 10, 2026

Week 10 tech roundup: Netflix battles kernel-level mount lock contention at scale, Confluent explores autonomous data systems for real-time decisioning, Steve Yegge federates a thousand Gas Towns into the Wasteland, and Anthropic's Skill-Creator plugin brings rigorous testing to agent skills.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, March 8, 2026

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Technology musings about coding and data. Some topics: .NET, SQL Server, AI/ML, Big Data, Streaming, Kafka, Azure Data Explorer, and a lot more.