Niels Berglund

Interesting Stuff - Week 51, 2025

Week 51, 2025 tech roundup: SQL Server log shipping scripts, router-based AI agent architectures, vector DB myths debunked, Claude Code's plan mode revealed, and Karpathy's LLM year-in-review. Final post of 2025!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 21, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 50, 2025

Week 50, 2025: AI agents transform software development with Hugging Face Skills, Agent Lightning, Compound Engineering, and MCP standardization. Plus Data & AI Durban finale.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 14, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 49, 2025

Week 49 tech roundup: Control-plane AI architectures, Claude Opus 4.5's aggressive coding style, Claude Code Desktop hands-on, Go vs Rust vs Zig philosophy, and beginner barriers to AI-assisted development.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, December 7, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 48, 2025

Week 48 AI roundup: Open-source pg-aiguide teaches LLMs production PostgreSQL, Claude Opus 4.5 drops to $5/25 per million tokens, deep agent architectures explained.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, November 30, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 42, 2025

Week 42 tech roundup: Netflix's 5M records/sec distributed graph system, training GPT-2 models for $92, AI-powered COBOL modernization, Claude Haiku 4.5's frontier performance at 1/3 the cost, plus Agent Skills' innovative approach to AI specialization. .NET CONF South Africa Community Edition heads to Durban on Nov 15!

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 19, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 41, 2025

Discover Week 41's biggest AI agent breakthroughs: OpenAI's AgentKit platform, Stanford's AgentFlow reinforcement learning, Anthropic's Claude Code plugins, and Jesse Vincent's mind-bending Superpowers system. Plus insights from Data & AI Community Day Durban.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, October 12, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 36, 2025

Discover how TimescaleDB delivers 979x faster performance than PostgreSQL, Claude Code transforms from autocomplete to autonomous engineering teams, and agentic AI revolutionizes customer experience beyond chatbots. Week 36 tech insights on database optimization, AI-assisted coding workflows, and enterprise automation strategies that are reshaping software development at scale.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, September 7, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 35, 2025

Week 35 tech roundup: Discover why the cheapest AI model beats expensive ones at human behavior, Anthropic's Claude for Chrome security challenges, and Claude Code's developer revolution. Plus: .NET Conf SA returns to Durban after years.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 31, 2025

Building an Event Management System with Claude Code: Part 2 - IDE Integration and Advanced Features

Learn VS Code integration with Claude Code for AI-assisted development. Includes WSL setup, CLAUDE.md configuration, and building your first API endpoints.

Posted by nielsb on Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Interesting Stuff - Week 31, 2025

Discover the latest AI breakthroughs transforming development and learning: OpenAI's Study Mode, LLM writing benchmarks, NotebookLM's video features, GitHub Copilot onboarding, and Claude's agent architecture. Plus insights from building with Claude Code.

Posted by nielsb on Sunday, August 3, 2025

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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.