Rethinking DevRel and Community in times of AI
AI, Community, DevRel and coding
Let Your LLM Think in English
Reliable RAG and tool calling usually need one stable working language. Keep English inside the model loop, then localize for users at the edges.
When Your Users Code With AI, What Does DevRel Actually Teach?
May 3, 2026Tutorials are the thing AI writes best. So if Copilot already produces the boilerplate, what is left for developer relations to actually teach? I think the answer changes the job entirely.
AI Answers and the Trust Problem in Developer Communities
April 30, 2026Stack Overflow banned AI answers, then partnered with OpenAI, then watched its question volume keep falling. The unresolved tension underneath that mess is the real story for anyone running a developer community right now.
Let Your LLM Think in English
April 27, 2026Reliable RAG and tool calling usually need one stable working language. Keep English inside the model loop, then localize for users at the edges.
Claude Design and the One-Person Creative Agency
April 18, 2026Anthropic just shipped design, prototyping, and presentation tools inside Claude. Combined with Code and Cowork, one person now has a full creative agency on their laptop.
One API Key, Many Tenants: Isolating DeepL Translations in a Multi-Tenant SaaS
April 18, 2026How to use a single DeepL API key across many tenants without glossaries, style rules, or cached translations leaking between customers. Here's the approach I use for Rasepi.
Tokens Burned Is the New Lines of Code
April 13, 2026Measuring AI adoption by token spend is the same mistake we made with lines of code in the 90s. Same flaw, new dashboard, much higher stakes.
The AI Divide Is Splitting Your Team in Half
April 10, 2026Half your team is building the future with AI. The other half thinks it's a fad. The gap between them is becoming the biggest competitive risk most companies don't see.
Build vs Buy Reimagined: What It Actually Means in 2026
April 7, 2026The cost of building just collapsed. So what does that mean for every SaaS company betting their business on 'you don't have to build it yourself'?
Three Weeks, One App: What AI Can Build For You and What It Absolutely Cannot
April 5, 2026I built a full SaaS product, marketing site, developer docs, and blog in three weeks with Claude. Here's the honest breakdown of where AI shines and where you're completely on your own.
Stop Firing People Because AI Exists
April 4, 2026One person with AI can do the work of ten. But did anyone stop to ask what happens to that one person? Or what happens if you keep the ten?
Readers and Writers Are in Different Mental Modes. Why Does Every Tool Give Them the Same UI?
April 3, 2026Documentation platforms force readers, writers, and AI into one interface. But consuming knowledge and creating it are cognitively different tasks. this platform separates them.
The State of Docs in 2026: Five Trends That Will Define the Next Era
April 3, 2026AI readership is up 500%. Notion shipped 21,000 agents. Confluence got Rovo. GitBook published the State of Docs. Five trends from across the industry that tell us where documentation is heading.
Builders, Not Developers: How Claude Changed Who Your Docs Are For
April 2, 2026The person integrating your API no longer reads your docs. They sit in Claude and describe what they want. Developer relations, API documentation, and the whole getting-started funnel need to be rethought for this new reality.
How This Translation Approach Actually Works, And Why It Sounds Like Your Team
March 31, 2026this platform doesn't just translate your documentation into other languages. It learns your terminology, matches your tone, and lets every language version live its own life. Here's how.
Inside the Translation Engine: Glossaries, Style Rules, and Smart Retranslation
March 31, 2026A deep technical walkthrough of how this platform's translation pipeline actually works: glossary resolution, DeepL style rules and custom instructions, content hashing, and the integration that ties it all together.
Stop Maintaining Five Copies of the Same Document
March 31, 2026Most companies have onboarding_germany, onboarding_japan, onboarding_brazil. In this platform, it's just 'Onboarding'. One document. Shared steps translated, local steps per language. No more copies drifting apart.
The Business Case for Block-Level Localisation
March 24, 2026Global teams don't just need translations. They need knowledge that works in every market, with each language carrying its own structure. Block-level localisation makes that practical.
Content Freshness, Part 2: Beyond Expiry Dates
March 18, 2026Expiry dates solve accountability. But a document can go stale in a hundred ways between reviews. Part 2 explains how continuous freshness monitoring fills the gap.
Content Freshness, Part 1: The Metric Your Team Isn't Tracking
March 16, 2026Your documentation might be technically correct today. But in six months, who checks? Freshness is about to become the most important signal in your knowledge base.
Teach Your AI to Ignore Stale Documentation
March 12, 2026Your AI assistant treats a document reviewed last week the same as one nobody has touched in two years. Content governance fixes that.
Talking to Documents Feels Better Than Reading Them
March 10, 2026Reading is powerful, but effortful. Conversation is older, faster, and more natural. Speaking to information often feels mentally lighter than scanning pages of text.
Inside the Architecture: Plugins, Action Guards, and Pipelines
March 6, 2026A deep technical walkthrough of how this platform's plugin system, action guard pipeline, and block-level translation engine actually work, with real code from the codebase.
Dev Tunnels vs NGrok
February 29, 2024Can Visual Studio dev-tunnels replace Ngrok yet?
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3 is here!
January 21, 2023Read about some of the new features shipped in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 3
Adaptive Cards, what else can you use them for?
August 30, 2022Many people think Adaptive Cards is something Microsoft invented to be used in MS Teams or Power Platform and the alike and while that is totally true it's only half the picture. Adaptive Cards and the technology behind, including the templating engine, can be used for so much more!
CRUD API's in an instant
March 31, 2022Generating fully working CRUD API's in seconds!
Generic controllers in .NET Core
March 31, 2022Often controllers are really really similar to each other, here's a generic approach to this
OpenSource is not free software!
March 31, 2022Many people think open source is free software and while that is sort of true, its totally not true depending on the point of view
TCDev API Generator - Getting Started
March 27, 2022Here's a small getting started guide for my API Generator Project
Be the one who wrote the posts and gave the talks!
March 26, 2022A developer career is more than just writing code, #SharingIsCaring and giving back supports other developers!
The new TCDev
March 25, 2022A full guide how this page is made, the stack i'm using and more
#SharingIsCaring!
March 18, 2022I just uploaded a bunch of stuff to Github because #SharingFeelsGood!
Instant CRUD APIs with .NET
March 10, 2022How to create fully working ODATA CRUD API's from just classes.
MadeWithCards Updates February 22
February 15, 2022MadeWithCards now has a lot more content and quite a few more updates!
.NET App Settings explained
November 25, 2021Quite often i see questions about how app settings work localy, in azure and in docker, here's a small explaination
The new MadeWithCards.io
September 15, 2021A brand new updated MadeWithCards.io was released
AC Templating is a game changer!
July 1, 2021Simply explained templating is data-binding onto JSON strings.
AdaptiveCards just got a ton better
January 5, 2021With AdaptiveCards 1.3 (also 2.1.0 ) cards got a relatively simple but really powerfull change.
How to use the Teamwork Projects SDK
February 12, 2020Recently, a new version of the Teamwork .Net SDK was released and Iād like to give you a few examples on how this can be used to make development for Teamwork Projects a lot easier when working with .Net.
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