10
author: "Michael John Peña",
11
publishDate: "2024-09-21",
13
tags: ["Claude", "Tools", "LLM", "Copilot", "VSCode"],
14
summary: "Leveraging Azure OpenAI with Claude Dev and Continue in VSCode
As a developer constantly evaluating …
" 11
author: "Michael John Peña",
12
publishDate: "2024-01-05",
14
tags: ["obsidian", "productivity", "flow", "work"],
15
summary: "In the evolving landscape of the digital age, knowledge workers find themselves in need of an …
" 12
author: "Michael John Peña",
13
publishDate: "2023-10-26",
16
summary: "I’ve always been passionate about creating and delivering content. It’s a thrilling …
" 13
author: "Michael John Peña",
14
publishDate: "2023-08-21",
17
summary: "Throughout my life, “Father Figure” has been an evolving term. At nine, the loss of my …
" 14
author: "Michael John Peña",
15
publishDate: "2023-02-15",
17
tags: ["Exchange", "Cryptocurrency", "Solidity", "Finance", "Blockchain"],
18
summary: "Kubernetes is a powerful open-source platform for container orchestration, while cloud computing …
" 15
author: "Michael John Peña",
16
publishDate: "2023-02-13",
18
tags: ["Exchange", "Cryptocurrency", "Solidity", "Finance", "Blockchain"],
19
summary: "Introduction to AMM
Have you ever wondered how decentralized trading works? The backbone of …
" 16
author: "Michael John Peña",
17
publishDate: "2023-02-12",
19
tags: ["TDD", "Testing", "NextJS", "Software"],
20
summary: "Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development methodology that emphasizes writing tests …
" 17
author: "Michael John Peña",
18
publishDate: "2023-02-11",
20
tags: ["GraphQL", "API", "Backend", "TypeScript", "Software"],
21
summary: "GraphQL is a modern query language for APIs that provides more control and efficiency compared to …
" 18
author: "Michael John Peña",
19
publishDate: "2023-02-10",
21
tags: ["Exchange", "Cryptocurrency", "Solidity", "Finance", "Software"],
22
summary: "Blockchain technology is a revolutionary solution for creating secure, decentralized systems that …
" 19
author: "Michael John Peña",
20
publishDate: "2023-02-09",
22
tags: ["Exchange", "Cryptocurrency", "Solidity", "Finance", "Blockchain"],
23
summary: "Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) are a new and innovative concept in the world of blockchain, offering …
" 20
author: "Michael John Peña",
21
publishDate: "2023-02-08",
23
tags: ["AI", "Automation", "Software"],
24
summary: "The IT market is currently facing a decline, with many companies undergoing layoffs and …
" 21
author: "Michael John Peña",
22
publishDate: "2023-02-07",
24
tags: ["TDD", "Testing", "Python", "Software"],
25
summary: "Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a software development approach where developers write tests before …
" 22
author: "Michael John Peña",
23
publishDate: "2023-02-06",
25
tags: ["Stablecoin", "Cryptocurrency", "Solidity", "Finance"],
26
summary: "Are you new to the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology? Have you been wondering how …
" 23
author: "Michael John Peña",
24
publishDate: "2023-01-04",
26
tags: ["tuples", "csharp", "rust", "typescript"],
27
summary: "Introduction about the series
I’ve been in the technology for more than a decade now, and one …
" 24
author: "Michael John Peña",
25
publishDate: "2023-01-03",
27
tags: ["redis", "cache", "functions", "patterns", "azure"],
28
summary: "Caching is a technique used to store frequently accessed data in a temporary storage location in …
" 25
author: "Michael John Peña",
26
publishDate: "2023-01-02",
28
tags: ["blob", "functions", "file", "azure"],
29
summary: "Debugging Azure Functions locally can be a helpful way to test and troubleshoot your code before …
" 26
author: "Michael John Peña",
27
publishDate: "2022-12-23",
29
tags: ["api", "file", "azure"],
30
summary: "I’m very surprised that there isn’t a straight forward library out there that is free to …
" 27
author: "Michael John Peña",
28
publishDate: "2022-12-23",
30
tags: ["typescript", "testing"],
31
summary: "Test-driven development (TDD) is a software development approach in which tests are written for a …
" 28
author: "Michael John Peña",
29
publishDate: "2022-12-19",
31
tags: ["rust", "testing"],
32
summary: "Test Driven Development, or TDD, is a software development process that involves writing tests for …
" 29
author: "Michael John Peña",
30
publishDate: "2022-10-22",
32
tags: ["personal", "family", "finance"],
33
summary: "My 20s is officially over. The last 10 years have been a blast.
TLDR:
- Family Man. Got married and …
" 30
author: "Michael John Peña",
31
publishDate: "2022-09-20",
33
tags: ["csharp", "dotnet", "azure", "functions", "CQS", "mediatr"],
34
summary: "Introduction
Azure Functions
made it very easy to create services on the cloud. It’s very simple to …
" 31
author: "Michael John Peña",
32
publishDate: "2022-09-18",
34
tags: ["macos", "security", "certificate"],
35
summary: "Introduction
One of the biggest pain points of every developer in the Apple ecosystem is Application …
" 32
author: "Michael John Peña",
33
publishDate: "2022-09-15",
35
tags: ["csharp", "dotnet", "macos"],
36
summary: "Introduction
In the previous blog post
, I covered how you can create Universal Apps for MacOS. But …
" 33
author: "Michael John Peña",
34
publishDate: "2022-09-14",
36
tags: ["finance", "recession", "saving", "investment"],
37
summary: "Introduction
I woke up today seeing my portfolio bloody red again. Stocks and ETFs are down. Cryptos …
" 34
author: "Michael John Peña",
35
publishDate: "2022-09-14",
37
tags: ["rust", "eventhubs", "azure", "amqp"],
38
summary: "Rust has been gaining a lot of traction lately. Being in the Blockchain space, a lot of chains such …
" 35
author: "Michael John Peña",
36
publishDate: "2022-09-13",
38
tags: ["csharp", "dotnet", "azure", "macos"],
39
summary: "It’s been a while since the most mind-breaking thing happened to .NET developers who are also …
" 36
author: "Michael John Peña",
37
publishDate: "2022-09-12",
39
tags: ["csharp", "dotnet", "pipe", "messaging"],
40
summary: "There are multiple ways applications can communicate to each other. You can use HTTP, gRPC, gRPC, …
" 37
author: "Michael John Peña",
38
publishDate: "2022-09-09",
40
tags: ["Kafka", "Linux", "EDA", "Docker", "WSL"],
41
summary: "Kafka
is a robust event streaming platform that is used by a lot of companies these days. As …
" 38
author: "Michael John Peña",
39
publishDate: "2022-08-26",
41
tags: ["csharp", "SQLite", "dotnet", "Memory"],
42
summary: "If you’re running a .NET application that doesn’t require a database, one of the options …
" 39
author: "Michael John Peña",
40
publishDate: "2022-08-22",
42
tags: ["SQL Azure", "Azure Data Studio"],
43
summary: "Doing it via the Portal
I’m trying to backup our SQL Azure database, and to my surprise, it …
" 40
author: "Michael John Peña",
41
publishDate: "2022-08-08",
43
tags: ["Productivity", "Technology", "Tools", "Personal"],
44
summary: "Here is a list of all the relevant technology set up that I use personally at work, home, and …
" 41
author: "Michael John Peña",
42
publishDate: "2021-11-08",
44
tags: ["Running", "Autism", "Planning", "Challenge"],
45
summary: "A couple of weeks ago, I started a campaign to raise money into my Run For Autism 2021
. Long story …
" 42
author: "Michael John Peña",
43
publishDate: "2021-09-13",
45
tags: ["Productive this Pandemic", "Productivity", "Self-Help", "Planning"],
46
summary: "For the longest of time, I would consider myself as the lone wolf at work. Most days, I’d …
" 43
author: "Michael John Peña",
44
publishDate: "2021-09-04",
46
tags: ["Productive this Pandemic", "Productivity", "Self-Help", "Planning"],
47
summary: "People have asked me lately, how do I do it? Having a full-time consulting company, spending quality …
" 44
author: "Michael John Peña",
45
publishDate: "2021-08-28",
47
tags: ["Azure", "Hybrid Cloud", "Edge", "Technology", "IoT", "Infrastructure"],
48
summary: "Hybrid cloud is the trend right now I see in a lot of companies and enterprises. The term hybrid has …
" 45
author: "Michael John Peña",
46
publishDate: "2021-08-15",
48
tags: ["Blockchain", "Crypto", "Ethereum", "Technology", "WSL", "Windows", "Python"],
49
summary: "In the past, I’ve been using my Macbook Pro to do all things blockchain and smart contracts …
" 46
author: "Michael John Peña",
47
publishDate: "2021-08-10",
49
tags: ["Blockchain", "Crypto", "Ethereum", "Technology", "NFT", "Stablecoins"],
50
summary: "So you keep hearing or reading about “tokens”, these “cryptos”, the …
" 47
author: "Michael John Peña",
48
publishDate: "2021-07-23",
50
tags: ["Mac", ".NET", "Mobile", "Technology"],
51
summary: "The .NET framework (and the wider ecosystem) has embraced a lot of openness these past few years. …
" 48
author: "Michael John Peña",
49
publishDate: "2021-07-21",
51
tags: ["Personal", "Philisopy", "Motivation"],
52
summary: "I recently gave a graduation speech to my high school alma matter. Compared to my usual technical …
" 49
author: "Michael John Peña",
50
publishDate: "2021-07-15",
52
tags: ["Technology", "Blockchain", "Web"],
53
summary: "Introduction
Blockchain is not dead. Actually, quite the contrary is happening in the past year. …
" 50
author: "Michael John Peña",
51
publishDate: "2021-07-13",
53
tags: ["Technology", "Life-style", "Mobile", "Web", "Windows", "MacOS"],
54
summary: "Introduction
My Battle Station @ 2021
In a parallel world, I’ll be just using 1 device and 1 …
" 51
author: "Michael John Peña",
52
publishDate: "2021-06-24",
55
summary: "Introduction
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately in setting up on-premises Linux Servers. …
" 52
author: "Michael John Peña",
53
publishDate: "2021-03-14",
55
tags: ["Build Server", "iOS Distribution", "Keychain", "MacOS", "Mobile Development"],
56
summary: "Signing an iOS app for release is one of the trivial things most mobile developers face. A lot of …
" 53
author: "Michael John Peña",
54
publishDate: "2021-02-26",
56
tags: ["Bitcoin", "Blockchain", "Cryptocurrency", "DeFi", "Ethereum", "Philosophy"],
57
summary: "I’ve been in the crazy Blockchain space for quite a while now. I’ve had a lot of …
" 54
author: "Michael John Peña",
55
publishDate: "2021-02-22",
57
tags: ["media", "news", "reading", "social media"],
58
summary: "Ever since I was a kid, I was never really the person who watches the mainstream television to watch …
" 55
author: "Michael John Peña",
56
publishDate: "2021-01-27",
58
tags: ["business", "company", "startup", "work"],
59
summary: "In someone’s employment life, she/he dreams of having her/his own company to beat the thoughts …
" 56
author: "Michael John Peña",
57
publishDate: "2021-01-14",
59
tags: ["lazy", "mental", "procrastination", "productivity", "willpower"],
60
summary: "One of the colossal beasts that all knowledge workers fight time and time again is procrastination. …
" 57
author: "Michael John Peña",
58
publishDate: "2021-01-08",
60
tags: ["books", "reading"],
61
summary: "Before 2018, I was never a book reader. Reading a book seems like a chore to me. I can barely finish …
" 58
author: "Michael John Peña",
59
publishDate: "2021-01-07",
61
tags: ["artificial intelligence", "azure", "Data Science", "Databricks", "machine learning", "Microsoft Cloud", "MLOps", "Power Platform", "Synapse"],
62
summary: "Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are trending topics right now. In 2021, there …
" 59
author: "Michael John Peña",
60
publishDate: "2021-01-06",
62
tags: ["10xengineer", "career", "developer", "self-help", "software engineer"],
63
summary: "Someone once asked me, what does it take to become a prominent developer? A 10X Engineer? You know …
" 60
author: "Michael John Peña",
61
publishDate: "2021-01-05",
63
tags: ["Distraction", "Facebook Vidoes", "Netflix", "Next Button", "productivity", "YouTube"],
64
summary: "It’s very tempting to click on “that next button” wether that is from YouTube, …
" 61
author: "Michael John Peña",
62
publishDate: "2021-01-04",
64
tags: ["digital", "goals", "productivity"],
65
summary: "During the holidays, I was contemplating on what skills should I invest time on for 2021. As someone …
" 62
author: "Michael John Peña",
63
publishDate: "2020-09-28",
65
tags: ["azure", "cloud", "nas", "storage"],
66
summary: "Foreword
Synology reached out to me to give their new DiskStation DS920+ a review. If you’re …
" 63
author: "Michael John Peña",
64
publishDate: "2020-09-09",
66
tags: ["Community", "Technology"],
67
summary: "Wow! It’s been 5 years since my first Microsoft MVP award. If you don’t know what the Microsoft MVP …
" 64
author: "Michael John Peña",
65
publishDate: "2020-08-26",
68
summary: "I have been meaning to write a blog post for an awfully long time, but it has blocked me for so many …
" 65
author: "Michael John Peña",
66
publishDate: "0001-01-01",
69
summary: "Key Differences Between Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services
Introduction
Azure …
" 66
author: "Michael John Peña",
67
publishDate: "0001-01-01",
70
summary: "Step-by-Step Guide for Implementing a Serverless AI Solution Using Azure Functions and Azure …
"