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Turning a Blog Post into a Deck with Claude Slides
Slides is out of beta. I had Claude Code turn one of my posts into a nine-slide deck, then checked every claim against the source. Here's what held up.
Productivity
36 articles
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Transitions, Not Tasks: Designing AI for the Gap Between Meetings
Most AI assistants help inside a task. The expensive part of knowledge work is the switch between commitments, and that needs a different agent design.
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March 2026: A Fixed Bedtime, Two Inbox Checks, One Tool to Ship
March plan: turn February's two drifting goals, sleep and email, into fixed rules, keep what held, and ship the side project I've already built.
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February 2026 Scorecard: Four Commitments, One Short Month
Grading my four February commitments: 29 posts in 28 days, two no-tech Sundays, one new engagement against two noes, and sleep stuck at 6.5 hours.
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Six Short Meetings, One Lost Day: The Real Cost of Context Switching
Why scattered 30-minute meetings can wipe out a day of deep work, what the research actually says about interruptions, and the schedule rules I now use.
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February 2026: Fewer Threads, Sundays Off, Seven Hours of Sleep
February plan after 31 days of daily writing: keep the habit, take Sundays off tech, narrow to two focus areas, and stop running on five to six hours of sleep.
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January 2026 Closed Out: What Held, and Three Experiments That Didn't
The final tally on January: 31 posts in 31 days, one working Saturday, three habit experiments that failed, and the short list I'm taking into February.
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Grading My January Commitments Before the Month Ends
A mid-course report card on four January commitments: weekend boundaries, being present, daily writing and AI focus, plus three small goals for February.
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The Weekend I Stopped Answering Slack
How I went from working every weekend to zero weekend work: the setup, the team pushback, what changed after eight weeks, and the exceptions I still allow.
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Holiday Tech Gift Guide 2025: Tools That Made Me More Productive
Looking for last-minute gifts for the developers in your life? Here are the tools and subscriptions that genuinely improved my productivity in 2025.
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GitHub Copilot vs Cursor vs Claude Code: Developer AI Tools Compared
AI coding assistants transformed developer productivity in 2025. After extensively using all three major tools, here's my detailed comparison to help you…
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GitHub Copilot Workspace: AI-Powered Development Environment Deep Dive
The workspace analyzes your codebase, identifies affected files, and proposes a complete implementation plan before writing any code.
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Next-Gen Copilot Features: What's Coming in 2025
The next generation of Copilot will transform how we build software. Start exploring the current capabilities to be ready for what's coming.
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AI-Assisted Development: How AI is Changing How We Build
AI-assisted development is here to stay. Learn to use these tools effectively while maintaining code quality and understanding.
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Developer Experience for Data and AI Teams
Great developer experience is an investment that pays dividends in productivity, quality, and retention. Measure it and improve it continuously.
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Copilot for Microsoft 365: Transforming Enterprise Productivity
Copilot for Microsoft 365 represents a fundamental shift in how knowledge workers interact with productivity tools. The key is thoughtful adoption that…
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Microsoft Copilot Updates: What's New for Enterprise Users
Microsoft Copilot is becoming the unified AI interface across the Microsoft ecosystem. Understanding these capabilities helps you leverage AI assistants…
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Desktop Automation with AI: Controlling Any Application
Desktop automation with AI brings human-like understanding to any application, enabling automation of complex workflows that were previously impossible to…
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Claude Artifacts: Interactive AI-Generated Content
The key difference from regular responses: artifacts persist, can be modified, and are rendered appropriately for their type.
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Capture, Plan, Execute, Refine: My Knowledge Work System
The four-stage personal workflow I use as a knowledge worker, and the tools behind each stage: reMarkable, Drafts, Readwise, Obsidian, To Do and Outlook.
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Copilot in Microsoft Fabric: AI-Powered Analytics
Copilot in Microsoft Fabric was announced at Ignite 2023 as the AI-powered natural language layer across the Fabric experience. The capabilities at launch…
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Fabric Notebooks: Features and Productivity Tips
Fabric Notebooks have some features I didn't notice until I'd been using them for a few weeks and wish someone had pointed out earlier. Inline data…
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Microsoft 365 Copilot: AI for Every Knowledge Worker
Microsoft 365 Copilot will fundamentally change how knowledge workers interact with productivity tools. Organizations should start preparing now.
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Copilot Chat: Transforming Developer Productivity
{f'Stack trace: {stacktrace}' if stacktrace else ''} response = await self.client.chatcompletion( model="gpt-4", messages=[ {"role": "system", "content"…
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AI Pair Programming with ChatGPT: A New Development Paradigm
Let's walk through building a REST API with ChatGPT as our pair. Me: "I need to build a REST API for a task management system. The requirements are: users…
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ChatGPT in Developer Workflows: Practical Applications
Twenty-four hours after ChatGPT launched, my developer group chats were a stream of screenshots—developers sharing prompts and responses the way we used to…
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Essential Azure Data Studio Extensions
Extensions transform Azure Data Studio into a comprehensive database development platform.
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My Tech List 2022
Here is a list of all the relevant technology set up that I use personally at work, home, and everything in between. I grouped them on different groups…
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Developer Experience: Making Developers Productive and Happy
Developer experience in 2021 became a competitive advantage. Organizations that invest in DevEx attract better talent and ship faster.
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Hot Reload in .NET 6: Edit Code Without Restarting
This is different from traditional "Edit and Continue" debugging - Hot Reload works with or without the debugger attached.
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Productive this Pandemic - Accountability Partner
For the longest of time, I would consider myself as the lone wolf at work. Most days, I'd rather stay alone and be in my world to get things done. I found…
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Productive this Pandemic - Planning your week ahead
People have asked me lately, how do I do it? Having a full-time consulting company, spending quality time with family, doing groceries, cooking, house…
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Five Ways I Get Unstuck When Procrastination Wins
Five habits I use when I know what I should be working on but can't start: cut distractions, shrink the task, commit to a peer, schedule it and be kind.
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From Non-Reader to ~100 Books: How I Built a Reading Habit
I barely finished a chapter before 2018. Since then I've read close to 100 books. Here's what changed, how I read, and how I choose what to read next.
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Digital Intentionality: Don't Click That Next Button
Autoplay on YouTube, Netflix and Facebook decides what you watch next. Five tricks I use to stop letting the next button make that choice for me.
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My Only Goal for 2021: Digital Intentionality, Not Minimalism
Instead of chasing another tech trend in 2021, I'm working on one habit: using every device and app with a clear purpose, then putting it down when I'm done.