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daramon How I Built a 'Journalist' AI Agent in VS Code to Replace Me

Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.

daramon Beware Project-Wrecking GitHub Copilot Premium SKU Quotas

n the middle of an AI project, I unknowingly blew through my Copilot Pro quota and got auto‑downgraded. Output tanked, panic ensued, and my chat buddy and I had words. Moral: always read the fine print.

daramon Why Copilot's Auto Mode for AI Models Ignores Your Actual Task

Copilot's 'Auto' model picker in VS Code and Visual Studio currently routes to whatever model is most available and policy-compliant--not the one best matched to your prompt--while Microsoft/GitHub said in late 2025 that task-aware routing is planned but not yet shipped.

daramon What a Diff a VS Code Fork Makes: Antigravity, Cursor and Windsurf Compared

Actually, they are now separate competitors: Google hired the original founders of Windsurf and licensed the tech to build Antigravity, while Cognition acquired the Windsurf brand and codebase. While they share a common origin, Antigravity is Google's Gemini-native evolution, whereas Windsurf continues as a standalone product under Cognition's leadership.

daramon What a Diff a VS Code Fork Makes: Antigravity, Cursor and Windsurf Compared

VS Code forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity may share a common foundation, but hands-on testing shows they reflect sharply different philosophies around AI autonomy, workflow structure, and developer control.

daramon Asp.net Core Dev Team Launches 'Blazor United' Push for .NET 8

Shortly after Blazor creator Steve Sanderson wowed web-devs with a new prototype project called Blazor United and solicited feedback on its viability, Microsoft flipped the switch and put it on the roadmap for .NET 8.

daramon Did .NET MAUI Ship Too Soon? Devs Sound Off on 'Massive Mistake'

Microsoft recently advanced .NET MAUI to General Availability status, but many developers have complained about half-baked functionality that was shipped too soon

daramon Why No Full SQL Server Reporting/Integration Services in Visual Studio 2022?

The Microsoft dev team finally migrated the SSRS tool to VS 2022 some 8 months after the IDE debuted, but apparently forgot about the SSIS component, so last week the November 2021 feature request was set back to "On Roadmap."

daramon Mercury Is Latest 3rd-Party Visual Basic Effort: 'Multiplatform VB++'

  Notwithstanding Microsoft's death knell for Visual Basic, a new project scheduled to debut this fall aims to keep at least some semblance of the iconic programming language going and evolving.

daramon Android KTX: Kotlin Development for Android

Director of project management, Android, said of Kotlin last July: "we're already using it ourselves to write code in Android Studio which gives us more ideas for making our support even better." https://adtmag.com/articles/2017/07/20/android-ama.aspx

daramon Ask HN: How do sites like Reddit, HackerNews, etc get initial user content?

Wow, every news outlet should become a "publicly funded non-profit membership media organization."

daramon Ask HN: Which editor do you use to code React Native apps?

VS Code

daramon Documents reveal how Peter Thiel was granted New Zealand citizenship

Anybody want to sue The Guardian? I know where you can get financial backing.

daramon Google Dataflow “stomps” on Apache Spark in performance tests

Surprisingly "similar" to an article published the day before:

https://adtmag.com/articles/2016/05/02/dataflow-spark-benchm...

daramon Ask HN: What are some good React tutorials?

Here's my comparison of React.js Fundamentals by Tyler McGinnis, and Learn React.js: The Basics, on Lynda.com.

https://adtmag.com/blogs/dev-watch/2016/04/react-tutorials.a...