Building a tiny IRC client in C#
IRC is old, plain, and surprisingly useful as a teaching tool. You open a TCP connection. You send text commands. The server sends text lines back. The connection stays open. If the server sends PING,

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IRC is old, plain, and surprisingly useful as a teaching tool. You open a TCP connection. You send text commands. The server sends text lines back. The connection stays open. If the server sends PING,

Most people think about DDoS as something hostile. Someone floods your public API, your infrastructure starts to bend, and the conversation moves towards rate limiting, WAF rules, autoscaling, caching

GitHub Copilot started as something most developers experienced inside the editor. You wrote a method. Copilot suggested the next few lines. Sometimes it was useful. Sometimes it was noisy. Either way

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, and the headline is easy to understand. It is the stronger Opus model. Better coding. Better agentic work. Better long-context behaviour. Better judgement. More

A lot of Developers talk about Domain Driven Design and Vertical Slice Architecture as if they are competing choices. They're really not. DDD helps you model the business. Vertical Slice Architecture

How to unlock real performance gains without turning your data model into a mess Most engineers start in the same place. You normalise the schema, remove duplication, keep each fact in one place, and
