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June 28, 2026

GitKraken Is Now the Code Flow Company — and the Name Actually Means Something

As a GitKraken Ambassador I've watched the company evolve from "the nice Git GUI with the green-and-purple commit graph" into something with a much bigger thesis. This month they made it official: GitKraken is repositioning as the Code Flow company. Normally a corporate rebrand…

  • GitKraken
  • Code Flow
  • AI Agents
  • Developer Workflow
  • Git

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June 20, 2026

A Recommendation Is Not a Verdict

Let me be blunt: when I share a Delphi component on this blog, I am not handing down a judgment from the mountain. I am not declaring everything else obsolete. I am not saying I have never heard of your favorite alternative. I am a…

  • Delphi

June 18, 2026

Free Barcode & QR Code Generation for Delphi VCL

Barcodes and QR codes are everywhere. Product labels, warehouse management systems, invoices, event tickets, asset tracking, mobile deep links — if you're building business software, sooner or later someone will ask for them. My friends at…

  • Delphi
  • VCL
  • Barcodes
  • QR Codes
  • TMS Software

June 18, 2026

  • Source Control
  • Git
  • GitKraken
  • Version Control

June 15, 2026

The One Who Got Away: Anders Hejlsberg, Decades Later

A lot of long-time Delphi developers carry a small, fond nostalgia. We don't talk about it much, but it's there. It's the feeling you get when you read about Anders Hejlsberg shipping yet another world-changing thing — and you remember…

  • Delphi
  • Object Pascal
  • TypeScript
  • History
  • AI

June 13, 2026

Was It All Just a Fable — or a Fairy Tale?

For me, Fable was the next step in the evolution of AI. After Sonnet, after Opus, Fable arrived and quietly raised the bar again — delivering genuinely amazing results on real work. The timing was almost poetic: I had just given this very…

  • Fable
  • Anthropic
  • Claude
  • LLM

June 9, 2026

Can a 30B Model on Your Mac Cut Your AI Bill? Two Local LLMs vs. One Cloud Fact-Checker

The monthly bill for cloud AI is the new electricity bill — and it keeps climbing. So a tempting question keeps coming up: how much of the expensive work can I push onto a model running on my own hardware, for free — and is that work…

  • LLM
  • Ollama
  • LM Studio
  • Next.js

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