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From Inbox to Product: Five Features Built on Top of an Email API Some of the most useful features in modern business software are quietly powered by your own mailbox: the CRM that already knows what a client wrote yesterday, the recruiting tool that stops follow-ups when a candidate replies, the assistant that sorts a crowded inbox before you open it. Here are five of those features, how they work, and what a software team actually needs under the hood to build each one.

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Email is still where a large share of business actually happens, and software products have learned to tap into it rather than compete with it. The building block behind that …

From Inbox to Product: Five Features Built on Top of an Email API Some of the most useful features in modern business software are quietly powered by your own mailbox: the CRM that already knows what a client wrote yesterday, the recruiting tool that stops follow-ups when a candidate replies, the assistant that sorts a crowded inbox before you open it. Here are five of those features, how they work, and what a software team actually needs under the hood to build each one. Read More
Applications / Coding / Process management / Software / Tools & Utilities

MEM 1.2.2: What's New, and the New Extensions for AI Agents Reserved commands, an extension catalogue and five ready-to-use extensions to measure and optimize AI agent sessions, manage tools and repositories, and verify the work done

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In a previous article we introduced MEM (Markdown Embedded Memory), the open source project that gives AI agents a persistent project memory, written in Markdown and kept inside the repository. …

MEM 1.2.2: What's New, and the New Extensions for AI Agents Reserved commands, an extension catalogue and five ready-to-use extensions to measure and optimize AI agent sessions, manage tools and repositories, and verify the work done Read More
Business innovation / Coding / DevOps / Process management / Software / Tools & Utilities

MEM: Persistent, Self-Updating Memory for AI Agents A tool that gives AI projects a readable, indexed and persistent operational memory layer, designed to preserve context and document the work done

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AI agents are becoming increasingly useful in software projects, but they still have a very concrete weakness: they lose operational context far too easily. A session can produce good code, …

MEM: Persistent, Self-Updating Memory for AI Agents A tool that gives AI projects a readable, indexed and persistent operational memory layer, designed to preserve context and document the work done Read More
Applications / C# / Coding / Software / Tools & Utilities

PDF Tools for VS Code: View, Fill, Save and Print PDFs in Visual Studio Code A free, open-source extension that turns VS Code into a complete PDF viewer and form filler, with real save into the file

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I work with PDF files in Visual Studio Code quite often, and I wanted an extension that would let me open them without switching to another application every time: specs, …

PDF Tools for VS Code: View, Fill, Save and Print PDFs in Visual Studio Code A free, open-source extension that turns VS Code into a complete PDF viewer and form filler, with real save into the file Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding / Software / Tools & Utilities

Source Control Switcher 1.2.0: Visual Studio 2022 and 2026 support, TFVC and more The extension that picks the right source control provider for every solution is back, rebuilt for Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio 2026

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A while ago I introduced Source Control Switcher, a small Visual Studio extension that solves a recurring annoyance: Visual Studio can only have one source control provider active at a …

Source Control Switcher 1.2.0: Visual Studio 2022 and 2026 support, TFVC and more The extension that picks the right source control provider for every solution is back, rebuilt for Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio 2026 Read More
Applications / Operating Systems / Software / Tools & Utilities / Windows

How to Convert OST to PST with Stellar Converter for OST A practical look at Stellar’s OST to PST converter, a convenient tool to extract data from orphaned, inaccessible, or unsynchronized OST files

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Converting an Outlook OST file to PST is one of those tasks that usually becomes urgent when something has already gone wrong: an Exchange mailbox has been deleted, an Outlook …

How to Convert OST to PST with Stellar Converter for OST A practical look at Stellar’s OST to PST converter, a convenient tool to extract data from orphaned, inaccessible, or unsynchronized OST files Read More
Business innovation / Coding / DevOps / Process management / Software / Tools & Utilities

MEM: Persistent Operating Memory for AI Agents Empower AI-assisted projects with a readable, persistent and extensible operating memory layer that helps preserve context, document work and support long-running technical workflows

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AI agents are becoming increasingly useful in software projects, but they still have a very practical weakness: they lose operational context too easily. A session can produce good code, useful …

MEM: Persistent Operating Memory for AI Agents Empower AI-assisted projects with a readable, persistent and extensible operating memory layer that helps preserve context, document work and support long-running technical workflows Read More
Software / Videogames

Extraction shooters and late capitalism: a genre that mirrors our age From Escape from Tarkov to ARC Raiders and Marathon, these games turn accumulation, risk, precarity and inequality into playable mechanics: an interactive echo of the economic and psychological pressures that shape contemporary life

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Anyone who has spent enough time on Escape from Tarkov knows that particular feeling that grips the pit of your stomach at certain moments in a match: a full backpack, …

Extraction shooters and late capitalism: a genre that mirrors our age From Escape from Tarkov to ARC Raiders and Marathon, these games turn accumulation, risk, precarity and inequality into playable mechanics: an interactive echo of the economic and psychological pressures that shape contemporary life Read More
AI & Machine Learning / Applications / ASP.NET / C# / Cloud / Coding / Data Security / Servers & Services / Software / Tools & Utilities / Web

Harpyx: Open-Source Platform for RAG-Based Document Intelligence A practical solution to search, analyze, and query large document collections without losing control over data, infrastructure, and LLM providers

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Over the last few months, I've worked with several companies that were looking to use AI for something more substantial than text generation: making sense of their documents. Specifications, technical …

Harpyx: Open-Source Platform for RAG-Based Document Intelligence A practical solution to search, analyze, and query large document collections without losing control over data, infrastructure, and LLM providers Read More
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UncannyPrompt: Open-Source AI Prompt Management for Teams An open-source, self-hosted platform (with a free SaaS alternative) to help teams manage their AI workflows with more control

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Over the last two years, prompts have become part of the daily routine of many teams working with generative AI. Not as a formal discipline, and not only in the …

UncannyPrompt: Open-Source AI Prompt Management for Teams An open-source, self-hosted platform (with a free SaaS alternative) to help teams manage their AI workflows with more control Read More