Tools

Maester is an amazing tool. Point it at an Entra ID tenant. A few minutes later you have one self-contained HTML report. It tells you which of about 280 security controls hold and which do not: CIS, CISA/SCuBA, EIDSCA, ORCA, plus any custom Pester test you write yourself. Run it once and it is excellent. Run it every night, across several tenants, and you learn something else. A report is not the same thing as a practice. After a few months you have a blob container with hundreds of files, three per run: ...

TL;DR Need to expose a local HTTPS endpoint to the internet or your private network? Tailscale does it in minutes. One command, no complex configuration, free for up to 3 users and 100 devices. It is a game-changer for my developer setup. tailscale serve --service=svc:my-service --https=443 http://localhost:3000 That’s it. Your local service is now accessible over HTTPS in your private Tailscale network with a valid certificate. The Problem As developers, we constantly hit the same wall: “I need to expose my local service”. Here are real scenarios I deal with regularly: ...

TL;DR I’m using AI tools to generate code for my projects. Here I want to show you GitHub Copilot, Bolt, Aider, and GitHub Copilot Workspace. I’m happy with the results from Aider with the Claude AI model, and Bolt is perfect for generating a nice starting point for my front-end projects. GitHub Copilot is ideal for small code snippets. Introduction Happy New Year! This post will be my summary and notes on how I use AI daily as a software developer, or maybe it will be better to name it proof of concept or demo developer ;) I will focus only on the tools that help me write/generate the code. ...