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Build a Minimal WebMCP Agent with Playwright and Gemini
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🤖 AI Agents & Automation ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago
Build a Minimal WebMCP Agent with Playwright and Gemini
WebMCP lets a web page expose tools that AI agents can discover and execute inside the browser. That...
How to Use Gemma 4 E2B the Smart Way: Family Trip Advisor
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 📰 AI News & Updates 4mo ago
How to Use Gemma 4 E2B the Smart Way: Family Trip Advisor
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 In a previous article, I...
Old PC vs New AI: Can a 2015 Desktop Actually Run Gemma 4? (2B vs 4B Benchmark)
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 💻 AI-Assisted Coding ⚡ AI Lesson 4mo ago
Old PC vs New AI: Can a 2015 Desktop Actually Run Gemma 4? (2B vs 4B Benchmark)
Running modern AI models locally on older hardware sounds almost impossible. But with smaller models...
Clean Unit Testing in .NET: Practical xUnit and Moq Tips
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 5mo ago
Clean Unit Testing in .NET: Practical xUnit and Moq Tips
When writing unit tests in .NET, the basics are easy to learn. Frameworks like xUnit and Moq make it...
What’s the Worst Advice AI Has Given You? Here’s Mine.
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 📰 AI News & Updates 6mo ago
What’s the Worst Advice AI Has Given You? Here’s Mine.
I recently saw a meme about terrible legacy code on platform X and it gave me an idea for a...
.NET: CopyToAsync vs WriteAsync: The Benchmark You Didn’t Know You Needed
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 📰 AI News & Updates ⚡ AI Lesson 6mo ago
.NET: CopyToAsync vs WriteAsync: The Benchmark You Didn’t Know You Needed
I had a task where one small part involved writing a byte array to a MemoryStream. Since this was a...
Clean Architecture in .NET: Real-World Pros, Cons and Trade-offs
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 7mo ago
Clean Architecture in .NET: Real-World Pros, Cons and Trade-offs
I have experience with Clean Architecture across multiple projects, both when creating new...
Angular: HTTP Caching with RxJS shareReplay
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🌐 Frontend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 7mo ago
Angular: HTTP Caching with RxJS shareReplay
At some point in every Angular application repeated HTTP calls start to hurt, slower page loads,...
.NET: Exceptions vs Result Pattern - Performance Benchmark
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 7mo ago
.NET: Exceptions vs Result Pattern - Performance Benchmark
In the realm of error handling and control flow, developers often choose between two primary...
Angular: Stop Overusing ChangeDetectorRef
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 8mo ago
Angular: Stop Overusing ChangeDetectorRef
In Angular development, we often run into change detection issues, for example when some fields are...
.NET: Vertical Slice Architecture vs Clean Architecture — A Practical Comparison Using Real APIs
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 8mo ago
.NET: Vertical Slice Architecture vs Clean Architecture — A Practical Comparison Using Real APIs
There are plenty of articles comparing Clean Architecture and Vertical Slice Architecture, but most...
Angular: Custom Multi-File Translation Loader for ngx-translate
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🖌️ UI/UX Design ⚡ AI Lesson 8mo ago
Angular: Custom Multi-File Translation Loader for ngx-translate
In the Angular ecosystem, many projects use @ngx-translate for runtime translations, especially when...
C# Minimal API: A Practical Way to Keep Endpoints Clean
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 9mo ago
C# Minimal API: A Practical Way to Keep Endpoints Clean
Minimal APIs make it tempting to write everything inline, but this quickly becomes unmaintainable....
C# Minimal API: Output Caching
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 9mo ago
C# Minimal API: Output Caching
Minimal API: Output Caching Stores the generated response on the server and serves it...
C# Minimal API: Response Caching
Dev.to · Daniel Balcarek 🏗️ Systems Design & Architecture ⚡ AI Lesson 9mo ago
C# Minimal API: Response Caching
Response Caching Response caching reduces the number of requests a client or proxy makes...