Achievement updates

Adding to my log of technical accomplishments since my last post I have:

• Deployed an Azure Service Bus consumer written in PHP using the curl interface.
• This also reused the Bicep CI/CD for creating the queue ... very elegant
• Deployed opensearch + dashboards + fluent-bit into a docker compose stack
  this provides observability over nginx logs
• I also deployed my first change in C# ASP .Net
  ... I'm not a big fan of the Entity Framework. Perhaps it's the way that it is being used in the project that I'm working on. It abstracts too far away from SQL , which is the most successful DSL on the planet. SQL is understood by many people on the project from different roles : Programmers, Business Analysts and Project Managers, EF replaces an easily readable query with a technical chunk of code only understood by programmers often with the SQL generated only at runtime making SQL Optimization very difficult.

More AWS adventures

Today I implemented CloudTrail and backups using Cloudformation.
naming has been a journey that will probably need to be revisoted.

Agentic coding needs structure more than ever.

I spent the week-end digging deeper into agentic coding, this time using mostly Gemini as the path of least resistance.
I still want to try Qwen3-Coder.

It became blatently clear to me that the agentic coding workflow needs structure more than ever.
This might have seemed obvious from the outset, but once you're knee deep in running changes with the agent in a pre-existing codebase,
you'll quickly run into trouble if your code doesn't have proper formatting, linting or unit test cases.

first PS module published

Yay! I pust published my first powershell module here
https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/FavouriteDirectory
The next version will be published from a github action

ai cli's

I've recently been very impressed with Claude Code,
I used to to make a bug-fix in pl/sql.

Now I see that Gemini CLI has been released and I have to dive straight in,
firstly I can run it in a powershell window directly in windows.
Claude made me figure out how to run VSCode in a dev container just so that I could have a bash shell.
I'm grateful for that experience but a bit short on RAM for extra containers ... and it makes the fan hum.


Update
Gemini Cli, seems to hit a rate limit unexpectedly quickly based on what I had been led to believe.
Lot's of :
Rate limiting detected. Automatically switching from gemini-2.5-pro to gemini-2.5-flash for faster responses for the remainder of this session.

Show Physical memory in bytes on Powershell 7

The following command will output one line per bank installed showing the number of bytes available

Write-Output $(Get-CimInstance -ComputerName localhost -Classname Win32_PhysicalMemory).capacity

New mini project idea - favdir

favdir is a powershell module which implementa new command.

fd foo
This changes your directory to foo, but the foo argument is a keyword for a longer directory name
e.g. C:\Users\user.name\Documents\projects\foo

fd foo C:\longdir\foo
registers or replaces a registered favdir

fd -d foo
Removes a registered favdir

The favdir registry is stored in ~.favdir

Inspired by bashmarks https://github.com/huyng/bashmarks