http://codecube.net/ Software Engineer at Xamarin. Founded ONETUG. Author of 'C# 5 First Look' http://amzn.com/1849686769. en-us https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-race/ A quick thought as I scan the AI landscape: the early gold-rush chaos has started to settle into predictable lanes. Most products and services now fall into clear categories, and a couple of names ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-26 2025-06-26 https://codecube.net/2025/6/starving-artists/ It's an unfortunate truth that the more connected to someone's passion a job seems to be (artist, filmmaking, game development, musician, etc), the less financially rewarding and stable the career ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-24 2025-06-24 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-deviant-behavior/ The other day my smart speaker piped up ... thinking I had said the trigger word when I'd done nothing of the sort. Reflexively I snapped, "shut up, Alexa.". In that moment I was chattin... Joel Martinez 2025-06-16 2025-06-16 https://codecube.net/2025/6/domestic-manufacturing/ This is probably one of the most important videos Smarter Every Day has posted. He doesn't shy away from talking about a lot of the complexities of a global economy ... and also about the catalyst ... Joel Martinez 2025-06-09 2025-06-09 https://codecube.net/2025/6/ai-hype/ Not everything in AI right now is as new as it sounds. Every week there’s a fresh term making the rounds ... “agentic workflows,” “context engines,” “MCP servers.” But when you peel it back, most o... Joel Martinez 2025-06-05 2025-06-05 https://codecube.net/2025/5/brewmite/ Sometimes life gives you weirdly unique opportunities. I wrote about my experience being in a beer commercial recently on LinkedIn (cheekily, in "Linkedinfluencer" style), which I've repr... Joel Martinez 2025-05-27 2025-05-27 https://codecube.net/2024/1/copilot-for-azure/ Taking a moment to update here about Microsoft Copilot for Azure (Ask Learn... Joel Martinez 2024-01-15 2024-01-15 https://codecube.net/2023/7/what-ive-been-up-to-since-2020/ The last few years have been ... interesting, for lack of a better term. After basically checking out from social media, in about July of 2020 when the world starting dealing with pandemics, lockdo... Joel Martinez 2023-07-09 2023-07-09 https://codecube.net/2023/7/back-online/ Well ... it's been entirely too long, but if you're reading this I'm BACK ONLINE! Technically, the site has never been offline, but the deployment pipeline was mistakenly deleted sometime in 2021. ... Joel Martinez 2023-07-04 2023-07-04 https://codecube.net/2020/7/recollecting-my-thoughts/ As I've egostistically announced yesterday, I'm taking a short break from social media. With this break, comes a chance to reflect over this activity that has certainly taken over our entire cultur... Joel Martinez 2020-07-08 2020-07-08 https://codecube.net/2020/7/clarity/ There's a lot of things going on in the world today ... it feels like we've lived 10 lifetimes in the last 3-4 months. All of the above left my mind in almost a literal cloudy haze ... it was almos... Joel Martinez 2020-07-08 2020-07-08 https://codecube.net/2020/7/social-media-diet/ This has been a long time coming, but I'd never actually gathered up the ... courage isn't the right word ... but the oomph to actually do it until now. I'm going to limit my social media participa... Joel Martinez 2020-07-07 2020-07-07 https://codecube.net/2019/7/audio-post/ Trying out something new ... adding some dynamic audio generation capabilities to my blog posts, using tone.js. Turn up your speakers and let's see if this works: Play Sound document.postcon... Joel Martinez 2019-07-27 2019-07-27 https://codecube.net/2018/10/programmatically-open-pull-request/ When integrating github repositories into any automated workflow, a very common pattern is for the process to open a pull request against some repository. This lets a human step into the mix and re... Joel Martinez 2018-10-24 2018-10-24 https://codecube.net/2018/5/review-your-pipelines/ So everyone knows that friends don't let friends right-click-publish. I had previously posted about how I created a continuous deployment... Joel Martinez 2018-05-21 2018-05-21