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Never Let Migration Tooling Guess the Database

One of the more dangerous database configuration errors is not a failed connection. It is a successful connection to a database nobody deliberately selected. That is why an EF Core design-time DbContext factory deserves more scrutiny than “CLI plumbing”. It decides how tooling constructs the model outside the application’s normal startup path. If it also searches broadly for connection details,…

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Rust Borrow Checker 2.0 is Finally Here

Perfectly safe Rust code that wouldn't compile until today is now finally compiling! The wait is over. Polonius: The Next Evolution of Rust's Borrow Checker Rust's borrow checker keeps our code safe…

Beyond the chargers: Inside Nigeria’s emerging EV infrastructure race

In an exclusive Nairametrics interview, Philip Ogunleye, Founder and CEO of Vine Mobility & Technologies, discusses the current state of Nigeria's EV charging infrastructure, the evolving charging experience for drivers, the role of software and data in managing charging networks, the business models shaping the sector and what is…

Designing MCP tools an agent won't misuse

The first article in this series made a pair of claims. One: an AI-native product is an MCP server that lets an agent do things, not a chat widget that talks about them. Two: every write an agent can invoke needs idempotency and typed, recoverable errors, because agents retry and fan out by default. Both took typed schemas for granted.

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