Building a production-ready C# SDK for a fast moving API - and shipping on time - sounds impossible, but our three-person team did it in six months. See how we turned Astra DB into a one-line NuGet install, kept pace with breaking changes, and helped thousands of .NET developers skip the boilerplate and start prototyping.

...and how to avoid them without slowing down your team. Is free really free? Can I send this to a coworker? What about AI generated content? Get answers to all this and more by reading this comprehensive guide!

Skip the cloud and keep customer data in-house: this quick guide shows how to pair VS Code’s Continue extension with Ollama so a coding-tuned LLM runs entirely on your local machine. Spin up a 1.5 B model in seconds, see what you gain from a 32 B upgrade, and choose the perfect speed-vs-accuracy trade-off for secure development.

What happens when you ask all the major AI frontier models to build a clone of Settlers of Catan for the web? Our team at Sembit recently did this - here's what we learned.

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but a functional prototype is easily worth a hundred thousand. With this quick guide you can skip the lengthy emails and learn to communicate your ideas graphically with Figma prototypes instead!

How do dataflow processors work? Check out this visualizer tool we built for the new E1 processor that shows number values being routed to processing units. With a dynamic graphic, you'll understand it immediately.

Remote work is amazing... Until the dragons come. Interruption dragon, Distraction dragon, Demotivation dragon - each one lowers your productivity and job satisfaction as you fight them. Battle-hardened staff at Sembit share dragon-slaying techniques from 15 years of working from home.

Excited to share your app with the Android users in your life? This resource will walk you through the elements you'll need to prepare and steps you'll need to take to release your app in the Play Store.

Want to collaborate securely with your development partner on AWS? This guide breaks down how to set up isolated AWS accounts for staging and production - all under your corporate billing umbrella. Learn how this approach compares to a more advanced IAM-based setup, including pros, cons, and when to keep it simple.

Last November, a mid-sized tech company in California called us, wanting to discuss a port of their technology to the .NET platform. Towards the end of our call, I asked how they found us. He said, "oh, Sophie reached out via email". Only problem is, nobody named Sophie has ever worked at Sembit!

Seven raven feathers. Two eyes of newt. Then add just a dash of Times New Roman to the cauldron... Choosing a font may seem like a mysterious art only practiced by graphic designers under the light of a full moon, but it doesn't have to be! Apply these simple techniques to identify a good font.

Today's ultra-low-power microcontrollers are amazing, using a million times less power than a single desktop CPU core. Many of these can only do one kind of computation, but Sembit is working with a cutting-edge company that achieves ultra-efficiency with a general-purpose microcontroller.

We tested Copilot, the leading AI software development tool from Microsoft, and compared its performance now versus one year ago. Here's what we discovered.

A detailed log of our test with GitHub Copilot performing various programming tasks in HTML, C#, and SQL.

No one wants their software project to fail. But how can you ensure success? Everything comes down to a shared understanding of what "success" means, and one primary way to achieve this is through an effective design process.

You've got an amazing app that you want to share with the world, and you want to release it in the Apple App Store. Most don't realize it's a multi-step process with many pieces to construct. Reading this illustrated guide will help you gather the necessary information and make app submission a breeze.

On May 1, Microsoft ended support for the Xamarin platform they purchased in 2016 that allowed developers to use C# to create Android / iOS apps. If your company still has a mobile app built with Xamarin, you have a few options.