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July 6, 2026
Give Your Delphi App a Brain — Without Sending a Single Byte to the Cloud
Your Delphi application already works. It has fifteen years of business logic baked in, forms your users know in their sleep, and a database schema that has survived three Windows versions. The last thing you want to hear is "rewrite it." You don't have to.
- Delphi
- LLM
- Local AI
- Next.js
- VCL
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A Virtual Machine Is Not Version Control — And Here's What to Do Instead
If you speak at developer conferences often enough, the same conversation keeps coming back around. There are plenty of talented developers out there — often Delphi developers, often people who have shipped serious software for twenty…
- Delphi
- Git
- GitKraken
- Forgejo
- .NET
July 2, 2026
Four Hours to Migrate a 6-Year-Old Delphi Multi-Tier App
I want to be very precise about the claim in that title, because it sounds like the kind of thing people say to sell a course.
- AI
- Migration
- Next.js
- Prisma
- Firebird
June 28, 2026
GitKraken Is Now the Code Flow Company — and the Name Actually Means Something
As a GitKraken Ambassador I've watched the company evolve from "the nice Git GUI with the green-and-purple commit graph" into something with a much bigger thesis. This month they made it official: GitKraken is repositioning as the Code…
- GitKraken
- Code Flow
- AI Agents
- Developer Workflow
- Git
June 20, 2026
A Recommendation Is Not a Verdict
Let me be blunt: when I share a Delphi component on this blog, I am not handing down a judgment from the mountain. I am not declaring everything else obsolete. I am not saying I have never heard of your favorite alternative. I am a…
- Delphi
June 18, 2026
Free Barcode & QR Code Generation for Delphi VCL
Barcodes and QR codes are everywhere. Product labels, warehouse management systems, invoices, event tickets, asset tracking, mobile deep links — if you're building business software, sooner or later someone will ask for them. My friends at…
- Delphi
- VCL
- Barcodes
- QR Codes
- TMS Software
June 15, 2026
The One Who Got Away: Anders Hejlsberg, Decades Later
A lot of long-time Delphi developers carry a small, fond nostalgia. We don't talk about it much, but it's there. It's the feeling you get when you read about Anders Hejlsberg shipping yet another world-changing thing — and you remember…
- Delphi
- Object Pascal
- TypeScript
- History
- AI
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