About Delphi Chops

Delphi Chops is a technical blog about Delphi, software development, and the practical crafts of programming and system architecture.

The name comes from a musician’s term: “chops.”

When a player has good chops, it means they’ve put in the time—developing control, technique, and professional competence. This blog is about doing the same thing in Delphi, and more broadly in IT: learning by building, refining, and solving real problems.

Here you’ll find:

Practical Delphi techniques

Explorations of modern tools, libraries, and workflows

Notes from hands-on experiments (including what didn’t work)

Occasional forays into adjacent areas such as other languages, system architecture, technical stacks, and AI

I’ve spent decades working in and around IT—programming, systems, instruction, and operations—across industries ranging from transportation to finance and healthcare. Delphi has been a recurring tool throughout that journey, and this site is a place to sharpen those skills in public.

This isn’t a marketing blog or a tutorial factory. It’s a working notebook from someone still learning, still curious, and still earning his chops.

If that sounds useful, I’m glad you’re here.

— Milan