I spent the last three days working with a new client reviewing their #ElasticSearch set up and fixing their problematic queries. We managed to reduce the execution times under load by over 3000%! #goodnews

Alien: Earth (N. Hawley and others, 2025)

🚀 Rider 2025.2.2 is out! This update brings: 🔻 Junie for Rider – now out of Beta! 🔻 The new “Add .NET Aspire Orchestration” action for #Aspire projects 🔻 Numerous fixes improving stability and performance Read the full list changes 👉 jb.gg/rd-252-2-bs

Building £multi-billion data centres isn't "an investment in UK A.I.". If it was, that money would be going into education, research and start-ups. Instead, it's mostly going to go into construction, power generation and other infrastructure, and all for a technology that doesn't work.

Hopefully this means AWS will support STS versions in Lambda.

Some of these are diabolical. Programmers asked to make the worst volume slider they could think of. youtube.com/shorts/0zfuS... #ux

Update: finally had a proper chat with my Chinese neighbours last night. I told them my favourite dish in the world is Xi'an biang biang noodles. My neighbour immediately says "come over to our house and I will make them for you." You don't need to tell me twice. Immigration rules

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧 The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products! This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word! The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it's ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest

I'm dying

This is fascinating!

Software development

my roommate was trying to find the menu for a nearby bagel shop and instead found some of the most iconic slop I've ever seen. thanks food! :)

Doing the old lady screening (1730) of Weapons at the cinema, as I'm still all over the place with jet lag.

“My view is you absolutely want to keep hiring kids out of college and teaching them the right ways to go build software and decompose problems and think about it, just as much as you ever have.” Amen to that. www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

The fact that I still cannot watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 17 in the UK yet is frankly astonishing. They wonder why people pirate content.

I'm seeing fewer posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation, and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of. ⬇️

I'm reading this whole thread, and I feel so seen.

Blogged: Converting an xUnit test project to TUnit andrewlock.net/converting-a... In this post I discuss the new TUnit testing framework, why I ported one of my libraries to use it instead of xUnit and related issues I had to deal with #dotnet #testing

It's funny because it's true.

Resulting in the creation of a class of people to handle the tasks generative AI used to perform, called “artists and scientists”.

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

London is pretty safe, it's not perfect, but it's pretty safe.

Awesome gamesmanship from Hannah Hampton. youtube.com/shorts/SK9e2...

‘I've been pulled into a disciplinary meeting for saying robotic slurs at work’ www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdvic...

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

I love GitHub and I think Microsoft has done a great job after the acquisition. I think however that they desperately need to take a step back, replace the CEO, and make sure that the next one has some kind of media training. What Thomas Dohmke wrote is unacceptable.

This is just wildly inappropriate.

I so hope this fixes some of the recent bugs I've been seeing. It has looked from the outside like the #dependabot team was struggling.

Having a bloody heart attack watching #England v #India in the #Cricket

Dune, 1965

One of the side-effects of the Startup model / entry points in modern .NET is people forget to design good bootstrapping code, so every .NET process just looks like a bunch of DI registrations that doesn't hint at what a program does. Horrible second order effect. Kinda hate it.

This post is just so perfect.

Great flex by Rasmus Jarlov

For those of you that use the #Structurizr DSL for publishing your #C4 Architecture diagrams and would like to use #dotnetaspire to add them to your AppHost. Then I have a NuGet package for you: www.nuget.org/packages/Str... #dotnet #aspire #nuget

On my first full day of holiday, I managed to lose my sunglasses and break my mobile phone.

This turtle on a skateboard has brought me great joy @gentlem.bsky.social @dynavox.bsky.social

Jet lag is not going well this trip. I'm wide awake at 0200.

This thread is incredible.

Not the best start to the holiday. #MalaysianAirlines

NuGet Package Deletion – Learnings & Prevention #dotnet #nuget github.com/NuGet/Home/d...

Anyone building #dotnet #Aspire hosting packages know the answer to this one? github.com/dotnet/aspir... cc @davidfowl.com @maddymontaquila.net

Hey folks! I’m open to contract work, anything #dotnet. If you need help, feel free to reach out!

Does #microsoft even care about #dependabot at all any more? The #dotnet support has multiple open bugs causing valid configurations (that is, ones that worked at the beginning of the year) not to produce results, for months now. For a commercially supported product, that feels like a sad joke […]

#Chelsea are World Champions. #CareFree

I honestly don't care what happens now in the World Club Cup Final. I've got my #Chelsea back. #CareFree

The women working in my local chippy have had enough of your nonsense today. In fairness, it was fucking hot in there. I don’t know how they cope!