Configuring structured logging with Serilog is something every Aspire app should be doing immediately, among other things. The OTEL support is right there in Aspire!

It'll be option 1 all day. A machine that feeds itself.

this is why the whole “oh, suffering creates great art” thing is bullshit you know what’s conducive to art? a roof over your head and food on the table you know what isn’t? stressing out over where the fuck the rent money is going to come from

If #AI becomes a huge part of software development in the near future, I wonder if it will lead to one of two possible outcomes (or somewhere in between) Option 1: Coalescence For a given kind of app, the LLM chooses whatever tools/stack it has the most info on or preference toward

Man famous for missing every deadline or prediction he's ever given predicts wildly optimistic timeline for tech thing. #AI timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

New Post from Ian Griffiths: getting T4 working on .NET 10 based on our experiences with Rx .NET & Reaqtor (which use a lot of T4 for type generation). IMHO T4 either needs some love from Microsoft or it needs to be fully open sourced. #dotnet #csharp #t4 endjin.com/blog/2026/02...

Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

If only there were other investment options, like index or mutual funds. But sadly these do not exist so this is the best we can do… Wait what’s that you say?

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Ok, so I wrote a very long and kinda personal thing about existential dread and the end of programming, and I'm not really sure I want to endure the discourse, but if you want to read it, it's here - gist.github.com/davidwhitney... It's like 6,000 words long, sorry.

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Apparently you this is 25 years old now… youtu.be/qItugh-fFgg?...

"Are they brazen enough? Does John Roberts feel invulnerable enough at this point that the Court can just say black is white, up is down, and climate is not a problem? That’ll be interesting to watch."

Don't connect a WPF app to #NServiceBus, forward those events to #SignalR instead. See how!

And so the U.S. auto industry’s death spiral accelerates. This is the manufacturing equivalent of the FDA allowing packaged food companies to mix in broken glass and dog shit, in order to protect the packaged food industry.

Apparently all you have to do is criticize ICE for tech companies to start giving your info to DHS. Very cool and good.

The legacy media keeps getting this wrong. Trump didn't say "nationalize the election." He said We should take over the VOTING in at least many—15 places.' The Republicans ought to nationalize the VOTING." There is a big difference.

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Why do republicans keep referring to the stock market in dollars instead of points?

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NASA Picture of the Day To Fly Free in Space

They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.

I wish #anthropic would have a way for #claudecode to use a cloud environment that supports #dotnet and #github like my local environment.

I do not fear the rise of superintelligence. I do, however, fear the rise of billionaires, organizations, and world powers who seek to use computing to maximize their power, influence, and control.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

A couple of years after his death, I‘ve started trying to figure out my dad’s art collection. It’s mostly Japanese and Chinese but with some nice 20th-century plein air pieces of local mountains. It’s a mix of good and medium stuff. /1

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The co-founder exodus at xAI is blamed on Elon’s focus on Grok producing NSFW content and being perennially behind leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. I guess being pioneers in AI generated CSAM and deepfake porn was less exciting than they originally imagined.🤷🏾‍♂️

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It’s like when hiring - you want people that are smart and get things done. But the worst quadrant from the business’s perspective isn’t a “no” to both. The worst is the dumb but productive worker. Because they create more work for everyone else. That’s what LLMs are: Dumb but extremely productive

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LLMs Need a Mark as Answer Feature Otherwise they're not going to be able to effectively mine their interaction data to provide better answers in the future. ardalis.com/llms-need-ma... #ai #llms #chatgpt #claude

It's quite likely that AI (by which I mean LLMs) will displace a lot of knowledge workers. There's clear evidence for this already, in spite of the tools being unreliable and in almost all cases unaccountable. Almost every use case for AI in knowledge work still requires a human in the loop, not...

I took a break from talking about AI for various reasons. But I'm back on it. You can find my general stance on things in my pinned post. But I kinda wanna talk about the specific conversation around "replacing humans". It's really complicated, but it needs to be addressed.

They want to pay us less so they can accrue more profit to themselves. They want us to feel precarious so we are captive to capitalist hierarchies instead of building our own sustainability. And they want to give us non-human villains to fight so we don't notice that it's them.

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Yesterday, it was GitHub. Today, Zoom is having issues.

@github.com is struggling today... must be a super bowl hangover...

Great breakdown of the Bad Bunny Halftime Show 👇

If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Well done Seattle!

They say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.