Fast-follow to this, I shipped a new release that adds support for a `--redact` flag to the `list` and `get` commands and a `--copy` flag to the `export` command. github.com/captainsafia...

Another winter break coding side quest... I created a CLI tool called "burrow" for managing local secrets, inspired by `dotnet user-secrets`. But, it’s a standalone executable and it uses SQLite instead of JSON as the backing store. Check it out at safia.rocks/burrow/ 🐰

OK, I like this interaction pattern for closing issues in Sprig 😍 Hover over the state icon and it turns purple. Click and you get a dropdown with different options for closing. I really like when UI elements have "depth" like this but IDK about discoverability here...

I see lots of tips around using tools like Mole to clean up your Mac. Those work great for me but by far the best thing was turning off Apple Intelligence (which I don't use at all)...this was like 30GB before 😱

My Christmas gift to myself is this feature in Sprig that uses the Anthropic SDK to map natural language queries to structure GitHub queries. GitHub's query syntax is so rich and I only remember 5% of it...now I won't ever have to! Happy holidays! 🎁❄️

A thing I'm playing around with in Sprig is eager-fetching of issue details + comments when the user hovers over an item in the results list. When they click to load it up in the preview, the data has already been fetched + cached and is rendering for rendering in the view.

Scratching my own itch over winter break: building an alternative UI for GitHub Notifications to improve issue + discussion triage. First must-have: comments sorted in reverse chronological order so the newest context is always immediately visible without weird scroll issues.

I wrote this blog post about ANSI codes... ...which was actually just an excuse to sharpen my UX chops and build this little GUI for exploring how ANSI codes impact rendering. 🤠 Fun and easy with Tailwind + Claude + lots of iteration. 🔗 : blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/22/a...

Drove past a construction site for a new townhouse development. Nothing’s built yet but they had the cluster mailbox units already up. There’s a software engineering metaphor in there somewhere… 😆

By Claude, we’re not entering 2026 with unfinished projects! I've been polishing my CLI tool for git worktrees with features like syncing primary branches, navigating worktrees, self-updating, and auto-publishing signed builds. It's getting there... 🪄

went to the settings page to create a new PAT ended up thinking about who should inherit my assigned issues when i die when did this land on the GitHub settings page?

ladies what's worse: being gaslight by a man or being gaslight by an AI agent lying to you about what is in the fucking screenshot it took with the Playwright MCP?!!?

idk why but this is my kink

I spent much of the Aspire 13.1 cycle fixing how container images get pushed: removing implicit registries, making image pushes first-class, and unlocking more parallelism. More extensibility, faster deploys. Heck yeah! 🔗: blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/15/aspire-image-push/ #aspire @aspire.dev

It’s probably old news at this point but I finally updated the npm packages I was shipping to use trust publishing with OIDC for npm + GitHub Actions. Getting my security hygiene in check before the new year 😆

I just realized I fix bugs in my code the same way some musicians tune their guitar sometimes. 😆

A key part of being a good dev is being able to understand code *conceptually* not *literally*.

Saw a video of someone wrestling with setup for a dev tool and realized…I basically never do setup myself anymore? I just point a CLI agent at the README/etc. and tell it to follow the instructions and configure things. It works well most of the time. Anyone else doing this?

One of my favorite AI tricks lately: letting Warp handle my gnarly rebases and merge conflicts. As someone who lives in git on the command line, having AI slot directly into my terminal workflow feels way better than bouncing out to other tools.

Aspire’s Docker Compose integration is a typed Compose graph + staged deployment pipeline that generates YAML, resolves params, builds images, and runs compose up. Today’s post walks through the flow/philosophy behind it. #aspire @aspire.dev 🔗: blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/08/a...

I didn't end up doing any of them during the week and had to catch up over the weekend, but I'm there! If timing works out, I'll try to squeeze out Day 8 when it gets released tonight and see if I can get back on track the rest of the week 😅

x.com/panchito built a _really_ slick looking Github file viewer clone that fully uses RSCs and new React features, as well as making smart use of modern CSS. Great writeup on the implementation: wtbb.vercel.app I tried browsing the React repo example and it's _fast_! Really impressive!

You are me. What is this directory for and what does each directory inside it contain?

oh gosh gimme a break

we stan @captainsafia.com

I'm very impressed by the electricians we hired who completed the project on-time. However, they refused to patch the drywall they removed in the process and didn't appreciate the lecture that I gave them about ownership and agency. :/

I just brought @nostarchpress.bsky.social's Hacking bundle on @humblebundle.com! Up to 18 DRM-free books and your donation goes to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation. www.humblebundle.com/books/hackin...

Somebody asked me recently how Aspire auto-spins up the Azure Functions runtime when your AppHost includes a Functions project. I wrote about how it works and the .NET SDK feature that makes it possible. 🔗 : blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/02/a... #aspire @aspire.dev

what my build pipeline sees when I’m waiting for the artifacts to drop

Today’s blog post looks at Aspire's AsExisting APIs for wiring in existing cloud resources. I dig into why the current shape is a naming maze and how it could be simpler. TL;DR: Hindsight’s 20/20 and I wish I had a third eye. 🔗 : blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/01/a... #aspire @aspire.dev

OK! I’ve decided I’m gonna get in on the action and do Advent of Code this year. Biggest thing for me with these is keeping up the consistency throughout the entire month especially because December is a liminal month for me.

I think I've played around with Opus enough to have an opinion. I appreciate how direct and to the point it is as a model. Other jumps, between Sonnet versions let's say, haven't felt as pronounced to me as this one has for the problems I've been working through.

Pro-tip: Use the `--show-config` flag in the git CLI to nail down where a setting is coming from. ``` $ git config --show-origin credential.helper ``` Very helpful if you, like me, find yourself spiraling trying to figure out how XCode borked the credentials setup for git 🙃

I hate it when corporate policies on my device restart VS Code without my consent 😭

Continuing my series dissecting APIs and the thinking behind them. Today: balancing abstraction vs. control. Great APIs let you start simple and grow into complexity as you need to. Exploring this through minimal APIs' SSE support: blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/24/a... #dotnet #aspnetcore

There’s something *super* satisfying about an API that assumes users want the simplest path but still leaves plenty of room to stretch. IMO, MapOpenApi nails that balance perfectly. 👌🏽 I wrote my thoughts about it: blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/20/a... #dotnet #aspnetcore

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🤓 Productivity exemplified: How I planned, prompted, and "tamed" AI to migrate to @aspire.dev #aspire davidpine.net/blog/aspire-...

I'm thrilled that @desjoerd.com is joining us as a community triager on the dotnet/aspnetcore repo! He’s been on a tear the past few months: digging into minimal API and OpenAPI issues, chasing down tricky bugs, and always centering the dev experience. #dotnet #aspnetcore

My contribution to the discourse: SOON, Safia's Outstanding Object Notation. A format made for the chaos of human language should be just as chaotic, but also just as expressive. 😀

I tried to sync stats from my $200 walking pad into Apple Health and ended up with a full GPT + Aspire app with LLM-based image analysis instead. Unhinged and over-engineered. I love it. blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/17/t...

I brought a Daylight Computer a few weeks ago but I was underwhelmed with the software on it so I’m selling it. Lightly used and comes in all the original packaging. More deets on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/daylightco... If it doesn’t sell, I’m gonna have to write my own OS for it 😱

Thanks to all who came to my .NET Conf session, you can watch it again at www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hk... The presentation is available at dotnetconf2025.azurevoodoo.net & the sample github.com/azurevoodoo/... Cake 6.0 & Sdk launch blog post cakebuild.net/blog/2025/11... #dotnet #devops #csharp

Nothing more satisfying than walking into a problem you know nothing about and then *really* figuring it the fuck out.

🥳 I have a bit of news to share, github.com/microsoft/as... is now open source! #aspire @aspire.dev

First: I am really proud of this blog post title. It’s for the girlies (IYKYK). Second: .NET 10 drops tomorrow, so I did a whirlwind tour of the big and small features I worked on this cycle. Third: go read it! #dotnet #aspnetcore 📰 :https://blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/10/aspnetcore-ten/

What's the killer tool for effectively managing GitHub notifications? I feel like the default UI is really holding back at this point and I'm not the type to do GH notifications over email. Octobox hasn't done the trick for me either.

I've been doing some hacking on a prototype that requires testing the bebavior of a REST API framework. It's so nice to use Hurl to write integration tests against a sample app that runs in my CI/CD pipeline. Nicer than unit tests in code even 🫣 hurl.dev

Rerunning a job on GitHub Actions feels like