I wrote a simple, ai-assisted, folder-based, markdown-based second brain created as a vs code custom agent (appears in agent dropdown). github.com/rickhodder/S... Not a single line of code - the agents and orchestration all defined in markdown.

Time to burn through any usage limits with a single prompt 😁 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

If you want to tell good stories in your logs, learn about logs and OpenTelemetry from @barretblake.dev : www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU6l... #logs #OpenTelemetry #OTel

🖥️ Are you thinking of running AI on your own hardware? 😵‍💫 Are you unsure of which models you should pick? 💡 Sadukie talks about the considerations of choosing an AI model in this post: 👇🏻 https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/choosing-an-ai-model-with-self-hosted-ai/ #AI

USDA data confirms what farmers already know: Trump’s policies are killing family farms. In Ohio, we lost 400 farms last year. Yet Trump still wants massive tariffs - unacceptable.

hot take: humans have more intrinsic value than its comparison against a trained computer model as a worker in a capitalist statistical spreadsheet

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

💢 Your ability to respond quickly to prod fires greatly depends on debugging what went wrong. 💡 Effective observability provides you with the logging, details, and insights that will guide your efforts from failure to recovery. Learn more about OTel: https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/otel/

🔍 Adding telemetry to your resilience pipeline with Polly gives you insight into how your application behaves and interacts with the external services you consume. In this blog post, Jeff Z. walks through telemetry with Polly: 👇🏻 https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/adding-observability-to-polly/

Friend describing his mindset as “a state of surviving the rug pull on democracy”. Check in on your friends and family during this time. Community is as important now as ever.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Reminder that Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest like this and Republicans called him a hero

Trump and Stephen Miller are looking for any excuse to use the insurrection act, declare martial law, and crown Trump the puppet king. Peaceful protest enrages them, and they will only get more reckless and bloodier as their power starts to wane. We must continue to stand together. We WILL win

Some awful things happening today, and a lot of video showing what really happened. But a lot of videos that were there an hour or two ago are now gone. If you want to make sure evidence isn't erased, be aware tools like this exist. www.bskydownloader.com

Minnesota, you are making the midwest proud. Being there for your neighbors is an ingrained culture in the northern flyover states. It just what we do. Always. Sometimes that’s showing up with a casserole. Sometimes it’s standing up to a fascist occupying force. Midwest Nice. But Not for ICE.

if people no longer read the code, API is no longer targeting humans, is there still a need for "good API design"? is it still worth the effort to figure out what would be the best for users, instead of the best of ai to understand/use? I don't know.

If you like using 'cd -' in your shell to return to previous directory but are bummed that it is broken in #PowerShell 7 I have a solution for you. But really it's for future me, mostly. Also talks about oh-my-posh and custom $PROMPT stuff. Enjoy. Share. Etc. ardalis.com/use-cd---in-...

Early title screen for Fossil Rush 🦴⛏️ A multiplayer push-your-luck web game in the spirit of Incan Gold. Still super WIP! #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev

Just learned a bunch about MCP servers and how to use them locally both for dev tasks and internal company functionality on today's devBetter.com coaching call. There's some cool stuff in the Docker MCP toolkit and it's pretty easy to spin up your own MCP server with the #dotnet new templates.

Did you notice that the "What's new in F# 10" page is longer than the "What's new in C# 14" page? #justTrolling #dotnet #fsharp #csharp learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

Here we go! #dotnet

Got zombies 🧟 and ghosts 👻 as your messaging monsters? 😱 Kyle posts on how to fight them using the Outbox pattern as well as #NServiceBus! 📨 Vanquish these monsters TODAY! 👇🏻 https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/messaging-monsters-zombies-ghosts-outbox/

It may seem impossible to have hope in these turbulent days But America has been through much worse, and recovered-every time The Civil War The Great Depression World Wars I and II The Civil Rights era So don’t give up Stay engaged Support one another We will get through this And we will win

Excited to give Composer a try. Cursor 2.0 is out now cursor.com/blog/2-0

If you're wanting more NServiceBus content, we have plenty to offer in our series. Check it out here: https://blog.nimblepros.com/series/nservicebus/

Working with #NServiceBus and need to deal with cross-cutting concerns? 🤔 A behavior lets you inspect, enrich, validate, measure, or enforce policies without touching every handler. 💡 Learn more: 👇🏻 https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/messaging-middleware-nservicebus-behaviors/

Celebrating the fifth anniversary of installing solar panels on our church. We produce as much power as is used in 5 homes each year, save money, and provide clean power at a discount to a non-profit partner through community solar. So much winning!

righteous gemstones was a documentary

Have you ever been playing a game and realized that the skills you use in gaming may also apply to your work? 🤔 Sadukie blogs about some thoughts on leadership skills learned while playing games. 🎲🎮 Check it out here: blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/level-... #gaming #SoftwareDevelopment #leadership

😵 There are a lot of different tools out there to allow you to manage complicated applications and the infrastructure that you need to develop them. 💡 Barret shares thoughts on why you should consider .NET Aspire for this: https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/net-aspire-why-we-should-consider-it/

Good morning with good news: CA's solar & wind generated more than 50% of CA's electricity for 3 consecutive months! CA is world's 4th largest economy. 2025: April (51.8%), May (52.4%) & June (51.2%) 2015: April (21.2%), May (23.2%) & June (19.5%) S&W 3X in GWh from June 2015-June 2025 #energysky

📦 Announcing NuSeal A library to protect your NuGet packages with custom licensing! NuSeal provides the infrastructure for creating and validating licenses. It validates the licenses during build time. #dotnet #csharp github.com/fiseni/NuSeal

Missed our .NET Aspire webinar yesterday? We've got you covered! All of our past webinars are available on our YouTube channel in the Webinars playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9aiMUEQ7sc95nU_KsTK4wh1gmJhlk35q #TechTraining

ArgumentOutOfRangeException? A more descriptive exception could be DepositAmountMustBePositiveException. 💰 Learn how to do this in C# in this post from Scott: https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/the-value-of-custom-exceptions/ #dotnet #exceptions

This was a fun topic to write about because the evolution of the sample through murky "plumbing code" to a concise semantically meaningful messaging handler is something I've experienced in real world projects. I'm happy to share that 🪄magic 🪄 with others as I explore the Unit of Work pattern.

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This was a fun topic to write about because the evolution of the sample through murky "plumbing code" to a concise semantically meaningful messaging handler is something I've experienced in real world projects. I'm happy to share that 🪄magic 🪄 with others as I explore the Unit of Work pattern.

Networks hiccup, databases time out, and that AI agent you’ve been using seems to hallucinate more each day 🤖. Kyle write about how you can use NServiceBus' features to recover from messaging failures. ⬇️ https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/recoverability-with-nservicebus/ #NServiceBus

In a distributed system, ensuring that messages are delivered reliably and consistently can be challenging. 😩 With system failures, messages can be lost or not processed correctly. 💥 Learn how the Outbox pattern can help: https://deviq.com/design-patterns/outbox-pattern #DevIQ #DesignPatterns

The Outbox design pattern is a messaging pattern that can be used to ensure data consistency and reliability in distributed systems. 👀 Learn more about how you can work with this using C#: https://deviq.com/design-patterns/outbox-pattern #OutboxPattern #DesignPatterns #DevIQ

GPT-5 is now available in VS Code 🚀 github.blog/changelog/20...

Need an example of how to work with NServiceBus? We have our eShopOnNServiceBus for that! In this blog post, Sadukie explains the different resources we have configured in our .NET Aspire setup for this repo! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3UPNxRb #dotnetAspire #NServiceBus

Have you heard of .NET Aspire but aren't sure how it'll help you? It makes it easy to containerize apps and their dependencies! Be sure to check out Barret Blake's .NET Aspire talk at #CincyDeliver! https://www.cincydeliver.org/Sessions/Details/5530#CincyDeliver #dotnet #DistributedApps

i helped Sarah update some Aspire things yesterday in prep for her NService Bus webinar today - it's open to the public! in like 45 min! www.youtube.com/live/YWHY09R...

▶️ LIVE NOW - Sadukie is presenting our webinar on "A Lap Around NServiceBus" on our YouTube channel! Check it out here: https://youtube.com/live/YWHY09R46m4 #SoftwareArchitecture #NServiceBus

Great topic! Check out this post for considerations you should be aware of when designing distributed systems

Working with Ardalis.Result and want to convert the result to a different type? In this blog post, @KyleMcMaster.com covers the Map method in Ardalis.Results: https://bit.ly/4d07jkK #SoftwareDevelopment

Explore allocation-free alternatives to LINQ's GroupBy in #dotnet 👇 fiseni.com/posts/alloca...

Importantly, two things in life are now free: 1. A DeepSeek model you can run on your machine 2. Michael Bay's Pain and Gain youtu.be/-SPReZarVsM