Come hang out with the Philly .NET community on Discord! Talk code, swap ideas, get help, and stay updated on meetups and events. If you haven’t joined yet, jump in, introduce yourself, and be part of the discussion. discord.gg/j7mFC6H8jE #devcommunity #developers #phillydotnet #dotnet #usergroup

At one place we had a service costing $6000/month. When we switched from detailed to summary logging cost fell to $1000/month. No one had ever read the logs.

Oh, and I wrote about some considerations for all those now tasked with MEASURING the impact of AI on their organizations. Because social media debates don't really help those of us actually struggling with this real work right now. www.fightforthehuman.com/how-not-to-m...

That branch you created three months ago? The one you've been dreading to merge? Let's talk about why that dread is justified.

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

Can you do it in less than ideal circumstances? Yes. Even just investing in 8-10 minute "microlearning" can produce measurable effects in people's mental models and retention of new material. This type of approach has been in a lot of edtech!

I killed my team's self-organization by being helpful. Every time someone asked a question I gave them the answer. Turns out that was the problem.

Hey folks, I fell for a phishing scam through Discord. They tried to grab access to some stuff but couldn't do anything more than scrape my Google Cloud information and my phone contacts because of my thick wall of MFA/password vaults. Don't click/download anything from anyone impersonating me.

Every month I do a management security briefing where I go through the current .NET MSRC cases. I have a state of the industry slide as the final slide. This month I could have filled it up entirely with agentic AI and AI browser vulnerabilities.

My first contribution to the awesome-copilot repo was just merged... A skill for the winapp CLI. github.com/github/aweso...

Google Gemini: It appears the image generation model is unable to create a truly transparent background for your icon. It consistently interprets "transparency" as a request to generate the visual placeholder for transparency (the checkered pattern), rather than an actual clear alpha channel.

“[Massachusetts] Voters soon face a choice: Should the next generation have a realistic path to homeownership in the communities where they work, grew up, or hope to stay, or should exclusionary lot-size rules continue to determine who belongs and who does not?”

On this day in 1922, a Polish Jewish woman was born. She was interned in Drancy from where, on the 4 Sep 1942, she was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. Her name was Sara Zlotogorski Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

Microsoft Starts Sharing Your Location With Your Employer

Today our talent highlight is Tajazziah! She recently built The Cut, a tool that analyzes and models your financial health through clear, dynamic charts. Learn more about Tajazziah and watch her app demo here: www.resilienthires.com/fellow-profi... #Boston #OpenToWork #RCAlumni #SoftwareEngineer

#iPhone #LiquidGlass and other changes with iOS 26 is freaking my eye balls out. Did anyone at #Apple test the accessibility of the #iOS26 designs? Because it sure doesn’t seem like it. The changes make it difficult to read the screen. Everything is faded, wobbly and not clear and crisp. #Mac #iPad

Since making workshops takes some time, I try to stay sharp by trying new tech. Lately, I've tried Remix 3, Solid, and TanStack Start for the first time. All are extremely interesting! I will be writing about some of them in the future. What new things have you tried lately?

Just used Claude Code and the Chrome devtools MCP to identify a gnarly CSS/HTML bug that has plagued me for months. I'm still not letting CC touch any of my real code—everything runs in a sandboxed account in placeholder fake projects—but it can sometimes be really useful.

🐍Python Mistakes Everyone Makes ❌ Day 12: Not Closing Files Detailed Explanation: www.clcoding.com/2025/12/day-...

This is a lesson to all of you: *talk to people*. Teach yourself to ask. Being annoying is free. Rewriting a month-worth of code is not. There is no better way to level up as an engineer than code review. It starts from how well you're able to plan out the feature and split it.

In-Person Weekly #Hack Night - First Tuesday Jan 6 Cambridge Innovation Center, 4th Floor Cafe 1 Broadway · Cambridge, MA #Boston @codeforboston.bsky.social www.meetup.com/code-for-bos...

JavaScript's date object has been tricky for years, but that is changing. The NEW Temporal API brings, 🌍 Easily handle time zones 📆 Precise date math 🕒 Parse ISO strings without errors ⌛ Durations, date ranges, and more. Start experimenting 👇 developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/...

To Bluesky, Telegram, Signal, and every single software/app developer ever, from now until the end of time: No. I do NOT want to import my contacts. I will NEVER want to import my contacts. My contacts have my phone number so they can call/text me - that's it, full stop, the end.

Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away

#SalemMA late November roses

Happy unsubscribe from promo emails day

This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...

🔌 Adapter Pattern in .NET – Wrap external libraries & APIs to decouple code, survive breaking changes & make testing a breeze! 🛠️ #dotnet #designpatterns #adapterpattern #csharp www.ottorinobruni.com/adapter-patt...

I prefer an [error, data] over { error, data } for async operation results. Why? Because a tuple guarantees the order. Put the error first, which reminds the consumer to handle it. Object keys are order-insensitive and it's easy to forget to check for the "error" key.

To me, the whole idea of managing scope is antiquated and not particularly useful. It assumes a fixed up-front plan from which you can deviate. It assumes a schedule based on that up-front plan. However, scope defined upfront does not work, and it never has. 1/4

Another awesome Boston Code Camp yesterday is one for the books! Great turnout and a bunch of fabulous presentations. Many thanks to all the speakers, sponsors, organizers and attendees, and also to Microsoft for hosting.

Today I'm attending Boston Code Camp 39. I went to "Responsible AI and Content Safety" by Veronika Kolesnikova and next I'll go to "Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric" by John Miner #BCC39 www.bostoncodecamp.com/CC39/info

The wildest part of the South End isn’t the brownstones… it’s that Boston built something beautiful, loved it, and then spent decades making sure no one could ever do it again anywhere in Massachusetts.

<rant> A periodic reminder that Sprints, Backlogs, Daily Scrums, Scrum Boards, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Points, Velocity, PIs, etc., have NOTHING AT ALL to do with "Agile." Agility comes from working small, delivering frequently for feedback from actual customers, and adapting based on 1/3

⚠️ VERIFICATION SCAM WARNING - We will NEVER DM you about account verification. Messages from "Bluesky staff" or services offering to get your account verified through DMs are scams. Report and block immediately. 5/10

Boston Code Camp is coming up one week from today (Saturday Nov 22) - free registration is open thru Wednesday at 6pm. This is our 39th offering of a free developer's conference offering deep dives into the latest software development conference.https://buff.ly/f7l82Sz

You cannot outsource accountability.

✨ NOW on .NET Conf 2025 ✨ AI-Powered Development with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PST Join us LIVE ➡️ msft.it/63325tHU6H Follow the conversation: #dotNETConf #VisualStudio2026 #GitHubCopilot

Join us LIVE at #dotNetConf as we launch .NET 10 and VS2026! We are live with demos and details for the next three days! www.dotnetconf.net

✨ NOW on .NET Conf 2025 ✨ Welcome to .NET 10 & Visual Studio 2026 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM PST Join us LIVE ➡️ msft.it/63320tHoXo

Exciting news: I’m hosting a free 45-min Lightning Lesson with @emmabostian.bsky.social on how to land your first Engineering Manager role: ⚡️ Standout skills ⚡️ How to express interest ⚡️ What to expect early on 📅 Nov 20 @ 12PM ET 💻 Zoom 🔗 maven.com/p/1a81d0/lan...

Remember that MSW has dropped Jest support more than a year ago: github.com/mswjs/msw/b... We do not address any issues related to Jest/JSDOM. You have a far better chance reporting them to those tools instead. MSW relies on global, standard APIs. *That* is what we're supporting.

windows performance analyzer is a fantastic tool. i usually don't expect such high polish on a developer-oriented tool, but the team has certainly knocked it out of the park. cc @us.graphics :)

Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to. Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/ [Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]

“PowerShell was, is, and always will be about the user community… whatever tool makes you successful, that’s the tool you should use.” - @jsnover.com , inventor of PowerShell This mindset is what makes the PowerShell community so special. It’s never been about one tool or one way. 1/2

Last week, @github.com released the 2025 Octoverse report. Over 180 million developers contributed to more than a billion projects, and for the first time, TypeScript surpassed Python and JavaScript. Activity is at a record high, with more contributors, repos, and experimentation than ever.

so i finally updated my pc to windows 11, and poked around to test some things. If you want to disable RECALL all you gotta do is open CMD in admin mode and run this command: " dism /online /disable-feature /featurename:Recall " 💜

Registration is now open for Boston Code Camp, the legendary free developer's conference coming up on November 22 in Burlington, MA. Check out the site for a full list of sessions an speakers. Click the green "Attend!" button to register! buff.ly/0WvpuK6 - see you there!

Windows 11: "We noticed you turned off some of our features! Don't worry! We turned them back on!" Me: "No, what? Why wou --- " Windows 11: "Than you! Enjoy never knowing if this'll be the update that bricks your laptop while we prepare another one!" This is how I experience every update.