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.

that's me in the corner that's me in the float point losing my precision

🙌 .NET Conf 2025 in on its way... 👏 Join us November 11th for an action-packed keynote welcoming the release of .NET 10! See some of the amazing new things you can do with .NET 10, C# 14 and Visual Studio 2026. Save the date: msft.it/63329tDtKH

One of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps is coming to Boston. A 35MW system will use energy from the Charles River and deliver steam to heat more than 70 million square feet of buildings across Boston and Cambridge — hospitals, schools, homes, and businesses alike.

A friendly reminder that tonight we "fall back" one hour. While setting clocks that don't do it on their own, change your smoke detector & NOAA Weather Radio batteries too!

flexbox is the single best thing ever added to CSS. really just a masterpiece. one tool that solves every layout problem I've ever had

Are you ready for Hacktoberfest? We at the .NET Foundation are! Join us this October, contribute to open source, and earn a digital .NET Foundation certificate. For more information and the full rules, visit our website hubs.li/Q03JhjVs0

Python Coding Challenge - Question with Answer (01251025) Answer with Explanation: www.clcoding.com/2025/10/pyth...

Join our virtual event Thu Oct 30 at 6:00 PM (Boston time) where Vaibhav Gujral bit.ly/vaibhavgujral returns as speaker for @bostonazureai.org to teach us about the ever-so-useful Azure Container App service. Sign up and see full details here: bit.ly/4oFkwow #Azure #Containers

For those who submitted talks to Boston Code Camp - acceptance emails have been sent. Please check your email and remember to click the link to accept your talk. Full schedule and registration will be published in the coming week. Thanks!

🚀 Harper Hack ’25 kicks off tomorrow! Join us Oct 21 at 10 a.m. MT for the kickoff event 🎉 Compete in our 2-week virtual hackathon celebrating Harper’s open-source future — and win a trip to Tokyo (🎌 up to $5K value)! 👉 Sign up now: buff.ly/33cu3bW

The dream of safe C/C++ code is here. I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package: github.com/pizlonator/f... You can get drunk on the details here: fil-c.org

When creating PDFs, avoid using "Print to PDF." A screen reader user may still be able to access the text of PDFs created this way, but heading structure, alternative text, and any other tag structure will be lost. Using "Save As" or "Export" can preserve these tags.

On Tuesday, I saw Annie Lennox speak (and sing just a little) at Cooper Union. It was “a special evening celebrating the release of Annie Lennox: Retrospective,” a visual memoir by Lennox published by Rizzoli. This free event was standing room only in the Great Hall. cooper.edu/events-and-e... #NYC

⚡In .NET 9, even tiny arrays hit the heap, adding GC overhead. In .NET 10, if an array never leaves the method, it’s stack‑allocated. Result → ~2× faster, 0 allocations, less GC pressure. #dotnet #csharp https://roxeem.com/2025/09/30/what-net-10-gc-changes-mean-for-developers/

Just 2 more weeks to submit your session for Boston Code Camp, a free full day developer's conference this November 22nd in Burlington, MA. All software related topics are welcome. Please share your expertise and submit today! buff.ly/kSttiyK

Join @roberthurlbut.bsky.social and @harry.kimpel.com for #Boston .NET Architecture Group #Online meetup: Using .NET #Aspire eShop app to collect telemetry in OpenTelemetry on Wednesday, Oct 15 · 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM EDT #DOTNET www.meetup.com/boston-net-a...

#80sTop30 20 Forbidden Colours | Riuichi Sakamoto / David Sylvian | 1983 Single version of the theme tune to Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. That enchanting melody is one of the most beautiful I’ve ever heard and with added vocals from Mr Sylvian, it couldn’t fail to resonate. youtu.be/jsG2M66-_xc

The more I think about this the more I'm surprised it hasn't been "fixed" by the product team. I wrote a fix for this way back in 2017 that still gets a lot of traffic. I can't imagine the change is technically difficult, so there must be a reason the team hasn't done it. ardalis.com/set-cmd-or-p...

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

I'm teaching a bunch of my Fundamentals training for free next month! Sign up here: www.brentozar.com/archive/2025...