Anyone has any recommendations for interesting European conferences to submit some talks/workshops to?

The problem is not so much the artificial intelligence in itself as the natural stupidity it brings out in some people. And the dehumanising systems they propose to build around it.

This ASP.NET Core dev shell that @philco.bsky.social built on top of Spectre.Tui (as a demo), is pretty damn useful (and cool).

Submitted 2 security issues to NuGet and GitHub last year, finally heard back that they are low priority and not a big deal. I did manage to publish this package to NuGet. A bunch of unicode in there, but it looks genuine, right? Nobody would discover this via search because of the unicode.

Usar software livre tinha que ser obrigatório em TODOS os órgãos estatais brasileiros, também. Software proprietário tem que ser proibido no Estado, salvo raras exceções.

🤔 Random question for devs who work or have worked on backends with an underlying relational database. Do you know what a database transaction is? What about isolation levels? If you know about them, have you used them, or just know they're a thing?

📤🍰 OutboxKit build migrated from Cake Frosting to Cake SDK Didn't change much, as the build is rather simple, but still, a bit cleaner. github.com/YakShaveFx/o...

New one up on the interwebs 🕸️ This time, a non-technical post for technical folks: "On professionalism, professional pride, career and ambition" Maybe half-rant half-reflection, you tell me what you make of it 🙂 blog.codingmilitia.com/2026/01/21/o...

New one up on the interwebs 🕸️ This time, a non-technical post for technical folks: "On professionalism, professional pride, career and ambition" Maybe half-rant half-reflection, you tell me what you make of it 🙂 blog.codingmilitia.com/2026/01/21/o...

@martindotnet.bsky.social potentially stupid question: do you think there are situations where it makes sense to create a new root activity/span, disregarding the current parent?

Anyone feeling like doing some beta testing? 😅 I've been preparing a workshop around the topics of systems resiliency and chaos engineering. It would be great if someone is feeling like taking it for a spin, and provide feedback. #DotNet #CSharp #ChaosEngineering github.com/joaofbantune...

Anyone feeling like doing some beta testing? 😅 I've been preparing a workshop around the topics of systems resiliency and chaos engineering. It would be great if someone is feeling like taking it for a spin, and provide feedback. #DotNet #CSharp #ChaosEngineering github.com/joaofbantune...

Just spent a few hours to get a form using htmx and alpinejs working as I expected it to, because there seems to be a bug in htmx which causes the alpinejs class binding to not work after an htmx swap in fields which have ids 🤯 github.com/alpinejs/alp... github.com/bigskysoftwa...

When my colleagues and I do interviews, we don't ask LeetCode style questions and the sort. We do ask about: - Claims made in the resume/cv/linkedin/whatever - Common things we do on the day to day (related to development processes, building APIs, microservices, interacting with databases, etc)

@patriksvensson.se has been modernizing Spectre.Console, part of which is refactoring to use extension members. All was going fine until I tried to use it from a net8 app. The consumer app won't even compile unless I'm using the .net 9 SDK and even then I need to bump my language version up to 14.

Start considering moving your communities out of Discord now. Don’t wait for the enshittiffication to arrive, the clock is ticking. No one will listen to me, but let’s talk again later. www.reuters.com/busi...

Continuing preparing the chaos workshop, making use of the always reliable Spectre.Console to make things less boring 😅 #CSharp #DotNet #ChaosEngineering

Messing around with YARP (and its request and response transform extensibility), adding some naive logic to introduce some chaos into a system, by means of latency and errors. #CSharp #DotNet #ChaosEngineering

I'm preparing a workshop around microservices resiliency with some chaos engineering practices added into the mix 💥 Now the challenge is making it approachable, so folks don't find it impossibly hard and give up 😅

“Once it’s on the Internet it stays there forever” is no longer true. It’s increasingly hard, if not impossible, to find old information about niche topics using traditional search engines. We should al support open preservation projects around the world, they’re doing important public service.

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

Thought I was going mad trying to get my blog's code syntax highlighting to work properly. Turns out there is a bug in @1password.bsky.social browser extension inserting javascript and overriding user's styling More here: www.1password.community/discussions/...

I will never forget my old lead designer at Turbine, Chris Clay, who had a rule: Never spend more time talking about a design in a meeting than it would take to prototype it and see. I was in plenty of meetings where he suddenly slapped the table and invoked Clay's Law

This video is just incredible on different levels: - gathering the info for it, incredible work - the info gathered… incredibly disgusting youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88

The new Spectre.Console (and Spectre.Console.Cli) website is now live! 🎉 This is all courtesy of @philco.bsky.social, who has done an amazing job, just as he did with the previous website. spectreconsole.net

The level of idiocy the AI bros are operating at is insane. At the CWI of the University of Amsterdam they have worked for decades on Rascal, a tool for language transformation (which IS used in practice) and even they never pulled off this kind of project. Laugh: www.linkedin.com/posts/galenh...

Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable

Just saw a post by a "fractional cto" saying he led a technological migration, and one of the important changes he pushed for, was to create an abstraction for the payment provider, to make it easier to change in the future. Really? That's the claim to fame of a "fractional cto"?

I've been Windows free for some months now, but still had some issues to fix, particularly with my desktop. Took a while (years 🤐) but finally got some Linux distro to play along with my aging Nvidia GPU and 4K display (plus a 1080p one).

I'll say here what I left unstated in my @monktoberfest.com talk: AWS in particular is in a state of cultural collapse because they have done exactly this -- and their RTO mandate has served to decimate organizational trust.

Is it some sort of requirement that all "data projects" are a barely readable Python mess? Asking for a friend...

Jesus Christ, this age verification thing is going to be the most useless and annoying thing we’ve ever done to undermine privacy and democracy in the history of the world. I vote that all in favor are banned from the internet.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Here’s my post for Day 8: blog.bencope.land/f-in-product... #fsharp

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

rip bun www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...

I'm a simple man: I see a video on Omarchy while scrolling YouTube, I click to watch, click dislike, then go back to scrolling

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

there’s not a single person working in tech rn that hasn’t considered “what if I go live in a forest? What would be the logistics on that.”

Please let the new incarnation of the Steam Machine be successful. We need Windows to die a horrible death.

Seems like the original article was wrong. As things have been happening though, not so sure it won’t happen at some point anyway (even without them acknowledging it).

😩 www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

This is peak intellect. The CEO of OpenAI.

Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand. Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on. Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.

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Just released Cake v6.0.0! 🚀🍰 Few highlights ✨ .NET 10 & C# 14 support! ✨ Introducing Cake.Sdk - a new official runner that brings the .NET 10 "dotnet run app.cs" experience to Cake. ✨ Bug fixes, improvements. Full details: cakebuild.net/blog/2025/11... #dotnet #csharp #devops

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

“The detection order will not be part of the EU presidency’s new compromise proposal. It will remain voluntary for tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material.” Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, confirms today that Denmark is backing down and dropping mandatory scanning.