I still remember the first time I ran a .NET on Lambda. I’d convinced myself that keeping memory low would keep costs in check. That first call was so slow I wondered if AWS had just dropped my request. In this video, I tear down the common myth that .NET on Lambda is 'slow'. youtu.be/roIIujtLaQ4

Safety is only relevant if there is a human to read the code. Code not mediated by humans is definitionally unsafe. If someone really believes they can have the machine generate code unattended, you might as well use assembler.

Well it was trained on all digitized human knowledge, so if you want to look at it like that, the embodied carbon consumption of a foundation model should also include the consumption of every person that ever posted something online. Checkmate you misanthropic asshole

Yeah this is fucked up. And these are the people we want to hand over all our 'thinking' too.

If you believe the hype about AI, and you think you never need to read code again... Why would you not write everything in Rust? An interesting conversation I had with someone at RustNation UK this week. With it's performance, low resource usage and safety it seems the obvious choice... #rust

lol, AWS vibe coded itself an outage www.ft.com/content/00c2...

My friends, if Amazon, with all its governance and change control, is getting these kinds of outcomes, (respectfully) you have no chance.

Tomorrow's premium: The Hater's Guide To Anthropic, a company burning $8 to $13 for every dollar it makes selling Claude Code and burning billions of dollars a year. It needs $283bn to survive the next 3 years. Here's $10 off annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

hello, world! The Rust Foundation is excited to join you on this new (to us!) platform. We plan to exclusively share social media content here, Mastodon, & LinkedIn for the foreseeable future. You can also follow @rustconf.com — they'll have lots of important news to share about #rustconf soon 🦀

⚠️ Deprecation warning! AWS App Runner is deprecated and will stop accepting new customers from April 1, 2026. #AWS #Containers Read the full article:

I've used the Zettelkasten system for knowledge organisation for years. I've tried it in Obsidian, Notion and Affine. None quite fit my workflow. A self hosted knowledge management system, with semantic search, embeddings, note linking. github.com/jeastham1993...

Slop is the perfect word to describe the low-quality, high-volume, AI-generated content being thrown around. If you don't have time to write it, I don't have time to read it.

Reading some fascinating books on economics and growth at the moment 🤯

Personally, I find the usage of AI in a corporate setting regularly enables the worst behaviors to be amplified and rewarded. A lot of people care about output vs quality or correctness. And at scale, producing incorrect things is disastrous network effects.

The photographers at @ndcconferences.com always do such a FANTASTIC job!

Love seeing all the tools being built to top of the ATProtocol 👌

Been burned by “classic” AWS Lambda structure in .NET—700 lines in one file, validation, business logic, and DynamoDB calls all jammed together. Debugging or unit testing that? Nightmare fuel. Thankfully, I've got the video just for you. #serverless #dotnet youtu.be/_EIndrP94Lw

Coming up at Dot Net North, Joshua Crowe on building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#. Small, high-leverage internal tools with workflow logic, a state machine, type-safe command parsing and routing. If you're tired of messy scripts, this one's worth a look. 🛠️

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

I'm the first to be critical of AI, and I'm hugely cynical of it taking all software development jobs. That, alongside the huge environmental and ethical concerns. But, I have to admit. This last week I've been using a different workflow: 🧵

"Our findings suggest that AI-enhanced productivity is not a shortcut to competence and AI assistance should be carefully adopted into workflows to preserve skill formation – particularly in safety-critical domains........" No shit! Report was also sponsored by Anthropic arxiv.org/html/2601.20...

I always find it nerve wracking giving a brand new talk. When you get a some feedback after a talk that is 'I've been to a lot of conferences over the years and there are only 2 or 3 that really resonate. This talk is straight on that list" Sample size of one, but great to hear non the less.

Very excited to be bringing a brand new talk to NDC London later today. In it, you'll learn about some fundamental patterns of system design. Whatever 'style' of system you're building. From a monolith to a chaos inducing non-deterministic agent. I hope to see you there! #systemdesign

Ever tried deploying a .NET Web API with almost the same DX as building in ASP.NET, but straight into AWS Lambda? Lambda Annotations turns your methods into HTTP endpoints w/ just a few attributes, DI still works, and w/ Aspire + the AWS emulator, local dev feels pretty native. youtu.be/va100QlU2Vs

The overarching theme was that there’s a change happening in where human effort happens. The hard part used to be building. Now it’s knowing what you want AI to build, and which tools and systems will help you get there. Quote from a recent AI newsletter. Hard disagree from me....

Thrilled to announce chapter 09 of the Rust Lambda book. In this one, we cover all things observability. If you're struggling to really understand your serverless applications, this one's the one for you. @loige.co 👀 #serverless #rust #rustlang rust-lambda.com

Just finished watching Prey, big fan. Great entry to the Predator series. Damn does that lady kick ass.

"AI agents are amazing and a huge productivity boost. They are also massive slop machines if you turn off your brain and let go completely." lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

James Eastham and my latest video on software dev is up! We try to distill down when it makes sense and when not to microservice, hopefully without alienating too many folks. Have a listen and let us know what you think!

It's a great debate in modern software, do you need microservices? Or will a monolith be enough for what you need. In the latest video in our modern software engineering series @scottgerring.com and me discuss exactly this. youtu.be/zUhrBYH0zyw #softwareengineering #software #development

Is this album as close to the perfect rap album as it comes?

This is an excellent website. Thanks for sharing @scottgerring.com european-alternatives.eu/categories

Well I know what I'm trying out next week. I've got a new .NET and Lambda series in the works as well so this is perfect timing #serverless #dotnet aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

If now is the time of AI, I want a personal AI running on my personal cloud. There is zero reason for us to all become subservient clients to American corporations. The model can change. 100% this. Great post.

2026 was the best ❤️

I've watched The Grinch (Jim Carrey) and Elf in the last two nights. Two of my favourite Christmas films. Somehow, the CGI is 'better' than it was however many years ago. Not an anti AI post, but are we getting too digital?

chris evans shouts "no! i won't go back, you can't make me. i said i was out!" from all around him, a disembodied voice booms ɪᴛ ɪꜱ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴄɪꜱɪᴏɴ ɴᴏ ʟᴏɴɢᴇʀ evans screams and clutches at his arm where his mickey mouse tattoo suddenly burns. ʏᴏᴜ ᴀᴄᴄᴇᴘᴛᴇᴅ ᴍʏ ʙʀᴀɴᴅ ɪɴ ᴇxᴄʜᴀɴɢᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴍᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟɪᴛʏ

Study of over twenty five million people over almost four years finds that COVID vaccines reduced COVID deaths by 74% and increased all-cause deaths by zero. I don’t know how much clearer it can get than that. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

"Coding is no longer the bottleneck". So what you're saying is that NOTHING HAS CHANGED.

@jameseastham.co.uk and I are back again talking about software engineering! This time, we dive into API-first design - what it's good for, and how you can get started with it. Let us know what you think! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lE-R...

And nobody was shocked... arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

My yearly retrospective and planning time is I think one of the most impactful things I've started doing over the last few years. What went well, what didn't, and thinking about thematic ideas for the year 🔥

Building event-driven systems? Let's chat metrics! In this video, I break down the essential ones you need to care about if you're building event-driven systems. Bonus tip, I'll also show you the simplest way to generate them from your exisiting telemetry. youtu.be/CvgvXzLLZ2Y

I'm giving some IT training to the staff at my local foodbank tomorrow and want to demonstrate to them the pitfalls of AI. Does anyone have any good examples of prompts or things to ask that almost force a hallucination, or that demonstrate the downsides?

Something I've been thinking about over the last 24 hours, is a potential outcome of AI generated coding a split in the 'types' of software built. One being the hyperscale, big, gnarly systems that are complex and take teams of people to operate and understand. Much like software today. Two...

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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Disney selling out to OpenAI makes me very very sad

My grandkids will get to experience the 2nd coming of on-paper, hand drawn animation For the next 20 years we’ll be dealing with companies maximizing existing IP in the lowest budget ways possible deadline.com/2025/12/disn...

New course alert 🎉 It's taken me over 2 years of creating courses to finally go back to my roots. Want to learn how to build .NET apps on #AWS? This is the course for you. In it, you'll learn about the core services you need to care about to build on AWS. #dotnet dometrain.com/course/getti...