Children's books now added! They range from series to young adult, picture books to chapter books. Surely you have some kids in your life that you need to get hooked on the Universe... #ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭 www.asplibraryproject.com/blog/childre...

Yes! PR has been merged into Microsoft Agent Framework 😉 #mvpbuzz #gde

I recently did a talk on internet safety for parents/guardians and it was well received by those in the room. Its honestly the toughest talk I have researched and given. It might help you if you have kids or you are the local tech support for people with small humans. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgF5...

The call for papers for NDC Security ends tomorrow. Come do your talk in Oslo: ndcsecurity.com/call-for-pap...

EFF is fighting back against tyrants abusing tech by 🔨 Creating tools to protect your digital rights 📸 Pushing back against surveillance regimes 📣 Safeguarding your right to speak your mind online We just need your support: eff.org/power-up

Bad intensions and general censorship hidden behind child protection arguments? It depends... 😏 jain.rs/mauritius/ic... Sorry to say, you cannot differentiate between adult and child devices. Neither from households nor on SIM cards which are bought by adults anyways. 🙄

New solar system lecture on Venus, our nearest neighbor! All about why its surface is hell if it was a physical place, the runaway greenhouse effect, and more! (For those new, I'm teaching the solar system for non-majors and am putting the lectures online for free. Enjoy!) 🔭🧪🎢 youtu.be/q0f3mdlRBbw

SmartStudy: The Cross-Platform Rule-Based AI Coach for Students (Built with Uno Platform) 💡 The Inspiration As a software engineering student, exam weeks are chaotic. I have a calendar full of d... #devchallenge #unoplatform #dotnet #ai Origin | Interest | Match

For those following the news re: EU fining X for DSA violations, this thread explains that (despite how we may see the right and the U.S. gov frame things), it isn’t about “censorship” or even content moderation, but about X failing to follow laws about platform transparency and deception. A thread:

Last Saturday, I run a "magical" workshop on Gemini CLI at #DevFestPwani2025 organised by GDG Pwani in Mombasa, Kenya. From initial installation, basic settings, extensions with MCP servers and custom commands to integration with GitHub Actions, Nano Banana (Pro) and Jules agent.

Whew, honestly that is something outstanding (for me), and I didn't have Microsoft Agent Framework on my 2025 Bingo card... My Gemini SDK for .NET is used in the samples Agent Providers to integrate with Gemini models. github.com/microsoft/ag...

Thanks to DevFest engagements it's been a while since the last release of the Gemini SDK for .NET, and the release notes show it... github.com/mscraftsman/... Latest version 2.9.4 has been published earlier today. Lots of adds, changes and fixes. Thanks to new contributors!

Amazing! Free Code Signing for Open Source software signpath.org

EFF 🤝 @nostarchpress.bsky.social. Support the fight for privacy and free speech online when you grab this @humblebundle.com book bundle today! www.humblebundle.com/books/hacki...

Woop woop! Hello #DevFestPwani It's great to be back! 👋 Really excited about today's talks and activities. Happy to be here. Thanks to the amazing team of GDG Pwani 🙏

Jambo Nairobi! This time I got out of the airport and spent some hours in the surrounding, eh, mall to enjoy some brunch. Met with fellow GDE Sangalo. Now, onwards to Mombasa and #DevFestPwani on Saturday! 🤘

Aspire Community Toolkit v13 is now available. Main features are support for Aspire 13 and .NET 10, but a lot of small burn features are also included - github.com/CommunityToo... #aspire #dotnet

Ah, one of those days that Google's Jules Agent doesn't know anything about the GitHub repository it is initialized/assigned with... Or are there magic words to use in the prompt?

Awesome connection. NOT! Hey Mauritius Telecom, what's going on? That's a regular 30MBit/s business ADSL line. Measured between Flic en Flac and Port Louis. www.speedtest.net/result/18512... #speedtest

I keep having to re-figure this out on different machines, etc. so I wrote up the steps: How to Update .NET on WSL or Ubuntu #dotnet ardalis.com/how-to-updat...

itch.io/s/169146/mer... All Infrablack games are %100 free until December 25th. Happy holidays. #indiedev #gamedev #holidays #horror

FTW Google Antigravity! Using Google Discovery API to generate C# code. "State.cs now has 80+ consolidated enum values from properties like Artifact.state, CustomJob.state, EvaluationRun.state Mode.cs has values from both DynamicRetrievalConfig.mode and FunctionCallingConfig.mode"

Finally... Time to upgrade - not install ;-) Check out Google Antigravity.

Hm, looks like Google Jules Agent has a problem counting active sessions... Or at least the Pause and Resume feature does not work as expected. I got the limit notification after I paused, resumed and deleted an active assignment. Leaving no active session, or maybe two in place.

Thought about adding Aspire to an existing solution. Well, turns out it doesn't like custom installation paths... Maybe DOTNET_ROOT should be read? @davidfowl.com - any suggestions?

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Excited to share MoreSpeakers.com – a new platform that connects aspiring tech speakers with experienced mentors. Get help with abstracts, CFPs, and talk prep so more voices get on more stages. Check it out - morespeakers.com

Now for the tough session after the lunch break, it's Vidush Namah - .NET Aspire 9.5 - Build production-ready distributed solutions Eh, no, just Aspire 9.5 Oh well, scrap that... Aspire 13 🤘

After the introduction and a few refreshments, now it's time for Yash Busawon - Modern .NET 10 APIs — Performance, Middleware & Diagnostics What are the benefits you get out of the box.

Our last monthly meeting of the year by MSCC is happening today at Rubric Quality Consultants. Together with the NUGM it's all about NET 10. Mervyn Manilall - .Net for the rest of us What's in for non-Net developers?

Need a bit of extra AI computing power? Spending the whole day in @vscode.dev? Well, then it's time to add the newly announced @googlecolab.bsky.social extension and run your notebooks from your favourite editor. developers.googleblog.com/en/google-co... Really convenient and with GPU options.

Hello @jetbrains Rider, nice that you ship latest version for NET 10. I'm really excited about it. It's less fun that now a number of Plugins aren't working anymore. Like JSON Sorter. And again, the whole UI configuration and placement of tools has been thrown out. Sync is on.

Hmm, that's kind of unexpected! Jules Agent comes without pre-installed gcloud SDK. Kind of weird. Time to extend my start Script-Fu, and have it installed.

Was watching the Valve teaser for the new Steam hardware. Loving it! Finally, we are getting GameCube 2 / Ouya 2 and Stadia 2.0 And yes, "Steam Cube" would have been a better name.

While watching the keynotes of .NET conference and the launch of .NET 10.0 I added targetting to the Gemini SDK for .NET. github.com/mscraftsman/... Grab it while it's hot and enjoy easy integration of Gemini API into your apps. #gde #mvpbuzz #dotnet

The actual use of File Search tool after artifacts have been ingested into a File Search Store.

Last week, the File Search Tool in Gemini API has been introduced. Today, release v2.9.0 has been published! blog.google/technology/d... Due to contractual work creating an offline system using Ollama, Gemma3, EmbeddingGemma and ShieldGemma I couldn't spent much time on the SDK.

Well, well... even Gemini 2.5 Pro agrees with me 🙂 So, what's the constraint or thought process @ Google DeepMind to dismiss `application/rtf` and use `text/rtf` only? Really curious. That issue affects both Files API and File Search Stores API of Gemini.

Nice move @GoogleDeepMind to increase the output token limit of Nano Banana models. Thanks!

The Godot 2025 showreel is out! We're so grateful for every submission, vote, and support from our community 💙 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZwE...

Planning to build your next big project? The #GoogleDeveloperProgram gives you essential resources, including credits to build with Google Cloud, to help you prototype, test, and scale your next project. 🤩 Sign up for the program to start building → goo.gle/3LcAkAx

Hmm, really interesting. Last week, I started to implement an off-line, read: not cloud-based, RAG system for a customer. Initially I went for split services for ingestion and retrieval, now I might add client-side upload and store management. 🤔😏 ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...

Well, well, the past days were fun. Wrote an Ollama-based RAG system in C# using MEAI, #Gemma3 and Nomic which runs completely offline. Provide your documents (PDF, docx, xlsx, text, md, etc) and then ask about their contents. Thanks to @gregorbiswanger.bsky.social for the facade.

Big things are coming—.NET Conf 2025 is almost here! 🎊 ⭐ Join the C# design team as they reveal the exciting new features coming in C# 14 and beyond. ⭐ Discover language enhancements that improve code clarity and boost productivity. Save the date: msft.it/63327tD0kJ #dotNETConf

✨New release v2.8.21 of the Gemini SDK for .NET is available. Now, you can use M.E.AI. to generate images and other improvements. github.com/mscraftsman/... #gde #mvpbuzz

.NET Aspire ❌ Aspire ✅🤌🏼 we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫 join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃

Get over to Reddit and post the issues you need fixed! Upvote the other comments. While we’ve had some great responses, I was expecting more feedback. You’ve got until the end of Wednesday!

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What a wonderful delivery today. Received the GDE pins of the past years and the 5 years award pin. Honoured to be part of this esteemed global community and I'm looking forward to many more years. Thank you! #GDEgiftfromGoogle #gdeofficial

Hey @github.com - How can I get rid off GitHub notifications of repositories that do not exist anymore? Already tried UI, gh and cURL commands...