February 11th - Our favourite parts of .NET 10, with Ryan, Mark and David Register to attend in person at www.meetup.com/adelaide-dot... #dotnet #adelaide

Blogged: A new year has begun, and 5 years at @sixpivot.bsky.social. Plus new chooks and a cat! david.gardiner.net.au/2026/02/a-ne... #Adelaide #Cats #Chooks #HeatWave #SixPivot

Considering moving all my iCloud/Google Photos to Immich on a Synology. Anyone else done that? I've got every photo I've taken since 1998 and would prefer to not mess this up.

I didn't get down to the Port Elliot Bakery today, but my eldest daughter did 🎉 "Chocolate Biscoff" is the doughnut of the month for February. Ooh yeah 😀 #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #PortElliot

Registration is now open for @DDDNorth which is being held on Saturday 28th February 2026 @ Hull University Why not come along to this great free community event, there are over 20 sessions and great chance to network with like minded people. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ddd-north-...

Going for a top of 45°C (113°F) in #Adelaide today. Maybe just a degree or two cooler here in the hills. Our garden is festooned with old bedsheets and shade cloth, trying to protect our plants from the burning heat. Hiding under here is our mandarin tree 🙂 Stay cool everyone.

The Tour Down Under went behind our place yesterday, and unusually it came past again today! First King of the Mountain was there too. Stinking hot 43°C today so I don't envy the riders. Stay cool. #Adelaide #TourDownUnder #SouthAustralia

Today I got to celebrate the life of a friend's mum. What an amazing lady. Wonderful stories about her life and her legacy of her 4 daughters and their families. There's an 80 year old oak tree she planted in Ashton in the #Adelaide Hills that I must check out the next time I'm passing that way.

Perf impact of using LocalDB to produce a new isolated DB for every test method: github.com/SimonCropp/L...

Took a bit longer than expected, but Aspire Community Toolkit is finally updated to Aspire 13.1 - github.com/CommunityToo... Plus a bunch of new integrations and other improvements @aspire.dev #aspire #dotnet

With "dotnet project convert" we go from File-based app to project. But what if we start with a normal project, and then we want to convert it to a File-based app? I have created a small .NET tool for this: github.com/marcominerva.... And you can run it using dnx! #dotnet /cc @damianedwards.com

EntityFramework.OrderBy: Applies default ordering to EntityFramework queries based on fluent configuration. This ensures consistent query results and prevents non-deterministic ordering issues. github.com/SimonCropp/E...

Going to be a stinker today and tomorrow. #Summer is definitely here in #Adelaide! Saturday will cool down to the 20s but no rain on the forecast for the next week. Action your Bushfire Survival Plan (you do have one don't you?) and stay cool out there 🔥

A bit cooler today after a couple of hot ones. Quite windy meant a good tailwind riding with the #MudSweatAndGears mob to Semaphore. Was not looking forward to a headwind on the way home, but instead we followed the bike way along the Port #Adelaide train line to the city. First time going that way

Got to attend Clarendon Uniting Church this morning in the #AdelaideHills, as our eldest daughter was the guest preacher. It's a lovely old church with a small but friendly and welcoming congregation. #Adelaide

I added a dotnet tool for my Sql Server to Mermaid diagram project github.com/SimonCropp/D...

First time we've noticed that on the #Netflix ad-supported plan there are shows that we're excluded from watching. The problem with that is it prompts me to think whether it's time to pause our Netflix subscription and switch to another service for a while.

A Merry Christmas to all! Sang carols at Ashford hospital earlier in the week. At the Christmas eve church service last night the singing almost lifted the roof! And back again this morning for the Christmas day service. Now looking forward to catching up with extended family for lunch🙂

Probability of a white Christmas across Australia

“Mr Wong! I’ve lost all my traveller’s cheques!” American Express, 1986

Did a double take at the supermarket this morning... That is a clever and funny name 🤣 lardass.com.au

New reference article detailing lots of info about running C# file-based apps via `dotnet run` now available! Makes for great input to a coding agent when working on file-based apps. learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/...

i build a word diff launcher to help me snapshot test docx files github.com/SimonCropp/M...

I spent much of the Aspire 13.1 cycle fixing how container images get pushed: removing implicit registries, making image pushes first-class, and unlocking more parallelism. More extensibility, faster deploys. Heck yeah! 🔗: blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/15/aspire-image-push/ #aspire @aspire.dev

Did you know? You can run csc -langversion:? to see what language versions your C# compiler supports

Looks like the BoM have messed up the current temp data feed for my suburb (Southern Adelaide). It's more like 21°C outside at the moment! (If I switch location to "Adelaide" it shows 20°C) I wonder who they've mixed us up with? #Adelaide #Weather

What a year. 10 years celebrated, awards won, incredible platforms built with amazing clients. Now? Time for a break. Our team will be out of the office from 20 Dec 2025 to 4 Jan 2026.

Don't miss next weeks @integrationdownunder.com with @steefjan.bsky.social talking about Insights from 20+ Years in Enterprise Integration, for live link and more details go to: www.integrationdownunder.com sponsored by @sixpivot.bsky.social

It’s easy to jump into coding when building integrations — but skipping the groundwork leads to long-term headaches. In his talk, Emad Alashi explores the most common integration pitfalls and how to design solutions that truly meet business needs. Learn more 👇 www.dddmelbourne.com/agenda?sessi...

There are Mondays, and then there are "the computer doesn't recognize the dev SSD anymore" Mondays. Samsung 990 Pro 2TB. I tried pretty much everything I could think of, including moving it to a different M2 slot. Suggestions are welcome. The drive doesn't appear in the bios.

#dddbne2025 #ddd #dotnet

All the best for everyone going to @dddbrisbane.bsky.social today. I hope you have a great time and learn heaps too! #DDDBrisbane

Somebody asked me recently how Aspire auto-spins up the Azure Functions runtime when your AppHost includes a Functions project. I wrote about how it works and the .NET SDK feature that makes it possible. 🔗 : blog.safia.rocks/2025/12/02/a... #aspire @aspire.dev

You know it's true.

Blogged: Exploring the .NET boot process via host tracing andrewlock.net/exploring-th... In this post we enable host tracing and use that to understand how a .NET app boots up via the dotnet muxer, hostfxr, and hostpolicy.dll #dotnet

Blogged: DDD Adelaide 2025 On Saturday DDD Adelaide 2025 happened. A conference for all things relating to software development, but it's special because it's run by and for the community. I had a great time and I think I wasn't alone. david.gardiner.net.au/2025/11/ddd-... #DDDAdelaide

And DDD Adelaide 2025 is done. Full blog post coming, but for now I'm home relaxing after a full on day. I think it went well🙂 #DDDAdelaide

#DDDAdelaide 2025 is tomorrow 🎉 If you oopsie doopsied and didn't get your ticket, check out the waitlist just in case 👉 dddadelaide.com/tickets Thanks again to the community and the sponsors coming together to help construct what is going to be an excellent day tomorrow! See you there!

Got notified that my PR had been closed for terrascan, but it hadn't been merged, which was odd. Looking around the repo, and it looks like it is no longer maintained and they're archiving it github.com/tenable/terr... #terraform

🎟️Don't wait on securing your ticket, they are in very limited supply now. Like there will not be tickets tomorrow, probably wont be tickets this afternoon sort of limited. 👉 Secure your ticket: lnkd.in/f6V-eVv

🚨 FINAL CALL! 3 days to #DDDAdelaide 2025 ⏰ Sales close Friday 5:15 PM 🎟️ <10 tickets left! Your $60 ticket includes: ✅ 19 community-picked sessions ☕ Unlimited barista coffee 🍴 Full catering 🏆 Prize draws including a Sony Bluetooth speaker Don't miss out! dddadelaide.com/tickets

What were your fav songs of the year?! It's that time! I'm getting ready for "Tower of Song of the Year" noms! Tonight's Tower I'm chatting to JB Paterson, which will be fun too!! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Blogged: Aspire with Python, React, Rust and Node apps What's involved with integrating apps written with Python, Rust, Node and React/Vite with Aspire? Not that much as it turns out! david.gardiner.net.au/2025/11/aspi... #dotnet #aspire #rust #nodejs #pnpm #react #vite

Just standing in front of the bathroom mirror brushing my teeth tonight, and noticed I must have been wearing a name tag all day! I put it on at church this morning. Went shopping this arvo and then out to tea at a friend's place, and no one said anything! Sales staff were very helpful 😀

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

Hmm the Australian government MyID app updated on my phone and then lost all data. I now need to go through the whole "reconfirm my identity" thing again 🙁 I have a theory that the app forgot the data as for some reason it thinks my device name changed (which it hasn't since I set it up)

Thanks to all who came to my .NET Conf session, you can watch it again at www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hk... The presentation is available at dotnetconf2025.azurevoodoo.net & the sample github.com/azurevoodoo/... Cake 6.0 & Sdk launch blog post cakebuild.net/blog/2025/11... #dotnet #devops #csharp

Here's my presentation for #dotnetconf 2025 "Taking .NET out of .NET Aspire - working with non-.NET applications" www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAi... #dotnet #aspire #python #rust #nodejs #opentelemetry

🛸 Tomorrow at 12:00 am in Pacific Standard Time (UTC-08:00) / 9:00 am my time (CET) I'll be speaking @dotnet Conf about using .NET file-based apps for your GitHub Actions DevOps workflow, using C# instead of YAML, for a more joyful experience🚀 www.youtube.com/@dotnet/live #dotnet #devops #csharp