"Running dotnet microservices in Aspire without a project reference – Tim Abell" 0x5.uk/2025/11/11/r... #dotnet #aspire

If you like #RustLang AND gitopolis (the git repo manager), 👉 you can now `cargo install gitopolis` 🦀🎁🎉 crates.io/crates/gitop...

Release v1.12.0 of gitopolis hot on the heels of v1.11.0 github.com/timabell/git... Major feature addition is boolean AND/OR combining of tags for filtering. I think this is going to be very useful.

A little story of an imaginary team of devs using Gitopolis to manage multiple Git repositories, based on my actual experiences in real teams. 0x5.uk/2025/10/25/u... Can you relate to the challenges? How do you solve the hassles of all those microservice repos?

Gitopolis v1.11.0 now sorts repos and tags (case insensitive). This will affect the config sorting but mean it's more stable for diff and merge longer term github.com/rustworkshop...

rerun.io/blog/why-rust By @ernerfeldt.bsky.social Fab. 😍🦀

Sweden has the worlds fastest church ✌️ www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9...

Rerun keeps growing! I’m so happy we started this thing, and that we’re building in the open, in Rust 🤘

Huge release of disk-hog-backup - v0.3.2 out now - Real-time stats - Trust modified time (massive speed boost) - Detailed pipeline stats - Split reading from hashing internally - Dependency updates (of course) github.com/timabell/dis...

FakeComsosDb (dotnet) now has automatic release notes on github releases, made with cliff and semantic commits, because it turns out that nuget release notes support is garbage. github.com/timabell/Fak... #dotnet #CosmosDB

Progress update 2025-09-14 - bullet editing & binary releases · timabell/markdown-neuraxis - github.com/timabell/mar...

The Rust Workshop Podcast: "AI Summary of This Week In Rust 615" 🦀 If like me you don't have time to read this week in rust every week then grab a quick summary here in podcast form. 🎙️ share.transistor.fm/s/7dbb4681 #RustLang #AI

If you need to analyse lots of git repos I've shipped a handy new feature: Release v1.6.0 · rustworkshop/gitopolis "Add --oneline argument to exec to allow post-processing output" github.com/rustworkshop...

Woo, my little copy-link extension for Firefox is published. Enjoy! addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/androi...

First Direct is offering £175 for account switches! That's not nothing! And they have great customer service. What's not to like. (No I'm not being paid for this, it's just an offer worth sharing.) www.firstdirect.com/banking/curr...

AI SPOTTING www.youtube.com/watch?v=w15i...

TEDx Talk - Tech promised everything, but did it deliver? youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...

Finally tried Claude Code with Claude Sonnet 4 - really liking the CLI, it's slick. For a CLI addict & touch-typist like me it really feels like flow. Built a tiny firefox add-on in about 2 hours. github.com/timabell/fir... Just waiting for it to be approved in the addon store now.

Drowning in the flood of AI coding tools? We explored Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, and more — then mapped the landscape with a 4-level mental model to make sense of it all. New Software Should Be Free episode: share.transistor.fm/s/3f16590a

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Software Should be Free: AI coding tool landscape in July 2025 with Tim + David. Have a listen:

TMNT was right… 🐢 🐈‍⬛

** Four must-read books for tech leaders ** When I talk to the project leadership it often transpires that they are unaware of the literature created off the back of many decades of experience, & research into what works and what doesn't in software delivery. 0x5.uk/2025/07/15/m...

Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard. I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.

Many times over the years someone has come to me: [P] keeps complaining about [Q]! I’ve argued with them, but they won’t stop. How do I convince them? My first question is always: Is [P] right? (1/7)

I feel seen

“Ogg Vorbis” is a beautiful baby girl’s name

#supernote daily planner made by chatgpt. Pretty cool that you can ask chatgpt to make pngs of an exact pixel size to fit the device (makes pdfs too which is how this started)

me: what did i come into this room to get 🧠: i dunno me: when’s my best friend’s birthday 🧠: i dunno me: what year did Toy Story come out 🧠: 1995

@danidonovan.com I've turned some of the worksheets from the anti-planner pdf into background templates for my e-ink tablet (supernote) so I can scribble on them repeatedly. Win. #ProactiveProcrastination

In the name of being all-in on #RustLang, and to escape the increasingly slow build times I've converted my blog from jekyll/github-pages to zola/netlify github.com/timabell/0x5... Much better build & deploy times

"Pivot to AI: Hallucinations worsen as the money runs out" #AI #LLM #Bubble #Pop! davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2...

Ashley Ogawa Clarke wrote a story for Vogue last year about fashion brands incorporating fan-powered tech into their clothes, which is already popular with Japanese laborers. I was skeptical of the tech, but this video is pretty convincing. IG keeganhasegawa

That video made it seem like we're mere months from agents versus there being multiple papers saying that they collapse in multi-step scenarios. LLMs are terrible at this! If your answer is "well they'll try anyway" - why do you think Apple delayed the new Siri? Because it isn't even functional

The #NoMouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls? nomouse.org

For people who don't use screen readers, it can be difficult to understand how screen readers work. If you're interested in learning how people use screen readers, check out this demo from Marc Sutton and The University of California San Francisco. youtu.be/dEbl5jvLKGQ

There has been zero days since the latest slop

If I’m knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *need* an LLM. If I’m not knowledgeable on a subject I don’t *trust* an LLM.

This right here is why I only work for me now. They might pay me for a service, but I sure as hell do not work for anyone but myself Succeeding makes that type of corporate seat filler profoundly unhappy, and that’s an excellent bonus

Anthropic let Claude run a vending machine business at their HQ. People tricked it into buying a bunch of tungsten steel cubes that it sold at a loss. www.anthropic.com/research/pro...

People ask why I'm interested in #RustLang My markdown webserver completed an entire page render in LESS THAN ONE MILLISECOND 🤯🦀 That's the efficiency I was after. You know you're onto something when the dashboard shows response times in microseconds! Code is high-level, tidy & readable.

#TIL there's an entire w3 specification for distributed tracing HTTP headers www.w3.org/TR/trace-con... #OpenTelemetry

"many of these gains are a mirage. A recent study measuring real developer output found “no significant gains” from using an AI assistant" The Hidden Cost of Overusing AI Coding Tools: Tech Debt in Sheep’s Clothing Just published by yours truly #ai #coding 0x5.uk/2025/06/25/a...

I'm sick of the hype and chaos around AI coding. My experience of it has been interesting but largely disappointing. I can't shake the feeling that everyone that claims huge productivity gains on non-trivial projects is just producing huge tech debt.

I will not install a beta operating system on my main computing device I will not install a beta operating system on my main computing device I will not install a beta operating system on my main computing device

Password expiration policies are not a panacea. From a 2018 article ( dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5... ) "Our findings suggest that forced password expiration might not have some of the negative effects that were feared nor positive ones that were hoped for." #nuancesighting

oh god the rust peeps gonna be insufferable this week

I remember the time that off shoring was going to take all the development jobs in the country. I remember the time that no-code tools where going to replace most of the development jobs in the country. I remember the time that AI was going to take all the development jobs in the country. 🤷‍♂️

Gave a lightning talk at Dotnet Oxford #meetup this evening "A quick intro to Rust 🦀 for C# devs" Seemed well received. Thanks Dan for hosting 🙌 Slides: deck.0x5.uk/intro-to-rus... #RustLang #dotnet

www.dsebastien.net/stop-tweakin... Great article by @dsebastien.net