Aspire Conf - March 23, 2026 aspire.dev/aspireconf/ #aspire #dotnet

Talking about whether AI can replace software developers is the same as talking about whether AI can replace artists, salesmen, or otherwise. There is no replacement for human expression. There is no replacement for human connection.

Going to be a little sad seeing her in my yearly rewatches of Home Alone.

Volunteering at Pinewood Derby for my Girl Scout troop + service unit in Ankeny today - and of course I’m still on the computer 😛. It’s incredible what a few volunteers and some elbow grease can pull off. Thanks to everyone who showed up early, hauled tracks, and made it a great day for the kids. 🙌

This is the guy that thinks he’s the aryan race.

Now the AI slop is disrupting retail gaming - or really anyone who needs a computer. www.eurogamer.net/amd-and-nvid...

A while ago, I wrote about how to automatically deploy a passwordless Azure SQL database server using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and Azure Pipelines. Hot off the press, here’s a similar post for Postgres - using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and GitHub Actions! www.bensampica.com/post/postgre...

Azure AI Foundry is a hot mess.

It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...

on type safety

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"

Me irl

Also. github.com/Raphire/Win1...

There’s been some great improvements on Minimal APIs support for binding complex objects with FromForm. Any planned support for binding arrays like int[] to respect initialization defaults like an empty array instead. #dotnetconf

I love Aspire but #dotnetconf why did aspire jump from 9.x to 13.x?

Odd to see #dotnet Aspire jump from 9.5.2 to 13.0.0… what’s up with that?

.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team! Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...

There are 8 whole people in the entire world who are shocked by this development.

"The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜 #PurpleFriday #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #dahlia

.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 🎃

Unbelievable times that this is a serious post.

This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it. I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other. youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...

Evergreen.

Can we get Visual Studio for Mac back? Please?! C# dev kit and Rider miss the mark for me.

Leadership is a characteristic of an individual. It is NOT a position to which somebody can be appointed.

Trying to get the Raspberry Pi GPIO & I2C capabilities to work inside a container has been a “fun” exercise that I’m still failing at. If youre reading this and have expertise or an example, hit me up PLZ 😭.

Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on. www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming

This is the juice

With .NET aspire is there a way to force sub-dependencies of containers to only startup when their parents are started? For example, the Aspire Azure Service Bus container requires azure-sql-edge internally. When I place WithExplicitStart on the ServiceBus resource, the edge container still starts.

nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out. No more api keys needed to publish from your release process. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...

I miss when social media (and the internet in general) had content that its creators thought was actually interesting. The trying-to-grab-attention low-effort content just to game algorithms is so tiring.

Do This. Not This. Or ... Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.

No slide decks. No status meetings. No “stories.” And somehow, working software (and hardware) still happened.

Trust Day 1/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.

There’s many days that are stuffed full of joy in my life recently. It reminds me of a quote by Andy Bernard from The Office - “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them”. I wish these good days to never end.

Gatekeeping development behind using AI is the most backward-ass thing I’ve seen in a while. GitHub’s CEO should be ashamed and fired for such a stance. Simply put, software development is for anyone who has a computer and a curiosity to create.

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

Are there any examples of worker services with #dotnet #aspire? I’m hoping to run the worker service multiple times thru the dashboard with different runtime or configuration parameters. I have a modular monolith worker service so the parameters completely change the behavior.

🎉 A new version of Aspire just shipped, 9.4 and it's one of the biggest releases yet. Very proud of what the team was able to accomplish. 📣 Blog post - devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou... 📝 What's new - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... #dotnet #aspire

.NET 10 Preview 6 now available #dotNET www.elevenforum.com/t/net-10-pre...

If you’re looking for your next self-improvement book to read, perhaps you might be interested in Obliquity. Highly recommend! a.co/d/hPiS8lk

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Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

💰🫩😤

Okay how did Ellie end up on an island a mile away instead of back on the mainland in #TLOU season 2 finale? My wife and I couldn’t get over it lol. The episode was kind of.. meh?!

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits all the emotions with the music.

Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??