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.

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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??

One can choose to do science or choose to do politics. If you choose science then you speak what you think is true, regardless of how cynical political actors may use it. That’s the job. One can also do politics, but then you’ve given up doing science. (Yes yes, Weber said it better)

We’re about to take C# to the next level! #dotnet #csharp

C# single file scripts like Python/Powershell is being teased by @davidfowl.com. A potential future without yaml scripts and tf/bicep files? Yes please all c# no take backsies.

I'll be the broken record: Copy pasting blindly from your favorite LLM ain't great for learning. Juniors often trust AI-generated answers too quickly, which can cut out a lot of the actual learning opportunity! The part where you need to: - Make mistakes - Get stuck - Then get unstuck.

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

A good team will inevitably be destroyed by bad management.

The blue check marks are so nice to see here. Finally early 2010s Twitter is back.

#dotnetconf Does the GitHub Copilot Upgrade Assistant consider licensing when upgrading packages?

NuGet restore has been rewritten, resulting in up to 16 times faster build time!💥🚀 Read more about the technical details and the NuGet team's process of building the new algorithm in this blog post: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/rewri...

The amount of scummy mail you get when you register any business is insane. At the VERY bottom of this paper does it say that this is actually spam. The envelope looked very official too.

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Here’s part 2 of 2 on testing and local development with .NET projects without dockerfiles - this time with .NET Aspire and TUnit. From setting up your project to adding EF Core and creating a test base, it’s all there. Plus, a handy GitHub workflow is included. www.bensampica.com/post/aspiret...

Aspire 9.2 new dashboard features, day 11: 'WithHttpCommand' is now a first-class citizen, allowing you to invoke HTTP endpoints from the dashboard 🌏 The example below demonstrates a command that calls the '/reset-db' endpoint on a resource. #dotnet #aspire

Reverse the tariffs and tax the billionaires

I wrote a short post on using Testcontainers in .NET: www.bensampica.com/post/testcon... If you’re doing tests and still relying on mocks or manual setup, this is worth a look. It lets you spin up SQL Server, Azure Storage, CosmosDb, etc. in containers during your test runs or during local dev.

Anyway, he just lost.

The fourth episode of the Wheel of Time Season 3 was incredible. I won’t spoil anything but the portrayal of Rand going to Rhuidean was incredible!!

I'm super happy with the API that we landed on for input validation support in minimal APIs. Sample app + implementation overview is up at github.com/captainsafia....

Next Thursday we're excited to host @softwareascraft.com! Please join us for Virtual .NET@Night: Focus, Flow, and Cold Coffee: ADHD-Driven Dev Practice www.meetup.com/iadnug/event...

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Just blogged: Introducing AZDOI, a .NET tool designed to document Azure DevOps organizations by generating Markdown files. This tool helps keep track of your projects and repositories. Read more: www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2... #DevOps #Azure #DotNet #DevOpsDocs