Of course I had Higgins on the bench. 😔

Great time at the Louisville .NET meetup on Thursday evening talking about Azure Functions, .NET Aspire, and AI agent workflows. #Azure #Aspire #AzureFunctions #AI

I’m looking forward to speaking about “Agentic Workflows with Azure Functions and Friends” at the Louisville .NET Meetup on Oct. 16th.

“AI Agent” is (has?) become the new “microservice”

I love being able to set up my Azure Durable Functions with .NET Aspire and Azure Durable Task Scheduler (using local container). Greatly simplifies the local dev cycle.

My team has been fighting a JavaScript date off-by-one issue lately. Enter 2025-10-01, parse and get 2025-09-30. An engineer on the team figured out a solution by setting a reference date. Happy there is a solution, but still find it somewhat confusing. Dates are a PITA…..still.

Nice!

Rolling out to VS Code now: Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced model for coding. Let us know what you think! github.blog/changelog/20...

Bengals…hot garbage. So hard to be a Bengals fan. I remember the promise and collapse of the Carson Palmer era, and feel that I’m witnessing history repeat itself.

Supercharge your Copilot experience in Visual Studio! Learn how to guide AI with Prompt Files for task-specific help and Instruction Files for repo-wide standards. Whether you're building in C# or #ASPNET, this is a must-read for #dotNET devs: msft.it/63320sW4yQ#ASPNET#dotNET#GitHubCopilot

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 6: Traces pages now have a type filter 🔎 - a quick way to find traces and spans for the selected operation type. For example, choose Messaging 📬 to see only traces from your app that interact with RabbitMQ.

This could be neat. Gotta give it a try! #GitHub #Teams devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft36...

Looking forward to talking today about coding smarter with GitHub Copilot. Got the gear! #GitHub #Copilot

The latest VS Code release brings auto model selection (preview) - a way to have the best available model picked for you, based on current capacity and performance. Currently being rolled out to all GitHub Copilot users in VS Code, starting with individuals - learn more: aka.ms/VSCode/AutoM...

Performance Improvements in .NET 10 by Stephen Toub. "..hundreds of the small but meaningful and compounding performance improvements.." msft.it/63324siAmn

GitHub Copilot coding agent 101: Getting started with agentic workflows on GitHub buff.ly/N0PEVwr #githubcopilot #github #ai #aiagents #programming

Performance Improvements in .NET 10 by Stephen Toub | .NET Blog ift.tt/BroyIWM #dotnet #performance #dotnet10

It's the last chance to register for this Thursday's Chicago Cloud Computing Meetup with the "notorious hacker" @jaysonstreet.bsky.social. For more details and registration links, check out my post. ericboyd.com/events/chica...

If you missed my "Agentic Workflows with Azure Functions and Friends" session at @CONDG last week, you can find the recording at www.youtube.com/live/ovw0YM.... #AzureFunctions #Azure #AI

GO BUCKS!!!

I had a blast delivering my “Agentic Workflows with Azure Functions and Friends” talk at the Central Ohio .NET Group on Thursday evening! Good turnout. Great questions and discussion!! @AzureFunctions #Azure

Had a great time with the family tonight at the Nate Bargatze show!

I’m looking forward to giving the new preview for BYO Remote MCP Server on Azure Functions a try. #Azure #AzureFunctions

Discover essential Copilot chat prompts that can enhance your .NET development experience. Streamline your workflow and improve collaboration with these practical tips.#dotnet#ai#copilot https://isaacl.dev/gpw

We just launched VS Code Insiders Podcast - the official podcast from the VS Code team! Join us as we sit down with the developers, product managers, and community contributors shaping the open source AI code editor. First episode on GPT-5 out now! www.vscodepodcast.com

💥 Tired of fragile magic strings in your .NET Aspire projects? Check out my latest blog post where I walk you through how to remove them using shared constants for more maintainable code! Learn more 👉 www.michaelscollier.com/aspire-secr... #dotnet #Aspire #CSharp

Fun coding on Thursday evening. Learning more about setting up an MCP server, Semantic Kernel agents, NET Aspire and Durable Functions. @AzureFunctions @dot.net #AI #AzureFunctions

🤖🧱 In case you missed it, The @codemash.bsky.social Call for Sponsors is open! We know we can't have the event without your support so are enhancing the sponsorship experience and offering new options. Check out the sponsor prospectus. #CodeMash events.codemash.org/2026CodeMash...

I was looking to do something w/ Aspire tonight & couldn’t figure it out. A few related old issues in the GitHub repo, but nothing solid. Decided to have a look at the NEW Aspire Discord, and boom, noticed 9.4 just dropped and seems to have the feature I was looking for! #Aspire

Just finished Happy Gilmore 2. Loved it!

When you strip away humanity

I've got 3 local tech user group sessions lined up for the next month. I'm scheduled to talk about Azure Durable Functions and agentic workflows. Should be fun! Join me!! #AzureFunctions www.michaelscollier.com/user-groups...

I’ve been testing out a Surface Copilot+ PC (Snapdragon X Elite) for development. It’s a smooth ride, mostly. 🛠️ ARM64 + Docker + Azure Functions = Some surprises Blog post with all the details: 👉 www.michaelscollier.com/development... #Azure #ARM64 #DevExperience #SurfaceLaptop

Join me at the Central Ohio .NET Developer group this Thursday, July 24th for a lightning talk on getting started with Azure Durable Task Scheduler. www.meetup.com/central-ohi... #Azure #AzureFunctions

Setting up #AzureFunctions Flex Consumption to play with Durable Task Scheduler. My orchestration is stuck in "Pending". ARRRG . . . DTS doesn't run Flex yet. :( #DurableFunctions learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure...

So good! #Superman

Hey folks! I’m open to contract work, anything #dotnet. If you need help, feel free to reach out!

Looking forward to the @coazureug presentation on Wednesday by @shawnewallace.com. Join us! Join me at How API Gateways and Event Streams work together meetu.ps/e/P1RYq/1ND... #Azure

I don’t care how many times I’ve seen Avengers:Endgame. If it’s on TV, I’m watching the final battle scene.

Looking forward to reading this new book by my friend

Great lunch today with a longtime friend talking about #Azure, #AI, and agents.

First day back at work after a weeklong vacation!

Eric Boyd will be speaking at the next meeting of the Chicago Cloud Computing User Group! Come to the Aon Center July 8 to hear his presentation: "Harnessing the Power of Asynchronous Messaging and Eventing for Distributed Systems"! www.meetup.com/the-chicago-...

Friday was a fun day of working with my team to learn more about a customer problem and start ideation on solutions.

I had a great time on Wednesday evening at the Azure Columbus meetup. Great presentation from @MarkTinderholt.com on #Azure OpenAI.

I'm looking forward to attending the Azure Cbus meetup tonight with @marktinderholt.com talking about RAG, JFK, and Azure OpenAI. Join us! #Azure www.meetup.com/central-ohi...

Sure generative AI is great. But what I really want is my Windows PC to just work in the morning. No multiple reboots to slap in whatever stupid update “fixed” something. Instead of another AI data center, make Windows reliable.

As organizations increasingly deploy multi-agent LLM systems to manage complex queries,

Turn your designs directly into code using @figma.com's Dev Mode MCP server in VS Code - now available in open beta!

There were a lot of exciting announcements during Build 2025, spread across several Microsoft offerings! Be sure to check out the top 25 announcements at azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/... #Azure #AI