🎨 Meditations on Code As Art This month, explore the artistic side of programming! Discover how developers imprint themselves on their work through history, from elegant patterns to deliberate artistic expression. 🗣️ @davidwhitney.co.uk 📍 Betfred, Manchester 🕕 Tue 14th Oct 18:00

Great talk by @simonpainter.bsky.social last night at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social. Going to challenge myself to try and integrate more Functional approaches into my code.

I may have gout in both feet and an ankle, but I won’t let that stop me from enjoying @themaccabees.bsky.social ever 🫶

Thoroughly enjoyed the new Mission Impossible. Bit of route 1 exposition at the beginning but apart from that, a proper good action movie

Incredibly proud that @dotnetnorth.bsky.social has just reached 4000 members. We originally started as a Windows Phone group with about 20 members. Thanks to all our members, speakers, hosts and my fellow organisers.

🎮Midi Birds: Playing games with .NET MAUI with @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social! Can MIDI controllers, birdsong & a clown wig make the perfect game show? Find out! 📅 Tue May 20th, 18:00-21:00 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, Manchester 🔊 No prior knowledge needed!

Double header at Dot Net North this month! @lucecarter.bsky.social on Semantic Kernel + MongoDB AI integration, and @stevefutcher.bsky.social making software installs smoother with Chocolatey. Tickets are free, and there's pizza + drinks! 📅 Tue 15th April, 18:00 📌 Spektrix, 196 Deansgate

Spoiler Alert: Tonight's @dotnetnorth.bsky.social Raffle Prizes include Socks! 🧦 Raffle Prizes: @jetbrains.com licences, Microsoft Azure socks, @platform.uno t-shirts + free for all: stickers from GitHub and Microsoft, Dot Net North beer mats

Had a great time at #MAUIDay Thanks to the sponsors, organisers and speaks for a top day!

Can definitely tell I’ve not been down south in a while - just said “evening” to the London bus driver 😅

Watch the full interview with Anders Hejlsberg and @danr.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...

Our next event is "A Victorian take on Rich Domain Plumbing" - Victorian Plumbing's approach to DDD in code: fewer bugs, simpler solutions! 🗣️ Dave Manton, Head of Architecture at Victorian Plumbing 📍 Peninsula Building, Manchester 🕕 Tue 18th March, 18:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!

When the conference talk inspires you to spend your pocket money 😁 @rob-miles.bsky.social #DDDNorth

Had a great day at #dddNorth thanks to all the organisers, speakers and helpers for a fantastic event (as always)

Kicking off #MAUIDay UK in style is @davidortinau.com with .NET MAUI Now and Next. In this session he'll share the product highlights and candidly discuss the #dotnetMAUI team's vision for the future of mobile & desktop cross-platform development. 🗓️ March 14th 2025 📍 Central London 🎟️ mauiday.net

Thank you @dotnetnorth.bsky.social for hosting me and letting me geek out on how copilots and other LLM based apps work, and show off my Star Wars copilot powered by @getpieces.bsky.social.

🚀 Join us as @jimbobbennett.dev shows how to build your own Jedi-powered dev co-pilot! We'll use PiecesOS to create a context-aware AI assistant (Death Star plans optional) #dotnet #manchester 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, M2 4JG 🕕 Tue 28th Jan, 18:00-21:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!

First D&D sesh of the year, and I think something weird may have happened over the Christmas break. The team created 2 attack plans and both came off! Normally it’s just a table of chaos. I don’t like it!!

If you haven't used aspire yet, now's a great time to play with it learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... #dotnet #aspire

Here’s the repo that compliments tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social talk on ”What’s new in Aspire” github.com/adenearnshaw...

Doing a talk this week and still not finished the deck. I had 2 weeks off over Xmas to do it, yet here we are leaving it to the last minute yet again. You’d think at 37 I may have learnt by now 😅

UK folks - I'll be at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social in Manchester on the 28th January talking about building a Star Wars copilot with C# and @getpieces.bsky.social! Come join me. www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

🎯 Deep dive into .NET Conf with talks on Aspire, .NET 9 changes, GitHub Co-pilot & Uno Platform and more from our amazing speakers! #dotnet #manchester 📍 Manchester Tech Centre (on Oxford Road by Hatch) 🕕 Tue 14th Jan, 18:00-21:00 🎟️ Free! 🍕 Food included Register: www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...

Nerd sniped myself this week. Pushed a 2pm app update to the product team on Friday before turning my out of office on for 2 weeks. Immediately got a crash report that it’s not working on iOS 16. Got that niggle, so had to spend my Saturday afternoon fixing it. Couldn’t leave it 2 weeks 😅

Spent 2 days getting EF to automatically insert triggers in a Migration whenever a new table is added. A friend asked “why not just remember?” A core tenet for code is maintainability. If future me forgets to add these triggers I could maybe lose < 2 days trying to debug & helps other colleagues too

It’s hard to be a #saintsfc fan right now. When you see McCarthy’s name on the team sheet you can at least steel yourself for the inevitable

Sometime you just have to be honest with yourself and give up trying to make that pesky reverse proxy work, and resign yourself to a slightly more difficult local dev setup 🫠

Hello friends 👋