"In this book I will not attempt to answer the question of whether or not computers can be programmed to think. I sometimes ask people if people can think. Human intelligence may also be an illusion.” -Timothy J. O'Malley

Come see my talk about this at @azuredevsummit.bsky.social next month.

Is the Singularity near? What do you think?

Ever wonder what happens when you send the wrong file to that AI recruiter at Meta? 😂

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Level up your Rider setup!🚀🔝 The latest plugin guide for JetBrainsRider from @jguadagno.com covers AI tooling, Azure integration, structured logging, #OpenTelemetry, .NET Aspire, and presentation tools. Thanks, Joseph, for the detailed breakdown!🔗 jb.gg/rd-plugin-br... #dotnetaspire #azure #dotnet

It's funny because it's true.

The CFP is open for the JetBrains .NET Days Online! 🎉 Folks, send in those talks! sessionize.com/jetbrains-ne...

My new hobby: listening to the Very Important People(tm) who are soooo important they just have to loudly have meetings in public places such as airports. Taking notes so I can let their bosses know. Or competitors. Clearly they want this info to be public or they wouldn’t shout it.

🥳 ReSharper turns 21! What started as just an idea 21 years ago has transformed into the ultimate productivity tool. Today we have two new guests joining the party: 🚀 Out of Process mode: jb.gg/rs-oop-bs 🆕 ReSharper for VS Code: jb.gg/rs-vsc-bs Thanks for being part of our journey!

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This is an eggselent pun. Glad Jen didn't chicken out on posting it.

Did you know? North East, Pennsylvania is a town in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania? That's very Pennsylvanian of them.

Fun fact: The average Stephen King book has more words than a 5.25" floppy disk can hold.

Check it out, folks! Finally ReSharper OoP has been released in our EAP (Early Access Program)! You can be some of the very first developers to try it out. Let us know what you think!

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The power behind JetBrains DataGrip, now in ReSharper. 🎉 "Visual Studio runs the query, but ReSharper helps you write it." 💪 blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...

I used to believe, there’s no “i” in Teamwork. Google set me straight.

If the Muppets were real people...

The awesome team at @gradle.com have taken my blog posts and Opinions about Flaky Tests and put them all together in a very wonderful white paper! Whether you care about #FlakyTests or think you don't have them, there's something in here for you. #DeveloperProductivity #TestAutomation

Now in VS Code: JetBrains AI Assistant 🚀🤖 Context-aware AI chat, smart code completion, documentation generation, and multi-file edits with Agentic Mode. Supports Java, Python, C#, JS, and more. Join the preview: jb.gg/aia-vscode-b...

Woot woot! Finally, ReSharper in VSCode! 🎉🍻 Grab your copy today!

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Want to write effective prompts to get the most out of your AI tools? Check out this tip www.jetbrains.com/guide/ai/tip...

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Did you know? Barilla pasta has a Spotify playlist. Drop those noodles into the boiling water, press play, and when the music is done you have perfect al dente pasta. This is fantastic. 🍝💖😂 open.spotify.com/user/w2p1oq8...

Party! Party! Rider/R# release party! Starting soon. 🎉🥳🥂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAx1...

@jetbrains.com JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier 🎉🥂🥳🙌 blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/04...

Refactoring mistakes can mean costly bugs and unhappy users. We are only human, after all. I just published a video demonstrating how to do "Replace command with function" in small, safe steps in Java. It's the same steps that @martinfowler.com outlines in his Refactoring book. youtu.be/immGpH8Sgow

I got a lot of stickers and pins from @jetbrains.com of WebStorm, PyCharm, and Rider. If you see my face at a conference, please tap me on the shoulder if you're looking for some. I have plenty 👀

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Announcing ASP.NET Core Reimagined with htmx—your go-to guide for building modern, server-driven apps! Dive into Chapter 1 to see why htmx pairs perfectly with ASP.NET, Chapter 2 to set up your dev environment, and Chapter 3 for your first hands-on steps. #htmx #dotnet #ASPNET aspnet-htmx.com

Lmao. Saw this on other social. Exploits of mom 2025 edition

Him: kids these days! Me: what did they do now? Him: They put all their data in a json and stuffed it in a single column of a Postgres table and claim they’re doing SQL! Me: This is the kind of pet peeve I’m longing for, tell me everything!

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Trisha throws down the gauntlet on comments 💣💥

What the duck is going on in tech? We talk about performance. We rarely talk about the pressure behind it! I wrote about the duck syndrome and why pretending to be fine is exhausting. 🦆 medium.com/@aichalaafia...

Thinking about that time the MS Office team gave me a cow bell at the MVP Summit and the hilarity that ensued. 🐮🔔😂

Happy 404 this date could not be found day to all who celebrate.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

We're almost there! Catch up on our journey to take ReSharper out of process. And that's no April fool's joke. blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...

Who's watching Severance? 😂 youtube.com/shorts/UAjSE...

Tfw you're trying to reproduce a bug, and it turns into a Heisenbug...

Now I just blogged about it too! 🚀 Building a Model Context Protocol server in C# is easier than you think! The future of AI is all about context. Learn how to connect AI local models to your data sources with the official MCP SDK. 📖 laurentkempe.com/2025/03/22/m... #dotNET #AI #CSharp #MCP

How would you count fireflies, in order to help save them from extinction? Using an LLM of course. This is great. www.youtube.com/watch?v=czt_...