Rachel Appel
@rachelappel.bsky.social
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.NET developer 🥑 at @JetBrains • shenanigans🍀• shitposts 💩 • MSc Software Engineering 🖥️ • 🧙♀️
Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week. This is SciFi-level impressive.
www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2517389-human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week
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I'm not a car person but I do like Legos and this is pretty cool. Lego to make a Model T set.
www.wxyz.com/news/lego-fo...
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LEGO & Ford create a Model T set honoring 'the car that changed the world'
A globally recognized brand is celebrating a Detroit invention that put the world on wheels. LEGO Group teamed up with Ford Motor Company to build the Model T.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/lego-ford-create-a-model-t-set-honoring-the-car-that-changed-the-world
4 days ago
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Dan Clarke
5 days ago
The next
#UnhandledException
podcast episode has now dropped! I was joined by
@irina.codes
and
@jtowermi.bsky.social
to chat about the
@dotnetfoundation.org
and their recent experience being elected onto the board!
unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0084-d...
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I just heard someone say "I know what a life of reading has done for me" and that is a quote everyone should be on board with. 💪📖🧠
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Monday on
#TechnologyAndFriends
: Rachel Appel (
@rachelappel.bsky.social
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youtu.be/mzRiDTpkKNU
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Rachel Appel on Dark Patterns [EPISODE 891]
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https://youtu.be/mzRiDTpkKNU
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15 days ago
#TechnologyAndFriends
, Episode 890 Rachel Appel (
@rachelappel.bsky.social
) on Retro AI and How Algorithms from the Commodore 64 Era Still Apply
youtu.be/fRMnxW93D_g
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Rachel Appel on Retro AI and How Algorithms from the Commodore 64 Era Still Apply [EPISODE 890]
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https://youtu.be/fRMnxW93D_g
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Alvin Ashcraft
15 days ago
JetBrains Rider Settings for Presentations | by Joseph Guadagno
www.josephguadagno.net/2026/02/16/j...
#dotnet
#speaking
#presentations
#rider
#jetbrainsrider
#csharp
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JetBrains Rider Settings for Presentations
I have been using JetBrains Rider for a while now and I have been really happy with it. I have also been using it for presentations and demos. I thought I would share how I set it up for…
https://www.josephguadagno.net/2026/02/16/jetbrains-rider-settings-for-presentations
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Dennis Doomen
16 days ago
Mockly, my new .NET HTTP mocking library has its own website now. Check it out at
mockly.org
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Laurent Kempé 🚀
16 days ago
🚀 Automated ReSharper/Rider pattern creation with Agent Skills! No more XML hell—just describe what you want in natural language. ✨ Works with Junie, GitHub Copilot... 📝 From 15 min → 30 sec
laurentkempe.com/2026/02/16/a...
#DotNet
#CSharp
#AI
@rider.jetbrains.com
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Laurent Kempé - Automate Rider Search and Replace Patterns with Agent Skills
A few years ago, I wrote about how ReSharper's Search with Pattern feature helped me refactor a massive C# codebase in minutes. The technique was powerful, b...
https://laurentkempe.com/2026/02/16/automate-rider-search-replace-patterns-with-agent-skills/
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@webstorm.jetbrains.com
is really taking that "Drive to Develop" motto to heart.
16 days ago
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Tagir Valeev
20 days ago
We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.
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Hydration as a service. SELECT drink FROM source WHERE 'water' = true;
23 days ago
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FlashOWare
29 days ago
And we're back! Starting into the premiere Episode of Season 2026 of
#2codeOrNot2code
by announcing our brand-new and year-long (and probably beyond) project, perhaps even our Opus Magnum. on 2026-02-03 (Tuesday) at 18:00 UTC
#dotnet
#CSharp
#Roslyn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgb...
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2code ^ !2code [S2026E01] Inspector Roslyn says "Hello, World!"
YouTube video by FlashOWare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rgb5RcbpoA
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Things I do that make zero sense, yet, here we are: - Put on glasses to listen to announcement on trains/airplane gates - Turn down music when I need to read signage
about 1 month ago
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Haaa WAT 🙃 unexpected
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about 1 month ago
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Joseph Guadagno
about 1 month ago
New Blog Post: (01/30/2026): "Introducing MoreSpeakers.com." RPs and feedback are always appreciated!
https://jjg.me/46pnZR9
#Articles
#.NET
#dotnet
#Development
#csharp
#Community
#Bootstrap
#ASP.NET
#Microsoft Azure
#Azure Functions
#Aspire
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Introducing MoreSpeakers.com
MoreSpeakers.com is a new platform dedicated to bridging the gap between aspiring and experienced speakers in the technology community by creating meaningful mentorship relationships that foster growth, confidence, and knowledge sharing.
https://www.josephguadagno.net/2026/01/30/introducing-morespeakers-com
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In today's edition of "What could possibly go wrong", I show you, Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network for AI Agents.
arstechnica.com/information-...
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AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast
Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/ai-agents-now-have-their-own-reddit-style-social-network-and-its-getting-weird-fast
about 1 month ago
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis
about 1 month ago
Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.
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Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates - NobelPrize.org
A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize may be submitted by any person who meets the nomination criteria. A letter of invitation to submit is not required. The names of the nominees and other informati...
https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/peace/
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JetBrains Rider
about 1 month ago
Attention,
#UnrealEngine
developers! Rider's expression evaluator has been rewritten, and the results are 🤯: 📍 Variable inspection is 87x faster on warm runs and 16x faster on cold ones. 📍 Debugger memory usage is over a third of what it was. Get the full story 👉
jb.gg/rd-261-new-l...
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How We Made Variable Inspections 87 Times Faster for Unreal Engine in Rider | The .NET Tools Blog
If you've ever expanded a complex Unreal Engine variable in Rider's debugger and had time to contemplate your life choices, this post is for you. We've rewritten our expression evaluator, and the r
https://jb.gg/rd-261-new-lldb-natvis-evaluator-sm
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Ich habe das gerade gehört "Hollandisch ist Deutsch auf Wish bestellt" 😂
about 1 month ago
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"Let me make this tiny change, what could go wrong?"
about 1 month ago
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Chris Woody Woodruff
about 1 month ago
“Cloud native” has become the excuse for wiring your entire system to one provider and calling it modern. New Simplicity-First essay: “Stop Calling It ‘Cloud Native’ When It’s Just Vendor Lock-In with Extra Steps.” Why your stack is cloud captive, not cloud agnostic.
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The Cloud Native Lie: When “Modern” Architecture Is Just Lock-In with Extra Steps
Somewhere in your company, there is a slide titled “Cloud Native Architecture” in bold font. Around that title float icons for containers, queues, managed databases, functions, message buses, and secu...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/cloud-native-lie-when-modern-architecture-just-lock-in-woodruff-4536c/?trackingId=acYX4IDJQcuzJhA5ro3xbQ%3D%3D
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Helen Kennedy
about 1 month ago
This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.
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The best part is that this eggcorn itself has all the Belgian whistles.😂
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about 2 months ago
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I'm working on a series of posts titled Failure as a Service (FaaS). It's about some hilariously cringe-worthy yet completely absurd approaches to software development that I’ve encountered throughout my career. It's based on a talk I give. It's time to write it down though.
about 2 months ago
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This is what I choose to believe 😂
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about 2 months ago
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Jonathan Channon
about 2 months ago
Just blogged - Agentic Semantic Data Modelling in C# This blog posts describes how you can enable stakeholders to generate adhoc reports via the power of C# and AI. It will discuss the business cost and benefit of implementing this.
blog.jonathanchannon.com/2026-01-12-a...
#dotnet
#ai
#mongodb
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Agentic Semantic Data Modelling in C#
This blog posts describes how you can enable stakeholders to generate adhoc reports via the power of C# and AI. It will discuss the business cost and benefit of implementing this.
https://blog.jonathanchannon.com/2026-01-12-agentic-semantic-data-modelling-csharp/
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Cyco
about 2 months ago
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
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Lux in the Bronx
about 1 year ago
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
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Barry Dorrans
about 2 months ago
Where can I cancel my two weeks free trial of 2026 before the deadline?
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I asked ChatGPT for some suggestions for something and it came back with "Try this...it slaps". Oh gee, thanks ChatGPT, that's what I want to hear. Youth speak. So, "It slaps". If mean like this 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️ then yeah.
#toooldforthisshit
about 2 months ago
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Hazel Weakly
2 months ago
We really need to come up with better metaphors for AI agents than junior developers and interns. It’s far more of a reflection of how disrespectfully we treat those roles than it is a useful metaphor for how agents behave
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James Vincent
2 months ago
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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I had always wondered why so many people online didn't seem to have even basic of reading comprehension, or would read things I simply did not write, or manufacture meaning out of thin air. Now I know why. This explains a lot.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
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Tech billionaires built a private operating system for your government. "It's like becoming stuck in that mobile contract you don't want anymore." 👉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpte...
👉
authoritarian-stack.info
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The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
https://authoritarian-stack.info
3 months ago
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Different generations reacting to their company's holiday party invitation. 😅😂
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No thanks
YouTube video by Champagnecruz
https://youtube.com/shorts/7yw0giRLWqM?si=awpVOOZIv-OfjG-I
3 months ago
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Emily Bache
3 months ago
Some people tell me they prefer to read articles than watch videos, so I'm trying out something new this time. My video just came out on the Modern Software Engineering Channel. I have also just published an accompanying blog post:
coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/what...
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What is more important to learn - Design or Coding? - Coding Is Like Cooking
AI coding agents are rather good at coming up with syntactically valid, working code these days. It also does design, reasoning about how to arrange that code. So is there still any point in learning ...
https://coding-is-like-cooking.info/2025/12/what-is-more-important-to-learn-design-or-coding/
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Dark Pattern in AI.
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3 months ago
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updog sinclair
4 months ago
found a site that's still up
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I'm amused. Exclamation mark.
4 months ago
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Paul Everitt
4 months ago
AI and the web.
@aiwithmichelle.com
and I did a video for
@jetbrains.com
... what happens when the humans leave the web? Based on the talk/ideas of
@maggieappleton.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9KI...
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What Happens When Everything on the Internet Is AI-Generated?
YouTube video by JetBrains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9KIh6zcvfY
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33 million views. 910 thousand likes. 4,300 comments. All on an outrage bait video created by Sora. As
@hankgreen.bsky.social
says in his video, whenever you see something that makes a lot of people angry, stop and consider that it's been manufactured for that reason.
youtube.com/shorts/eUpy3...
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We’re getting duped by AI outrage bait
YouTube video by Hank Green
https://youtube.com/shorts/eUpy3ECh3uI?si=hT4aAFinxkTgcIq3
4 months ago
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Kashana
4 months ago
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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It's impossible not enjoy this 😂😂😂
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4 months ago
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Matt Ellis
4 months ago
Get over to Reddit and post the issues you need fixed! Upvote the other comments. While we’ve had some great responses, I was expecting more feedback. You’ve got until the end of Wednesday!
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I just heard a new term I'm going to be using in the future: Slopsplaining: When someone who doesn't know anything about a topic offers up unsolicited AI generated slop 'advice' to others.
4 months ago
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Laurent Kempé 🚀
4 months ago
So true! Software release on Friday 😁😂🤣
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Software Release on Friday // click5
YouTube video by click5 Interactive
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IojxtR2YJJU
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Matt Ellis
4 months ago
What should Rider 2026.1 fix? I'm asking for a bit of community upvoting to know what issues you're most eager to get in to Rider 2026.1, which we're in the process of planning. How else were you planning on spending a wet Friday afternoon?
www.reddit.com/r/Jetbrains/...
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From the Jetbrains community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Jetbrains community
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jetbrains/comments/1odbcs2/rider_vote_for_the_top_5_issues_for_rider_20261/
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