October was a crazy month for conference travel, work commitments whilst road warrioring etc. Good to see friends on the tech conference “circus” but better to be home. Lovely to just spend time with my daughter, 11, yesterday at the London Youth Games, and just chill in the afternoon together.

I’m a little mixed in Pluribus, but prepared to give it time. The first episode was great, but the character’s varied reactions to the trauma of the event in the second didn’t ring true.

It’s a Saturday, so it must be a cross-country

It's 2025, and we are raising a petition so that children can go to the toilet at school, but here we are. (For those not in the UK, yes, this is real, and as stupid and cruel as it seems.) Please do sign: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

We have released V10 of Brighter. This represents a significant set of improvements and sets the groundwork for other changes in V10.X releases to come. (We will continue to support V9 with bug fixes until V11; Our release cadence for major versions is 1-2 years.) Details below.

Well, I am never going to win a Penguin is better than Tim-Tam argument with an Australian ever again, am I?

What happens when you mash up two of @chaosium.bsky.social 's biggest recent releases? Find out with our one-shot #actualplay of @icooper.bsky.social #Questworlds #AgeOfVikings over on Unconventional GMsa youtu.be/0R1QtixmQRw?...

Sounds awesome

Thank you @icooper.bsky.social for the talk on Responsibility Driven Design tonight at the London DDD group. A great talk as always. Thank you.

If you want hardcore runtime details then I recommend botr (book of the runtime) github.com/dotnet/runti...

Happy about it as @icooper.bsky.social is on my short list of the people I respect the most in messaging and architecture. Plus, he's a cool guy, so feel invited, we'll try to keep it lightweight, but I'm sure that Ian will bring sound insights 🙂

Geek down! So great was the amount of material in Monolith’s Conan Kickstarter shipment (an age of cardboard packaging undreamed of) that I have been injured during the unboxing.

Finally, received confirmation of my resignation from the Labour Party. It took a while. Whilst they have called Reform's deportation plans racist, they continue to appease Reform voters' racism and march to the beat of Nigel Farage's drum. I'm done with them and will be joining the Greens.

Architecture isn’t about perfect diagrams - it’s about enabling teams to decide well when you’re not there. As @icooper.bsky.social, @hanneslowette.net & @davidwhitney.co.uk say: the best architects create culture, not constraints.

So, Gandalf finds Thrain in Dol Guldur. Barley alive. He can’t remember his name. Stripped, tortured, his ring (one of the seven gone). But Thrain has a map to the hidden entrance of Erebor and a key. Where was Thrain hiding that map? What was Gandalf’s account of this to Thrain?

With the news that #dotnet will not be releasing its own eventing framework and that Mass Transit is going to a commercial license, Brighter (@BrighterCommand) remains FOSS, is mature (over 15 years old), and continues to expand its support for middleware and databases.

If you're abroad and frustrated that our US-based company only ships to the US, remember: we release every title to international distribution so you can order it from your FLGS far cheaper than we could ship it. In the UK, check out @leisuregames.bsky.social They have our latest titles in stock.

Very happy that you can get these again. Enjoy, or just share your memories of them if you have already seen them! #QuestWorlds

I will be giving my messaging workshop at KanDDDinsky on October 21-22. On the first day, we explore the core concept of how we communicate using messaging from message pumps to brokers, with coding exercises. On the second day, we explore reactive architectures.

We have another preview for V10 out. It resolves EF Core scope issues and ensures that all our samples now work. We still have some fixes for high-scale DynamoDB outboxes and improved support for registering built-ins if you don't use AutoFromAssemblies. www.nuget.org/packages/Par...

Domain-Driven Design London's next event is 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟗𝐭𝐡, 𝐢𝐧-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 in London! @icooper.bsky.social will be presenting 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐝. Grab your tickets here: dddlondon.com/events/responsibility-driven-design/

Next up (14:50) in Commercial 3 is Dale Lane, asking: what are we missing in AsyncAPI?

Come to Commercial 3 for the AsyncAPI track at API Days, starting at 14:00. We look forward to seeing you. First up Daniel Kocot

I am at API Days today. I am standing in as the MC for the AsyncAPI track. Come say hi at the booth! (Come early enough and there might be stickers left)

It's time for our fight song: youtu.be/EfK-WX2pa8c?...

We're a very-basic user of Brighter + Darker (in-memory for now) leaning on the CQRS patterns you provide. We're happy to spend a half day having a play without docs because we're using it "light-touch" rather than full on queuing system. I doubt we're needing the truly sexy new features - yet!

A quick status update on Brighter V10. - We are feature complete, which means we will not add further breaking changes. (We expect additional features in V10.X, but these will not be breaking changes as we follow SemVer.)

As conference season approaches, a little catch up on what I am up to in October

It will have taken me 3 hours to get home in London, twice as long as it took me to get from Leamington Spa to London.

I had a lovely time at Owlbear and Wizard’s Staff in Leamington Spa. Always a fan of boutique cons with a Dunbar number of people attending. Great to see so many frogs there. Thanks to the organisers and everyone who ran a game for me, or whose game I played in.

We're in the final stretch for the Tribes in the Dark #ttrpg Kickstarte. I've been putting some final tweaks on the text, and getting excited about the new art we'll be able to commission.

Chaosium's Ian Cooper is at The Owlbear and Wizard's Staff this weekend (Leamington Spa 🇬🇧 Sep 21-14) chaosium.com/blogian-coop...

The tragedy of the UK is that we grew up believing that our government would dispatch James Bond with his “license to kill” to dispatch megalomaniac media tycoons, water barons and mad billionaire rocket builders. The reality is Bond would probably turn up to award them their MBE.

My flight took off at 19:20, I have landed at 19:06. I have travelled in time. AMA.

Given the remarks of the cabinet today, the full throated Labour embrace of racism by Cooper and Starmer, that’s enough with any grace. It’s time to resign my membership of the party, end my contributions and join the greens. We are done here.

When Nigel Farage said he'd feel uncomfortable living next door to Romanian migrants, his comments were widely condemned, with then Labour leader Ed Miliband calling them a "racial slur". Now 11 years later, such sentiments are not just condoned, but actively encouraged by our Labour Prime Minister

Oh man he was so cool and really funny, this breaks my heart

Love Tribe8, and enjoyed the playtest version; I’m going to be backing this one.

For those interested in my two-day workshop on messaging (day one: messaging; day two: reactive architectures), then I will be presenting it next at KanDDDinsky. kandddinsky.de/workshop/pract… This will be the only remaining public presentation this year. Hope to see you there.

Should be a new copy of the QuestWorlds PDF out with corrections. Get it where you got yours.

“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the TRUE emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."

We've released Brighter **v10 RC2** (`10.0.0-preview.7`). We are close to feature complete on **V10** with this release. We need to fix bugs and be satisfied of quality before we go a final release. What's New in Brighter v10?

This was a tough talk to get right, and I'm not convinced @icooper.bsky.social and I got everything. At the very least, I hope it made you think about how you instrument your Event Driven Apps. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7K5...

Staff Artist at Chaosium Inc. My job is to bring worlds to life. I like to illustrate subtle stories of the mundane, not just the stories of the heroes. And the heroes are not perfect either. My view is not focused in the middle of the scene. It’s a little bit off*. 
I am where I want to be.

TBH if #Ofcom decides to restrict access to Wikipedia under the online safety act it has lost its way and strayed into censorship and not protection

Just a note on the UK age check here. It was fairly painless. I opted for credit card verification via Stripe (it’s not like Stripe doesn’t have that anyway, so surface area for attack is the same).