My new @oreilly.bsky.social Radar piece traces that history and shows why 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠. 📖 Read here: www.oreilly.com/radar/prompt...

Are you ready for Hacktoberfest? We at the .NET Foundation are! Join us this October, contribute to open source, and earn a digital .NET Foundation certificate. For more information and the full rules, visit our website! dotnetfoundation.org/community/ha...

Hey, "Vibe" coding has VB in it. See also levelup.gitconnected.com/the-death-of...

TechBash 2025 Prices Increase Soon; Register Today! | by Jason Gaylord jasong.us/47UC373 #devconference #techbash #techevent #kalahari #poconos #dotnet #cloud #webdev #appdev #ai #devops #nepa

my book "Design and Build Great Web APIs" s 45% off for the next 48 hours! Grab it with code "flashsale" buff.ly/Ta2EIAd #pragprog #api360 #apiDesign

For new ASPNET Development, what are you using for your front end? 1️⃣ Razor Pages 2️⃣ Blazor 3️⃣ JavaScript (Vue/React/Angular) 4️⃣ Other 📊 Show results

Listen, I've been a mostly-reskeet feed lately because everything is so dark and dire I just can't. But I have to say: If you have ever watched one of my talks and did not come away with the core concept that you *must* care about other people, *deeply* care... you did not actually watch my talk.

🚀 The 2025–2026 .NET Foundation Board of Directors campaign begins! We’re excited to introduce our 12 candidates who are shaping the future of .NET open source. 👉 Candidate list: dotnetfoundation.org/board-electi... #dotnet #dotnetfoundation #opensource

.NET Short-Term Support (STS) timeframe extended to 24 months (from 18) devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

The Early Access Program for ReSharper and .NET Tools 2025.3 Is Here buff.ly/0VcasuN #dotnet #resharper #visualstudio #csharp #dottrace #dotmemory

Are you ready for Hacktoberfest? We at the .NET Foundation are! Join us this October, contribute to open source, and earn a digital .NET Foundation certificate. For more information and the full rules, visit our website! dotnetfoundation.org/community/ha...

w00t! My mocking library, Rocks, just went over 100k in downloads on NuGet! ... Yes, I know Moq and NSubstitute are in the millions, but hey, gotta take these little milestones :) #dotnet #csharp www.nuget.org/packages/Rocks www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj9l...

new image for every Kubernetes presentation just dropped

Thinnest cell phone ever!

You'll never guess what we're calling the next version of Visual Studio

Blogged: System of Record And Source of Single Truth Are Not The Same bit.ly/45XpO8n

OH: celery is water with hair

Blogged: Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - September 7 bit.ly/4nnqUQx #dotnet

Something from an article on procrastination caught my eye: "we don't need to feel motivated to begin; we need to begin in order to feel motivated."

Reminder: Observability > Telemetry > Logging. Observability is more than having telemetry in a log; it's being able to detect and act on the information within it.

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

emojis are sadly lacking "air quote" fingers 😔

We raised a $3.5M CAD seed round led by AQC Capital, with participation by well-known angel investors - including @scott.hanselman.com! 🎉 Why raise a seed now? What's ahead? Read more👇

Microsoft’s 6502 BASIC is now Open Source! Pretty sure some of us are old enough to have used BASIC on 6502-based machines. msft.it/63321sekTP

It's strange to think that patriarchal norms can affect the way we build software, but they do. I'm happy to share that the article my wife, Vanessa, and I wrote has been published in the @nljug.bsky.social Java magazine. It was our first time writing an article together, and it was...

Blogged: Being A Successful Software Developer - Agilely Managing Expectations bit.ly/4p4UCeK

Expect your mobile to go off 3pm Sunday! Be prepared for a test of the Govt's emergency alert system. Full info... www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/09... LIVING WITH DOMESTIC ABUSE? If you've a hidden mobile, you the link above has details of how to opt out of the alert. Pls share

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What are your favorite channels to follow on YouTube for learning about software engineering?

If "Please" and "thank you" cost LLM hosts millions, how much does AI sycophancy cost them?

So _that's_ who's moving cheese!

Some Microsoft .NET libraries are considered "Platform Extensions", released on a monthly cadence where only the latest version of a library is supported. Yes, each one is supported for only a month. And you can't tell a Platform Extension package from a .NET package by its name. #dotnet

Masked immigration raids don’t protect us. They hide abuse and strip away our dignity. Stand with me in demanding transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition.

Blogged: Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - August 24 bit.ly/47NQgCu #dotnet

If AI can generate messages when performing a commit, does that mean commit messages are becoming redundant? During the PR review process, a description of the change could be generated. What is generated could also be scoped by what the reviewer has selected.

#TechnologyAndFriends, Episode 865: Steve Smith (@ardalis.com) on How Generative AI is the New Offshoring youtu.be/jhriGGuaW4w

Got a notification that "A Visual Studio security update is read to be installed.". But clicking the notification did nothing. Searching online I found that this type of update is done via Windows update. Windows update showed the update, failed because @visualstudio.com was running, and to retry.

For the God Object works in mysterious ways.

Blogged: Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - August 17 bit.ly/4mrQunq #dotnet

.NET 10 preview 7 improves asp.net’s passkey support

No chance of misunderstanding.

My colleagues at ASML are looking to speak with folks about a tool they're building to document harassment on X (consent based, optionally OTR, etc.). Goal of the tool is to make it less laborious and less re-traumatizing to document a harassment attack. $30 gift card for your time. More info below

Failures are not the responsibility of executives, only successes.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" www.npr.org/sections/the...

Blogged: Software Architecture Fundamentals - System of Record bit.ly/4fEEr3z

And ReSharper out of process!!!

People who pronounce UAT as "You at" but not QA as "Cue eh" make me laugh.

What's New in @jetbrains-rider.bsky.social #Rider 2025.2🎉 🧠Junie Al coding agent for complex development 🐕‍🦺MCP server for external Al clients 🏥New Monitoring with interactive charts & automatic performance issue detection 📈OpenTelemetry for runtime observability 🐛Faster stepping during debugging ...

Playing around with replacing TPL DataFlow with System.Threading.Channels in Marten, then later to Wolverine. Got off to a rough start, but going better now. Too early to tell if it's worth the effort, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯