"Wonder Man is the most distinctive MCU entry since WandaVision and among the highest quality Disney+ shows that Marvel has produced." It's a standalone, the show's heart is in its grounded relationships, and Josh Gad plays Olaf in the club. If you're not watching Wonder Man, you're missing out:

1/4 We've been overhauling our data engineering processes as we got tired of waiting for clusters to spin up, bad web-based dev UX,& tests taking hours to complete. We migrated our dataframe orientated workloads from #Spark to #Polars and immediately felt the benefits. endjin.com/blog/2026/01...

Absolutely loving Wonder Man. It's up there with Loki. Sir Ben Kingsley is obviously having an absolute blast playing Trevor Slattery again. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II is great. Marvel content always shines when they focus on the characters and everything fantastical is just the context to explore them.

North East Data Scientists is back with the first meetup of the year. 🔍 Roy Ruddle on investigating data quality 📊 Barry Smart on building interactive Streamlit apps For anyone working with R, Python, analytics, or data science in the North East. 🗓 29 Jan 2026 | Newcastle

Discovered that Phantasm I - IV are on Amazon Prime over the weekend. The spheres are nowhere near as scary as I remember - I must have conflated them with knife missiles from The Culture. A reboot with a more cosmic horror vibe could be really good.

Any senior .NET devs looking for a new gig? We’ve got openings doing some pretty impactful stuff. My DMs are open.

Gain even more trust and compliance with OneLake diagnostics immutability (Generally Available) by Tom Peplow blog.fabric.microsoft.com/en-GB/blog/g...

I was actually really impressed with the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy pilot. It did all the things a pilot should do (but most really don't), and it did them really well. I like that they've maintained some of the Lower Decks humour. Really looking forward to seeing Ep 2 tonight.

Happy birthday to me. 2025 in review... joeabercrombie.com/2025-in-revi...

The great @philco.bsky.social has added AOT support for Spectre.Console.Cli, and we've started a discussion on our Discord for anyone interested in trying it out and/or has feedback about the implementation: discord.com/channels/142...

I turned 48 last month. In other news I've just booked in for an eye test on Monday and have ordered a much bigger monitor. This year has been a bit too blurry for my liking.

The first CoreCLR Interpreter benchmarks are out and it’s significantly (magnitudes) slower than Mono. But a good first starting point and should be enough time in the 11.0 timeframe to improve: github.com/dotnet/runti...

It's time for my favourite blog post of the year - the annual performance benchmark of our .NET based AIS (Automatic Identification System) - Marine Vessel Telemetry - parsing library. Every vessel over a certain size has to transmit information (name, location, status, direction etc).

Ian Griffiths (of the Programming C# books) is releasing a series of short videos on all the new features in C# 14... first up... Script Directives... endjin.com/what-we-thin...

AI has transformed tech interviews into a game of cat and mouse.

Some thoughts on the UK budget: It seems the UKGOV are happy to class anyone with £5m assets as "wealthy" so why not raise the inheritance tax limit for farms to £5m also? It would remove one of the thorns in their sides...

We've just released a new version of the Interactive Extensions for .NET (Ix.NET). Now that .NET 10.0 offers built-in support for LINQ to IAsyncEnumerable<T>, it's time for Ix.NET's System.Linq.Async to step back. endjin.com/blog/2025/11...

I've been tracking Flatcar for a few years and it's fantastic that it's*finally* supported on AKS. Great article by @pixelrobots.co.uk

The Rx .NET talk for #dotnetconf is available in YouTube: youtu.be/y7Ks_bwSHUg?...

Spectre.Console 0.54.0 released! 🎉 spectreconsole.net/blog/posts/2...

It's #rejekts2025 day! Lots to learn 💉⚕️🩻🩺

Some Rx .NET News! github.com/dotnet/react... has been merged and github.com/dotnet/react... is available. This PR finally closes: - github.com/dotnet/react... (5 years old) - github.com/dotnet/react... (3.5 years old) You can see the rest of the v7.0 milestones here: github.com/dotnet/react...

Just published the first video from Ian Griffiths about the new C#14 features in .NET 10 - first up, Script Directives (AKA dotnet run program.cs) youtu.be/WinOQSYxda8 #csharp #dotnet #dotnet10

Fake it 'til you make it - generating production quality test data at scale. by @barry_j_a_smart #Data #Analytics endjin.com/what-we-thin...

I really wish more apps would support left-handed users... I'm forever accidentally liking/interacting with things because I scroll with my left thumb. I'm very grateful that @felix.gripe implemented "sinister mode" on spike.news

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The #Data Product Canvas: Stop Building #Data Products That Fail by Barry Smart #PowerBI endjin.com/blog/2025/10...

AI agents dominated Big Data LDN 2025, but success wasn't about the technology, it was about building foundations first. After tracking five years of evolution, the lesson for CTOs is clear: governance enables innovation at scale. Barry Smart's write-up & analysis: endjin.com/blog/2025/10...

An excellent write-up and analysis of the recent Big Data LDN event. Barry poses an excellent question "Where was Microsoft?" and says "if you're not in the room, you're not part of the conversation." endjin.com/blog/2025/10...

All 3 days of Carmel & Jess' deep dive write up of #FabConEurope 2025 are out: Day 1: - Keynote - Data Factory: What's New and Roadmap - Power BI Roadmap: Strategy, Vision and Demos - Unify your Data Estate with OneLake - What's next for Fabric Data Engineering endjin.com/blog/2025/09...

What an absolute joke Anthropic! A Max 20x account that lasts 2.5 days light use?

Rx .NET 6.1 is out! endjin.com/blog/2025/10... #dotnet #csharp

Carmel & Jess went to #FabCon in Vienna a couple of weeks ago. I never get FOMO because endjin-eers always do great write-ups of the sessions they go to. Here's Carmel's blog about Day 1: endjin.com/blog/2025/09... #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #OneLake #DataFactory #AI

So apparently my client has decided that we should (1) start using Cursor, and (2) show up at the office four days a week. After more than 6 years there, I’m thinking this might be my cue to eject. Anyone looking for a coder for a remote gig (or hybrid in Stockholm)?

The 4K remaster of Tron Legacy on Disney+ is stunning. The soundtrack on my surround system is 🔥🔥🔥

If your job involves #Azure or #AI or any of the Microsoft #Data platforms - it might be worth signing up!

I absolutely love this type of content.

It's #FabCon in Vienna this week. Carmel Eve & Jessica Hill from @endjin.com will be in attendance - say hi if you're there, if not keep an eye on the endjin blog & YouTube channel for more Microsoft Fabric content soon!

Two mentions of @endjin.com this week - the 1st was @ythos.bsky.social perf contribution - JsonMarshal.GetRawUtf8PropertyName - to .NET 10 in Stephen Toub's latest epic devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...

Back from 2 weeks holiday in Devon. First break in 2 years. The past 12 months have been incredibly challenging. Digital Detox FTW. Also managed to double book myself and had to miss Meatopia. Gutted about that: it's my favourite yearly event.

Had a great time chatting with @patriksvensson.se on @coffeeandopensource.com today about all kinds of #tech topics. Video is live on YouTube and podcast is available wherever you find them. Take a look/listen and thanks! https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/guest/patrik-svensson.html

Introducing Wassette: WebAssembly-based tools for AI agents by Yosh Wuyts #Azure opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/08...

It's nice to see that viewers feel the same way I do. The content my @endjin.com colleagues produce is the best you'll find on the interwebs.

A while back, I created "dotnet make" which will invoke your favourite build tool (cake, fake, make, nuke, csproj, fsproj, proj, sln) by convention, regardless of the current working directory in the repository. github.com/patriksvenss...

New Talk, including full transcript and links - "Rx.NET Packaging Plan 2025" endjin.com/what-we-thin...

Update from Ian about Rx .NET v7 packaging options: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSDs...

Ian has posted an update about the work he's been doing on Rx .NET over the last few months, and needs your feedback: github.com/dotnet/react... It's a big gnarly problem, the devil really is in the detail and there's no easy solution.

MASSIVE thanks for Jon George who finally got an internal app I'd migrated to use .NET Aspire to work after the 9.3 upgrade moved all the cheese and broke everything. What a palava!

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Well, that's year number 10 as an MVP. Slightly puzzled why they dropped my Azure category, but ho hum. 🤷 #mvpbuzz