I'll happily recommend this podcast from .NET Rocks w/ @hanneslowette.net explaining Event Sourcing. Thought this was a good rundown of strengths and unfortunately real challenges: www.dotnetrocks.com/details/1961

I keep seeing developers make the same mistakes over and over again. When you want to level up your impact, and thus your pay, only focusing on your tech skills doesn't get you there. Everyone who only focuses only on the tech, plateaus pretty early into their career.

I loved chatting to Flavia about the way they transformed their support organization!

A few weeks ago, I've released the second part of my Dometrain Event Sourcing course. In this one, I'm using Marten to explore more Event Sourcing concepts and practices. If you're interested, check out the link below. 30% discount with code SUMMER30! dometrain.com/course/deep-...

I had a chat with my friend @eli.holderness.dev about the cool stuff they do at OpenSAFELY. Be a fly on the wall for that chat, and take a look at this.

"It's just perfect for immediate use!" That's what our students say about our OpenTelemetry in .NET course. Stop wondering how to implement modern observability - start building it today with 40% OFF!

God I love the layout of the Suzuka circuit. What a great technical track. So many places to make a difference. #F1qualifying

Marten just crossed 10 million downloads!

My friend @rendle.dev gave a fantastic keynote at NDC London. They used their amazing sense of humour to drop some serious real talk about feeling like an imposter. I may have shed a tear when I was sitting there watching this. Many people needed to hear this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL2p...

I really enjoyed this conversation I had with the fantastic @maritvandijk.bsky.social about reading code. She talks about why reading code is hard, how to get better at it, and where tooling may help alleviate things. Thanks to @gotocon.com for recording and sharing this!

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Fuck everything about this news: unisa.edu.au/media-centre... We are creating a society where otherwise beautiful women feel the need to alter their appearance to adhere to an ideal that only a very small portion of men find attractive. We need to fight this. Hard.

@rendle.dev making real talk very funny as the #NDCLondon locknote. Next level!

LinkedIn is losing it. They are using AI-generated fake profiles to push ads, disguised as direct messages into the inboxes of everyone... including paying customers like myself who already pay ~$600/year for LinkedIn Premium. What a low. (This is real, from my "inbox")

@rendle.dev reading an NSFW children story (don’t ask how that works) at the @ndcconferences.com Christmas story. 2 minutes in, and I’m already dying.

@andersnoras.com at the @ndcconferences.com Christmas party: viruses were great until ransomware took the fun out of them entirely. If that makes you filled with FOMO, good. You should be here next year.

1. Wheel - Charismatic Leaders open.spotify.com/album/6cEt44... I’ve always loved Wheel, but they used to be a bit of a Tool clone. With this album, they really found their own sound. And it is proper good.

It’s december and everyone is starting to post their year in review, or is setting goals for the next year. Since 2024 has been thoroughly crap, and I’m gonna take 2025 slower, I don’t feel like doing either. So… let’s talk about music. Tell me about 6 albums from the past year.

This morning we announced my new gig as CEO and Founder of Zure UK. I'm really excited by the challenge of building something new. zure.com/blog/zure-uk...

. @noopman.com is talking about how we need to do cloud better at @cloudbrew.be. The average cloud project isn’t what is was meant to be. Sounds like ‘doing cloud right’ is actually a lot of work. Is that what the cloud promised us?

Want to learn about Event Sourcing and CQRS? I made a Dometrain course to get you started! I dive into Event Sourcing and CQRS by example as I build a working system from scratch. If you're quick, you can still get it at a discount with the Black Friday sale: dometrain.com/course/getti...

“This time, I’m going to take my time and cable this PC nice and clean.” … an hour later … “Nah, fuck it. This is good enough.”

Belgian TV personality crashes his Porsche against a roadworks vehicle, at 1AM, on a night where there’s footage of him being visibly drunk in a bar. Luckily injuring only himself. This is someone who earns more than €500k per year, and refuses to take a €15 taxi. Inexplicable. Inexcusable.

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

Our housekeeper asked me this morning what I was editing video about. I managed to explain to him in about 5 minutes what the benefits of Event Sourcing are, and why you would want to use it. Why is it still so hard to convince technical teams? #eventsourcing #stopcrud

Planning to learn something new over the holidays? Take advantage of the Black Friday sale at Dometrain. Use code BLACKFRIDAY24 to get 40% off on EVERYTHING! Check it out: dometrain.com?ref=hannes-l...

All my MVP friends, @tobiasfenster.io has built a little tool that adds you to starter packs and lists based on your MVP profile. Just add a link to Bluesky to your MVP profile, fill out the data in this form, and DONE! verified-bluesky-rpu7w3bv.fermyon.app

I've realized this week that this week that the quality of hotel hairdryers is just another expression of the patriarchy. I know what you're thinking. "Hannes, there's no way that those two things are related. You are just seeing ghosts." Well, hear me out... (a thread)

Erwin Verstraelen kicking off out Tech Tribes Talks conference for today. Telling the story about the APICA project in the Port Of Antwerp.

I love it when artists colour outside the lines of their genre. If you want to hear a weird blend between pop and metal, you will love this new Poppy album. open.spotify.com/album/0YIOpX...

Until we reach true equality, we need to be speaking up. Because if you don’t, you are part of the problem. Don’t be a dick, be an ally!

Another Visug XL! I’m looking forward to giving my EF Core talk. Hope to see you there!

@linebreakers.band playing this stage next, here at #BuildStuff. Last gig of our 2023-2024 tour! We’re going to rock this place!

My laptop is still broken, so I’m running my talk at #BuildStuff from my iPad. Should be fine, right?

How cool is it that we found a proper rehearsal space for @linebreakers.band in Vilnius? Looking forward to our #BuildStuff gig tomorrow!

#BuildStuff is where international speaking started for me, and where I joined @linebreakers.band. This is always such a blast. I am looking forward to seeing you there! The guitar is packed and ready to leave for Vilnius!

Since everything old is new again, I'm going to post some talks that I'm proud of. This is "The Worst Programming Language Ever" from NDC Oslo in 2021. It's mainly funny, but (allegedly) accidentally informative as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFB...

American friends, I can imagine today is even more stressful for you than it is for us. Just know that whatever happens, I still love you as a person.

Friendly reminder

Jelle, party instigator, partner-in-crime. He lived life at 200%, always there for everyone. He gave so much to his students, his kids, his friends and his family. Then depression got to him, and he took his own life. It didn’t need to be that way. He could have been here with us. Love you, bro.

Want to keep up with your Dometrain authors? I've created a Starter Pack! #dotnet #dometrain go.bsky.app/FUG6nj5

I’ll be listening to VOLA’s new album a lot the coming week. The songs they gave us before release are awesome, the rest of it turned out great too. open.spotify.com/album/2Ry1qg...

You probably don’t need microservices.

It’s @dylanbeattie.net and @hanneslowette.net live from KanDDDisnky in Berlin… and if you want to join the party tonight, grab yourself a ticket to the open space day on Wednesday and come on down! (and Hannes will buy you a drink. A pink one. With pink straw.)

Good news for the #dotnet ecosystem

I once achieved an above passable grade on someone else’s C++ exams, despite never having run any C++ code and only having studied for 1 day.

There, my pinned tweet posted here, minus the typo that has been bothering me for so long.

“I’ve never done that before, so I’m sure I can do it.” - Pippi Longstocking