Wow, a proper giant from the bike industry is retiring. I can't even imagine how many of his videos I've watched!

House.

Having to improvise coffee whilst visiting my mum!

Flying visit to Yorkshire to see some family before Xmas. Can you name the series?

I tend to stay away from politics on social media, but I'm very much looking forward to what the world does with trump once his presidential veil of protection ends. I'd at least like to think that he'll never see a UK golf course again.

Top 1% 😮 git-wrapped.com

@scott.hanselman.com Hey Scott, which widget or app were you using to transcribe your voice in the Aspire coding stream on Friday please?

It's that time of the year again! I listened to 609 different artists, but 4 out of my 5 top songs were by Lari Basilio. Apparently I'm a top 2% global fan 😁. #SpotifyWrapped

Spent most of today getting to grips with @playwright.dev and their 3 new Agents, and wow! I used to employ entire teams to do this! @debbie.codes any tips on how to prompt the "test planner" agent? Does it work to just say "plan tests for this page", or should I be more specific?

Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...

Aww, just as I'm trying to push some awesome updates to my @github.com repo ☹️

Hmm Aspire 13 and .NET 9 combo seems to be running like a dog for me at the moment (locally). 50% of the time it times out and fails to load the dashboard. Anybody else seeing this with that combo? It is, of course, possible that I've just broken something 😉 @aspire.dev

Celebrating Gerty Cori on #WorldDiabetesDay. Cori, a biochemist, co-discovered the Cori cycle which unlocked how the body regulates glucose--foundational for diabetes treatments & insulin therapy. She was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery. #WomenInSTEM

Is it just me, or does GitHub Copilot Agent not have access to .NET 10 SDK yet? It keeps downgrading my net10.0 projects to net9.0 because it can't find the SDK. #dotnetconf

So does this mean I could do Blazor WASM, wrapped in MAUI Hybrid, wrapped in WASM!? #dotnetconf

I'm sure he's gonna get into trouble, but @scott.hanselman.com's line about languages ("including god's favourite, C#"), was funny 😅. #dotnetconf

So few followers, it seems developers did not realize Aspire is on Bluesky. Developers make this number up. I'm sure we can reach 1000 followers by the end of the week. Share for more reach! @aspire.dev #dotnet #aspire #developer

I just released my first VS Extension! After seeing how excited @maddymontaquila.net got in an @aspire.dev YouTube live coding session about a VS Code NuGet visualisation, I decided to build a simple VS version. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

It's "new phone" day today, and I must say I'm excited!

Not complaining, but why is Microsoft Azure prioritising its Swedish data centres for gpt-5 models and agent MCP tooling? Neither are available in any other European region.

Thrilled to announce that @dabalox.com is part of the latest @bgventures.bsky.social cohort! #TechForGood #startups www.linkedin.com/posts/goodco...

Wow, what a different world that was! So many aspects of this will be baffling to kids today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrB...

I got to indulge my love of road cycling over the past couple of days. On Sunday I got to ride a bit with the amazing Jens Voigt. Then on Monday I cycled 95km to the Devon coast (including 1600m+ of climbing)!

Glorious day visiting the Niki de Saint Phalle exhibition in Bruton today!

Hmm... AI generated image? You decide 😉

My wife's bought a robot hoover, and now it looks like we have poltergeists!

RIP Ozzy open.spotify.com/track/44iFQN...

GitHub Copilot Coding Agent is pretty game-changing, but it can quickly run out of ideas. Me: "Sorry, same error. SignalR is getting reset" Copilot: "Let's try a different font" Genuine question: how do "vibe-coding" non-developers cope with this when it's in a critical part of their codebase?

Busy week coming up! Off to the InstallerShow at Birmingham NEC on Tuesday to talk with folk about @dabalox.com and Vertical AI. Back to Devon on Wednesday, then Liverpool on Thursday to pitch to an interesting angel network. #startup #startuplife #founders

What are England rugby and @rugbypass.bsky.social playing at!? Trying to watch the England v France match, but it's only available via their streaming platform, which is dreadful. Not @premiershiprugby.bsky.social awful, but close. Web + Android only, so you can't easily watch it on a big screen...

Shipped our MVP to our first customers earlier this week and, guess what, they broke it! Spent the last 48 hours coding and bug fixing like I'm 25 again only, this time, with more knowledge, healthier eating, exercise, and agents. It's been absolutely fabulous 😀. #startup #startuplife

I shared a 4-seat table with Amanda Holden and her kids on the train back to Devon. I helped her eldest with her maths homework.

Cool. Am I the first to download v4.12 of Fluent UI? #fluentui

That's better. Did you know that you can change your @github.com contribution graph to show anonymised private work? This now better reflects my activities over the past 6 months at @dabalox.com. Just click on "Contribution settings".

Unpopular opinion? After a decade of feeling as though I "had to" do front-end dev in Angular, it's an absolute delight to be working in Blazor. Being able to use C# up and down the stack (and .NET Aspire) has opened up new levels of productivity. #blazor #dotnetaspire

I'm struggling to optimise my car insurance. It's a multi-car and multi-driver problem. Anyone know of a company that I can just tell them all the details and they optimise the cover? This problem is fixed for single cars, but not yet for households it seems.

Anyone out there successfully developing .NET Aspire applications on Surface Laptop 7? The ARM64 architecture seems incompatible with nested virtualization, which means no wsl or hyper-v, which means no Docker, which means no emulation of, say, Cosmos DB. Extremely frustrating!

The first ever Git commit, 20 years ago by Linus. Pretty cool! github.com/git/git/comm...

My day so far... 1. Coffee 2. Tai chi 3. Investment pitch 4. Coffee I might just sit in the sun for a bit now 😊

I'm off to Berlin soon for a few days. Tell me what I should do whilst I'm there.

The only F1 cap I own. RIP Eddie.

Just 1 more week to get our data room up to scratch for our first investment round. If we get it, we're on our way to reducing 10m tons CO2e in the next 10 years. Wish me luck, energy, and sleep! #startup #climatetech

Can anyone suggest a good kick-starter for building .Net Aspire Blazor app deployed to Azure Container App please? I've found the "out the box" experience to be extremely poor. DI values randomly "nulled" and, using azd, all update deployments time out and fail. Really not what I was expecting :(.

To badly quote The Big Short... "What's going to happen?" "Honestly? I don't know. It's possible we are in a completely fraudulent system."

Mucking around with the new Microsoft.Extensions.AI namespace, and wrote Toastie the Toaster from Red Dwarf! Hat tip to @tanyamorton.bsky.social for the suggestion 😜

Today's @azureweekly.endj.in newsletter is available. It's a short edition this week. azureweekly.info/issue-496

Who do I know at @github.com who could help me transfer a dormant account to my new startup please?

I wrote a simple Edge extension to push sponsored YouTube videos into the background. Might work on other browsers, but haven't tested it yet. Help yourself to it if you're interested. github.com/goodcoffeeco...

Hello to Bluesky! I decided not to import my old Twitter existence, but it still exists at x.com/GoodCoffeeCode