Look at that sweet Aspire 9.5 release. www.youtube.com/live/29zIIH9...

@chris-ayers.com Thank you for featuring Sveltia CMS on your blog! We appreciate it 🥰

ICYMI - We have a pair of half-day workshops replacing a cancelled Messaging Architecture workshop. Get ready for a day of Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions with @kahless.bsky.social & @chris-ayers.com. Check out all the workshops and register at techbash.com

Windows Advanced settings is here! We restructured the For Developers page and added new features such as File Explorer with version control 🚀 Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥

🧠 Excited to announce I’ll be speaking at Techorama Belgium 2025 in a few weeks! Join me as we explore implementing AI in .NET and Resilience in Azure! Details here: chris-ayers.com/2025/05/08/t... #Techorama #Azure #DotNet #AI #CloudComputing

🛠️ I had a blast speaking at Stir Trek 2025 in Columbus last week! I shared insights on Dev Containers and GitHub Codespaces. There were a few great questions on multiple containers. chris-ayers.com/2025/05/04/s...  #DevContainers #Codespaces #StirTrek2025

🛡️ I'll be speaking at NDC Oslo 2025 in less than 2 weeks! Join me as we explore Azure resilience strategies for robust, fault-tolerant systems. chris-ayers.com/2025/05/06/n... #Azure #Resilience #NDC2025

🦆💻 Copilot or Rubber Ducky? Explaining code to a rubber duck is classic, but what if it talked back? AI tools like GitHub Copilot now offer interactive debugging! chris-ayers.com/2025/04/24/c... #AI #GitHubCopilot #Debugging

I'm sorry I haven't been super active lately. I've been heads down for a few months while diving into my new team. I'm surfacing again, getting ready for conference season, updating talks, blogging more. Here are a few posts I forgot to share... chris-ayers.com/2025/03/21/n...

@chris-ayers.com had a great session on Dev Containers and Codespaces! Definitely gave me a few "a-HA" moments 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 #StirTrek

Elevate Your AI Expertise with Microsoft Azure: Learn Live Series for Developers. buff.ly/NkZu9cl #ai #learning #microsoftlearn #cloud #azure #learnlive #aiagents

.NET AI Template Now Available in Preview - .NET Blog Announcing the first preview of the .NET AI Template for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the .NET CLI. Get started building amazing AI apps with .NET. devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou...

#TechnologyAndFriends, Episode 838: @chris-ayers.com on Dev Containers and Codespaces youtu.be/0GMo9Tmq3_I

So how’s it going so far?

Accessibility doesn't only help a small group of people. Accessibility helps everyone

GitHub Copilot is now free for @visualstudio.bsky.social - 2,000 completions and 50 chat messages a month, plus access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. No $ devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

Even more integrations coming from the .NET Aspire Community Toolkit, we've got SQLite hosting (www.nuget.org/packages/Com...), client (www.nuget.org/packages/Com...), and ef (www.nuget.org/packages/Com...) in preview! Hosting integration creates a new empty database and gives a web GUI option too

Honored to be in the top 3% of speakers for the 3rd year in a row! 2024 had its ups and downs, but sharing ideas and connecting at conferences has been a highlight. Thanks to everyone who supported me—here’s to 2025! sessionize.com/ChrisAyers/ #PublicSpeaking #TechCommunity #speakerlife

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

Excited for a Microsoft behind the gates tour at Kennedy Space Center.#nasa

kittens and dogs being cute today. Bean enjoying the new rug, and Zelda cuddling with Link. #Pets #cats #dog

Really interesting article about the #LEGO #UI design of their interfaces. The small 2x2 sloping blocks. Super cool. interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte... All credit to @westleyjam.bsky.social for sharing.

Been having fun this Advent of Code. Most days doing c# and python. Today after a joke discussion, solved day 1 in terraform. Just terraform init && terraform plan! Don't forget to donate and support them! adventofcode.com/2024/support github.com/codebytes/ad...

Had the opportunity at the Naval Aviation Museum to see my dad's letters, yearbooks, and navy paperwork. Really weird reading his letters home from college, talking about girls and grades.

Are you using pattern matching and switch expressions yet? #dotnet #csharp

I’m trying to decide if I use some prebuilt experimental WHLs for Python on windows arm64 if I try to fully set up my build chain so I can make them myself. A few packages aren’t installing properly for a project. I’m working on. Pandas for one

It’s a little strange going back to a city from your youth and visiting again. Navigating around is familiar but also different. Either way, it’s good to see family and friends.

My session with @scott.hanselman.com on responsible AI (with a lot of often humorous irresponsible AI demos) is now posted: My session on responsible AI (full of irresponsible AI) with Scott Hanselman is now posted:

This is really cool. I think I need to try it

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

You wanted starter packs to be searchable. Our engineers are busy keeping us online, so in the meantime, an independent developer built a new searchable library of starter packs. This is the beauty of building in the open 🦋

Follow us! go.bsky.app/CAr38pt

What, you want me to sell you the right to have AI scrape my work? What's the offer? $2,500 a book? Okay, here's my counteroffer: Go fuck yourself lithub.com/harpercollin...

Deep dive on Native AOT! Want to understand how native compilation works on .NET? This is a great talk to get a better understanding. #dotnet youtu.be/Gmn-4mVSjq4?...

This is nice, I updated my handle to my domain, @chris-ayers.com . Followed this document and it took less than 5 minutes :) bsky.social/about/blog/4...

I made a Starter Pack of people in tech who also happen to be underrepresented in the field. This was opt-in only. Sorry, I couldn't add everyone who asked. Starter packs have a limit of 150. I'll make a few more when I get a chance 💜 go.bsky.app/DFvXfF5

If your team/organization could use more encouragement, I'm available to hire for DevRel, software engineering, illustrations, and graphic design. I promise to be encouraging, and folks seem to like working with me 😄 Full-time would be ideal, but I'm open to other engagements!

My video on OpenTelemetry in Javascript just went live on the @ndcconferences.com YouTube. This is filled with practical tips for making Observable Javascript and Typescript applications on the backend. youtu.be/Bh0PeMM6VZQ?... Hope you enjoy! #OpenTelemetry #Observability

What a wonderful well thought out, researched, and written essay. I like how the focus is on AI and LLMs not as system components but as part of the process.

Excited for D&D tonight. Spent the afternoon prepping for our session, working on maps, updating my notes (I keep everything in Obsidian). It's been over a month since our last game due to travel. Can't wait to hang with friends while they bravely attempt to save magic and the world!

My coworkers are exhausted today.

Voted. Voted for Democracy. Voted for Women's Rights. Voted for Legalization. Voted for love and understanding, not hate and fear.

Weekend reading: the 2024 DORA Report. dora.dev/dora-report-... Dig into the impacts of AI, Platform Engineering, and Developer Experience. Looking forward to your feedback, reactions, and questions. #DORA #AI #GBGB

Had a nice time in Pensacola with my family. We had a dedication ceremony for my dad's brick at the Veterans Memorial Park. There was a Navy Chaplain and a group of my dad's classmates from the Naval Academy class of 1974. It was really an honor to meet them and hear their stories of my dad.

I think it’s time to move here.

Great discussion of DevContainers and #GitHub Codespaces. Amazing audience today, great questions, engaged. Can’t wait for recording to hit YouTube. #NDCPorto

You can still get Late Bird 3-day & 4-day tickets w/ a 10% discount using code DOTNET10. You could also buy a 1-day Thursday ticket and come see @chrisayers.bsky.social talk about CI/CD w/ #GitHubActions plus lots of other amazing sessions. Learn more at techbash.com #github #devops #deployment

First entry into day 3 of the #csadvent is from @chrisayers.bsky.social, the first in a series on containerizing #dotnet: chris-ayers.com/2023/12/03/c... #csharp

Delivered 2 workshops at #TechBash, on Github Actions and Secure Terraform, then a session today on Dev Containers. So many amazing attendees and speakers. Having to head home for some other obligations and feeling #FOMO for #TechBash, #Github Universe, and #KubeCon!