Enjoyed an awesome podcast discussion just now with Tabish Bidiwale, the creator of #OpenSpec! We covered A LOT! - really looking forward to publishing this one!! Should be out in about a week 😊🎙️ #UnhandledException #ai

May’s newsletter has just dropped! (a bit late to include the Build items). 📰Dev news from the past month; a dev pick; a dev comic pick; podcast updates; and more! Subscribe to get this in your inbox each month. Shares are greatly appreciated 🙏 danclarke.beehiiv.com

We got another awesome episode of the Unhandled exception pod with @danclarke.com at @dddsouthwest.com

The next #UnhandledException podcast has now dropped! And this was a live-audience panel-based #AI discussion at the @dddsouthwest.com conference last week! @lottepitcher.bsky.social @kevlin.bsky.social @carlcod.es @rachelbeezedev.bsky.social @richardfennell.bsky.social

I'm now going to start calling Claude "Uncle Claude" after @lottepitcher.bsky.social mentioned that's what she calls it in a podcast recording we did yesterday 🤣

Really enjoyed recording a live-audience panel-based podcast discussion today at the @dddsouthwest.com conference! We chatted about what AI (surprise surprise) means for the software development industry. A massive thank you to the panel members, audience, and conference organisers! 🙏

It's a shame this seems to be buggy as! 😔 It quite often breaks terminal rendering, and also quite often just hangs, so I have to kill it. Hopefully they'll quickly release bug fixes 🤞

Oh nice! The new Claude Code agent view looks awesome! claude.com/blog/agent-v...

Really looking forward to doing another panel-based podcast recording with a live audience at the @dddsouthwest.com conference next week! Such a great conference, and it's amazing to have the podcast be part of it 😊 #DDDSouthWest2026 #UnhandledException dddsouthwest.com

Blogged: "OpenSpec - a lightweight AI-driven spec framework" www.danclarke.com/openspec/ #ai #openspec

Interesting project: github.com/nexu-io/open... An open-source version of the new Claude Design.

April's newsletter has just dropped! 📰 Dev news from the past month; a dev pick; a dev comic pick; podcast updates; and more! Subscribe to get this in your inbox at the end of each month. Shares are greatly appreciated 🙏 danclarke.beehiiv.com #dotnet #ai #programming

Blogged: "The Many Use Cases of AI Coding Agents" www.danclarke.com/the-many-use...

My first book is out: Laws of Software Engineering. The day has finally come after more than two years of writing and 6 months in preparation. Why did I decide to write this book? 👇

Reading @laurentkempe.com's blog post about his workflow with Git worktrees, and learned about the psmux project! I've been using tmux in WSL2 and love it - and discovering a version for Powershell and Windows has made my day! 🥳 psmux.pages.dev laurentkempe.com/2026/03/31/f...

I (well, Claude! 🤖) have cleaned up my website and moved a few things around. What do you think? www.danclarke.com

Blogged: "Developers are System Thinkers, not Code Monkeys" www.danclarke.com/developers-a...

The next #UnhandledException is now live. I was joined by @woodruff.dev to chat about the power of keeping things simple in software development. unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0085-s... #dotnet #softwaredev

Git worktrees are the new hotness now that agents can work on parallel instances of your codebase. What they don’t solve is the port conflict problem, that’s where aspire run/start —isolated comes! By @james.newtonking.com devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #aspiredev @aspire.dev

March’s newsletter has just dropped! 📰 Sorry it’s a bit late this time! Dev news from the past month; a dev pick; a dev comic pick; podcast updates; and more! Subscribe to get this in your inbox at the end of each month. Shares are greatly appreciated 🙏 #dotnet #ai #programming danclarke.beehiiv.com

Love this quote:

Nice! Just set up the new "Claude Code Channels" so I can talk to Claude Code via a Discord bot :)

Never think that you don't matter or make a difference! I have Claude a thought experiment comparing a reality where an individual exists vs one where they don't. This is something I've pondered about for a long time. Interesting seeing Claude's take! claude.ai/share/63fbbb...

The next #UnhandledException podcast episode has dropped! @danclarke.com was joined by @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social to chat about the .NET Foundation and their recent experience being elected onto the board! hubs.li/Q04565N70 #dotnet

Great episode of Unhandled Exception with @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social talking about @dotnetfoundation.org! @danclarke.com asked a lot of really good questions. unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0084-...

Took me three days to get through this #DotNet newsletter because every link was a banger 👍🏽

Something that came up in this conversation was that the Meetup subscription for the user-group I run (@dotnetoxford.com) is paid for by the @dotnetfoundation.org (with other #dotnet user groups). Something I take for granted. I just want to say a huge thank you to them for their support! 🙏

February’s newsletter has just dropped! 📰 Dev news from the past month; a dev pick; a dev comic pick; podcast updates; and more! Subscribe to get this in your inbox at the end of each month. Shares are greatly appreciated 🙏 #dotnet #ai #programming danclarke.beehiiv.com

The next #UnhandledException podcast episode has now dropped! I was joined by @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social to chat about the @dotnetfoundation.org and their recent experience being elected onto the board! unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0084-d... #dotnet

Enjoyed a lunch-time podcast recording with @woodruff.dev, chatting about simplicity-first and keeping things simple in software development. The episode will go live in a couple of weeks. #UnhandledException

I really don't understand devs now doubting the productivity gains of AI coding agents. Now is a totally different story from just a year ago. AI's doing and building stuff for me that I could never have begun to justify the time if I did it myself. And it's doing it better than I would have done.

Ack, just opened Claude Desktop and started typing just as a popup opened about something (and my typing dismissed it) 😬 I'm guessing it was just about Opus 4.6. If anyone gets this popup, could you screenshot it for me? Thanks :)

A massive thanks to @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social for joining me on the podcast just now! Really enjoyed geeking out about the @dotnetfoundation.org and their recent experience joining the Foundation's board! #dotnet #UnhandledException

Is it just me, or does Claude Code take longer to check for updates (even if there are no changes) than it takes for it to build a feature! 🤔😂 (okay, exaggeration - but only just!)

I've been meaning to knock up a desktop Pomodoro timer for a while, but just haven't had the time. Thanks to Claude Code, I "vibe-coded" it in no time! 🔥🍅 github.com/dracan/tomato More features coming soon! (Sorry, I'm afraid it's Windows only)

Everyone is guessing when we'll achieve AGI. Have they played with Claude Code with Opus?! This thing is INSANE!!! 🔥 And before I get jumped on - I'm joking about AGI... but seriously though - CC with Opus is mind-blowingly good!🤯

This newsletter was Excellent 👍🏽I keep up to date with things, but, there were still about 5 things that I just learned from your newsletter.

I've just sent out January’s newsletter. Dev news from the past month; a dev pick; a dev comic pick; podcast updates; and more! Subscribe to get this in your inbox at the end of each month. Shares are greatly appreciated. #dotnet #ai #programming danclarke.beehiiv.com

I wish there was a way to have Claude Code still show the status emoji prefix in the Windows Terminal tab text, after you've explicitly renamed the tab. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

I kept hearing about Wisprflow, so decided to give it a go. Wow, I'm now using it all the time! 😂 I was using winkey+h (built into Windows), but this is way better. If you're interested in giving it a go - use this link, as we both then get a free month.. wisprflow.ai/r?DAN1741

Time to start getting back into blogging (as it's been a few years now!), so here's a "2025 in review" post to kick off the 2026 blog posts 😊... www.danclarke.com/year-in-revi...

I've just sent out the December newsletter. Dev news from the past month; a dev pick; a dev comic pick; podcast updates; and more! Subscribe to get this in your inbox at the end of each month. Shares are greatly appreciated. #dotnet #ai #programming danclarke.beehiiv.com/p/newsletter...

A new #UnhandledException podcast episode has now dropped! Dan Clarke chatted with Debbie O'Brien about Playwright covering all its main features, including the Playwright MCP, with a lot of AI discussion thrown in too! hubs.li/Q03Z8fz10

The next #UnhandledException podcast episode has dropped, where Dan Clarke was joined by James World to chat about AI and the Microsoft Agent Framework. hubs.li/Q03YQ6f60 #dotnet #ai

A new #UnhandledException podcast episode has now dropped! 🥳 Had a great time chatting with @debbie.codes about #Playwright! We covered a ton of features, including the amazing Playwright MCP, with a lot of AI discussion thrown in too! unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0083-p...

Do you use automation tools like Make, Zapier, IFTTT, etc? If so, what automation scenarios have you set up? For context - I have my own #dotnet app running with a bunch of integrations and scenarios - so a sort of DIY approach. Just curious what scenarios others have set up?

The next #UnhandledException podcast episode dropped this morning! I was joined (for the 3rd time!) by James World to chat about AI and the Microsoft Agent Framework. unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0082-j... #dotnet #ai

Really enjoyed geeking out with @debbie.codes on the podcast about the amazing Playwright! Lots of AI chat too! 😊 The episode should be out in the next couple of weeks. Links to the podcast on all the major podcast platforms can be found on the podcast site: unhandledexceptionpodcast.com

New course alert 🎉 It's taken me over 2 years of creating courses to finally go back to my roots. Want to learn how to build .NET apps on #AWS? This is the course for you. In it, you'll learn about the core services you need to care about to build on AWS. #dotnet dometrain.com/course/getti...

If you have React apps out there, it's time to do some updating! 😬 react.dev/blog/2025/12...