New on the blog: Step Back — Take a break to solve a problem kevlinhenney.medium.com/step-back-39...

Not sure the source, but found this on FB, and it genuinely made me guffaw. The solution to the trolley problem

Why is Brighton flipping me off?!?

Aspire 9.5 new dashboard features, day 8: Traces with errors are now highlighted 🚨 This brings the traces page in line with how error logs are displayed.

Now that @umbraco.com supports Docker, would you be interested in a workshop for how to build with containers, the latest Tools including .Net Aspire and Open Telemetry? Running alongside @umbraco.foundation, we're gauging interest here : www.umbracofoundation.co.uk/workshops/ Please repost 🙂❤️

Classic reinforcement of gender stereotypes from the BBC. The national team thrashes USA in the Women's Rugby World Cup, and the headline story is a male footballer daydreaming about being a wrestler. FFS 🤦

After a slightly longer than planned break the .NET South West meetup is back!!!! Andrew Poole joins us to talk about Unit Test Complex E2E Flows + Integration Integration Testing with Aspire & OTEL Thanks to IO Associates for hosting, RSVP www.meetup.com/dotnetsouthw...

Hey folks, how's everyone doing today? Been a while since I've been more active on social media, but after losing my dad recently it's time to get back into things! Starting with an upcoming @dotnetsouthwest.bsky.social meetup - coming soon!

If my son Liam can undergo heart surgery at just 18 months old, I can run 26.2 miles. I’m fundraising not just for Liam, but for every child who has received, is receiving, or will need care at Lurie Children’s. ❤️ Donate to Team Liam: events.luriechildrens.org/marathon-tea... #ChicagoMarathon

🚀 New DevRel Deep Dive just dropped! @lotte and me walk through contributing to an open source (!) Umbraco Cloud site, deploying it to live. We want to establish a great workflow for contributions and encourage you to get involved to make open source Cloud […] [Original post on cultiv.social]

Come on England!!!!

Pepsi Max is better than Coke Zero and Diet Coke. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

Over the summer I'm not planning to travel much, but if you want a remote presentation or workshop for your company, please get in touch.

Want to update your #umbraco wardrobe? Well, it's free UK Shipping this weekend on the community swag store! 👕No code required, discount applied to your basket. umbracocommunity.store

Really enjoyed this episode of the #UnhandledException with @wildermuth.com and @danclarke.com - love story episodes like this :-) Worth a listen unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0077-s...

And that was that - I'm exhausted, elated, and excited for next time! Thank you to all at Umbraco who made it a really special week!

Day one of Codegarden was amazing (although it was day 3 for me at HQ) - the always-energetic Andy and Carla did an brilliant job as always to bring a great day to a close. Bring on Day 2 (4)

If you're in Manchester, you should come along to eat some pizza and throw things at me.

Went to twitter for the first time in about 2 months ..... ... I didn't make it past the first page. Not a single piece of content, all Ads, and some pretty dodgy ones at that. Project BinFire is complete. Sad times

Just a reminder, because I was just reminded myself, that your .NET 8 Maui projects are end of life on the 14th of May. If you haven't already, please make sure you upgrade! dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platfo...

Following a conference busy May, you can find me at some other conferences up to the end of the year: DevSum, Stockholm (11-13 June) devsum.se re:connect, Poole (4 July) reconnectconference.co.uk GOTO Copenhagen (30 September-1 October) gotocph.com/2025 (1/3)

Excited to announce that the next podcast episode has just dropped! I was joined by the amazing @maddymontaquila.net to chat about the also-amazing .NET Aspire!!! 🥳🎙️🔥 Such a fun episode, covering A LOT of stuff! unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0076-d... #dotnet #dotnet-aspire

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I save a few of the excellent talks I’ve seen over the years and this is one I keep coming back to - Technical Neglect by @kevlin.bsky.social - timeless and particularly useful as I a about to embark on a big “legacy” refactor youtu.be/9iLxR1h2208?...

After an insanely busy week with DDD South West finishing, I thought I'd write up a quick post based on a few conversations I had during the run up and at the event itself lnkd.in/gxpV55yk

🎮Midi Birds: Playing games with .NET MAUI with @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social! Can MIDI controllers, birdsong & a clown wig make the perfect game show? Find out! 📅 Tue May 20th, 18:00-21:00 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, Manchester 🔊 No prior knowledge needed!

Final Thank you to one of our favourite conferences and a supporter of DDD South West, @ndcconferences.com , who this year will be supporting us and giving away a prize of a ticket to NDC London 2026!

Just two days to go and we’ll be here with #DddSW2025!

Two days to go until #DDDSW 2025 and we have to thank our next fantastic sponsor - iOAssociates who have been a long-time supporter of the tech community in the South West! #DDDSW2025

Yes indeed I will. And am very much looking forward to it! See you there?

🎟️ Early bird tickets for #Codegarden 2025 end on May 1st ⌛️ Don't miss out on the best price for this year's 20th anniversary edition: umbra.co/CG-Earlybird... #Umbraco

With 4 tracks, 170+ guests and speakers, we need some help from the community, so we're looking for a few volunteers on Saturday to help with time management at DDDSW 2025. If you're free and would like to come along, and are able to help out please get in touch! Thank you🙏❤️

With just three days to go, we need to say thanks to all our sponsors and today we're grateful to the UK Hydrographic Office, who are a sponsor who have returned for another year. Come meet them and say hi, and spend an awesome day learning tech and speaking to amazing people! #DDDSW2025

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Speaker Tees have arrived, Speaker meals booked, Venue all good - just over a week to go for #DDDSW and We're all getting very excited! It's going to be such an AWESOME year! Sadly, ticket all gone. If you have a ticket and can't make it, please release it so someone else can!

With only 4 days to go until DDD South West 2025, all our tickets are sold out and we have quite a waiting list! This is brilliant of course, but if for any reason you aren't able to come, and you have a ticket please release it so someone else can Thank You 🙏❤️

We couldn't put on these awesome events without our fantastic sponsors, and we'd like to thank Howden insurance! Come and meet them, and all our wonderful speakers at DDD South West on the 26th of April

We're excited to be sponsoring @dddsouthwest.bsky.social on April 26th in Bristol! 🥳 Join us to talk Umbraco with our community people including co-organiser and #Umbraco MVP @carlcod.es and @lottepitcher.bsky.social, who'll be speaking on “Successfully Navigating Open Source Waters”🤩 #DDDSouthWest

The countdown has begun - T minus 10 days! #DDDSW #DDDSW2025

Super useful!

If you often say "wow I relate to developers" then I have the perfect job for you Developer Relations role just listed! There's also a bunch of other recent additions on the jobs page bsky.social/about/join

Spotted at my local supermarket on the community library shelf. For anyone who wants to feel as old as me, because I remember using this!!

Feeling the pain of Impostor phenomenon? Watch this talk from @rendle.dev - it's one of the most engaging, honest and wonderful talks you'll watch - earlier this year at @ndcconferences.com I saw it live, and just re-watched it - it's brilliant! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL2p...

A great read about the .NET Team's aims with Aspire as a platform for reusable infrastructure

AutoMapper and MediatR going commercial and .NET goes nuts www.jimmybogard.com/automapper-a...

Ooh - A new C# SDK for MCP from Microsoft! Now to find the time to play with it!

Kitboga on youtube doing fantastic things - an army of AI Bots just to tie up call centres, absolutely love it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDpo...

Finally time to wipe some partitions and install windows 11 on my desktop!

It's almost time for @mauiday.net but time is running out to grab a ticket to this free day-long event! www.eventbrite.nl/e/net-maui-d...