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Okay how did Ellie end up on an island a mile away instead of back on the mainland in #TLOU season 2 finale? My wife and I couldn’t get over it lol. The episode was kind of.. meh?!

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 hits all the emotions with the music.

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Property rights would kill the industry. Does that tell you what the industry is, finally??

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One can choose to do science or choose to do politics. If you choose science then you speak what you think is true, regardless of how cynical political actors may use it. That’s the job. One can also do politics, but then you’ve given up doing science. (Yes yes, Weber said it better)

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We’re about to take C# to the next level! #dotnet #csharp

submitted 30 days ago • 27 comments

C# single file scripts like Python/Powershell is being teased by @davidfowl.com. A potential future without yaml scripts and tf/bicep files? Yes please all c# no take backsies.

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I'll be the broken record: Copy pasting blindly from your favorite LLM ain't great for learning. Juniors often trust AI-generated answers too quickly, which can cut out a lot of the actual learning opportunity! The part where you need to: - Make mistakes - Get stuck - Then get unstuck.

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#booksky

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Most Web3 LinkedIn profile ever.

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Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

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A good team will inevitably be destroyed by bad management.

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The blue check marks are so nice to see here. Finally early 2010s Twitter is back.

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#dotnetconf Does the GitHub Copilot Upgrade Assistant consider licensing when upgrading packages?

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NuGet restore has been rewritten, resulting in up to 16 times faster build time!💥🚀 Read more about the technical details and the NuGet team's process of building the new algorithm in this blog post: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/rewri...

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#NoKings

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The amount of scummy mail you get when you register any business is insane. At the VERY bottom of this paper does it say that this is actually spam. The envelope looked very official too.

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Here’s part 2 of 2 on testing and local development with .NET projects without dockerfiles - this time with .NET Aspire and TUnit. From setting up your project to adding EF Core and creating a test base, it’s all there. Plus, a handy GitHub workflow is included. www.bensampica.com/post/aspiret...

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Aspire 9.2 new dashboard features, day 11: 'WithHttpCommand' is now a first-class citizen, allowing you to invoke HTTP endpoints from the dashboard 🌏 The example below demonstrates a command that calls the '/reset-db' endpoint on a resource. #dotnet #aspire

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Reverse the tariffs and tax the billionaires

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I wrote a short post on using Testcontainers in .NET: www.bensampica.com/post/testcon... If you’re doing tests and still relying on mocks or manual setup, this is worth a look. It lets you spin up SQL Server, Azure Storage, CosmosDb, etc. in containers during your test runs or during local dev.

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Anyway, he just lost.

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The fourth episode of the Wheel of Time Season 3 was incredible. I won’t spoil anything but the portrayal of Rand going to Rhuidean was incredible!!

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I'm super happy with the API that we landed on for input validation support in minimal APIs. Sample app + implementation overview is up at github.com/captainsafia....

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Next Thursday we're excited to host @softwareascraft.com! Please join us for Virtual .NET@Night: Focus, Flow, and Cold Coffee: ADHD-Driven Dev Practice www.meetup.com/iadnug/event...

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How it started

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Just blogged: Introducing AZDOI, a .NET tool designed to document Azure DevOps organizations by generating Markdown files. This tool helps keep track of your projects and repositories. Read more: www.devlead.se/posts/2025/2... #DevOps #Azure #DotNet #DevOpsDocs

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I can't make these 👀large enough

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Casey’s just announced a mandatory 5 day RTO. If you’re looking for great #dotnet engineers be on the lookout for the best folks to jump ship.

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This Thursday at Noon over Zoom we've got @bensampica.com talking to us about "Devolve Web Apps Back To Web 1.0 with HTMX + Minimal APIs." Sign up below! 👇👇 www.meetup.com/iadnug/event...

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Been thinking about power lately. 1. Force is the ultimate power to achieve your goal. 2. Capital can buy force, and always has. 3. Alliances pool/share power. 4. Power compounds if not checked. 5. When force is how things get done, only those with force power get things done.

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I'm excited to be speaking at the Iowa .NET User Group on March 6th about #dotnet minimal api's and #htmx. See you there 😎 www.meetup.com/iadnug/event...

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The year is 1999. You've just finished the installation and hit that .exe. You never knew it at the time, but this was destined to be, one of the greatest pc gaming experiences in your life.

submitted 140 days ago • 132 comments

Ah another Saturday of having some free time and scrolling a potential list of games to play but never choosing one 😩

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