ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 9hAnd just because it's kind of required these days, I do have one talk involving AI: Designing Software for Agentic Development. This one is definitely a moving target as things are changing rapidly. I expect to be updating things right up until the talk starts. Which is TOTALLY out of character 🤣 100
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 9hMy other talks are on... Antipatterns and Worst Practices! Always fun to talk about things that didn't work out and what NOT to do. 100
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 9hWho wants to come to the Netherlands next month? Check out TechoramaNL! I'll be giving a full day software architecture workshop and presenting, along with a ton of amazing speakers! 112
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 29/09/2026Checking out the ISC2 meeting tonight at TrustedSec in Fairlawn 010
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 19/08/2026This is where the Circuit Breaker pattern is useful, to avoid retry-flooding when a service that was down attempts to come back online. GitHub performed a manual circuit break to resolve the issue. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/... 100
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 17/08/2026Also sharing this in case anybody wants to steal it for future use... #claude #ai imgflip.com/i/az131v 081
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 28/07/2026Anyone else notice that #claude code chews up CPU while its idle in #vscode? The chat is inactive, it's finished its work or it's waiting for a response to a question, but the CPU is spinning madly and fans are running to cool it. 110
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 14/07/2026Typically we expect behavior to live in the implementation, not the interface, so a change to the default behavior of the method seems like it would override the interface. But the default is *part of* the contract. So the interface wins if that's how the method is invoked. Such as via typical DI. 350
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 14/06/2026Aww, they built Donnie a play mat for his birthday. How precious! 0161
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 13/06/2026Thursday night’s #Metallica #Budapest poster art was excellent. 010
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 23/05/2026Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello was great - see them if you can. 093
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 07/05/2026Hey! Try out the new Agents App! Also: The Agents App is deprecated! 161
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 30/04/2026Claude is continuing to struggle with uptime... status.claude.com #ai #claude 232
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 29/04/2026This week GitHub Copilot pricing changes were announced, continuing the trend of price increases across all AI products that I anticipated in my recent article about AI Benefits and Costs. I've already had to amend the article 5 times this month to note increases... ardalis.com/ai-benefits-... #AI 4103
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 17/04/2026Save $76 and have indefinite access to the courses - no subscription necessary! This is I think the best deal Dometrain runs outside of Black Friday. 000
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 07/04/2026These are spectacular. I wonder what the EXIF for location says on the photos... 🤔 www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... #nasa #moon #artemisii 1101
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 26/03/2026Upcoming flight meal choice, I misread at first as "Karma"... Really don't want to risk later digestive issues and think "I guess it was just karma..." 110
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 26/03/2026Hey friends, if you want to see a great line-up of speakers one day only in Columbus, Ohio in a few weeks, I have a special deal for you: Stir Trek 2025 (stirtrek.com) Code: SPEAKERFRIENDS_2026 Price: $199 per ticket ($255 otherwise) Registration: events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-20... 256
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 26/03/2026Oberlin University Luddites take to their typewriter: 110
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 14/03/2026Who could have predicted the Strait of Hormuz would be a problem if war erupted with Iran? 081
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 28/02/2026I developed a tool that will generate these diagrams for any dotnet app that's using a modular monolith style of architecture. 220
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 15/02/2026Of course they will! It’s just about the only ew training data that exists outside of private corporate data. And also: ardalis.com/llms-need-ma... 110
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 09/02/2026Their error links to their X account which hasn't had a post in years - they should probably update that to their BlueSky at this point, right @github.com ? Anyway, they seem to be aware of the issue per githubstatus.com: 050
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 09/02/2026@github.com is struggling today... must be a super bowl hangover... 130
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 27/01/2026How is artificial intelligence and the rise of #AI going to affect our satisfaction in our roles? I thought this was an interesting way of framing it from my devBetter coaching group: What do you think? If you're an engineer, do you get satisfaction from crafting or delivering, or both? 240
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 22/01/2026A busy day on dometrain.com for my students: #dotnet 030
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 22/01/2026There really is a lost art in making poetic, fortune-cookie like error messages... #VisualStudio #VSIX #dev 5462
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 20/01/2026LOL, @fitbit.bsky.social sends me an email with a link to view my friends leaderboard, clicking it sends me through a bunch of hoops including a windowsphone.com domain before winding up on a random microsoft error page. 020
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 19/01/2026It’s hard to parse “0.00001%” so let me point out that is 1 in 10 million. Our population is roughly 350 million. 350M / 10M = 35 35 individuals now control 12% (and climbing) of national income. Tell me my math is wrong. This is insane. 2163
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 09/12/2025And here's mine. I think it's a bit weird these aren't a January thing but hey blame Spotify I guess... 040
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 07/12/2025My initial joy is shattered by the pop-up that shows up and says it won’t work, contact Microsoft support. (note I’m leaving out a whole side quest in which I sign in using GitHub) 110
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 07/12/2025Then it wants to verify me with the Authenticator app for MFA. No worries. It gives a 2-digit number. The Auth app pings me that an Auth request is pending. Brilliant, this might just work, I think. I switch apps, enter digits, look at camera which Face Ids me (twice). I switch back. 100
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 21/11/2025Seems Atlassian is having trouble this morning (despite status page being all green): #atlassian #jira #trello 010
ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 18/11/2025C'mon c'mon c'mon @github.com we're rooting for ya! www.githubstatus.com 041