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From the archives... What's New in .NET Aspire 9.1 barretblake.dev/posts/development/2… #aspire #dotnet

Now to learn about how they developed the #CloudAISummit2026 website using GitHub Spec-Kit with Kevin Kevin Grossnicklaus

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 8h

Next up is some .NET configuration with Kevin Griffin. #CloudAISummit2026

Slide with Kevin griffins face and talk title

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 9h

John Papa sharing wisdom on using Ai effectively at #CloudAISummit2026 keynote

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 10h

Almost time for the #CloudAISummit2026 keynote with John Papa. Cool stuff

Conference center ballroom at Ameristar Casino

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 10h

Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimag… Credit: Robert Eder

Explanation: Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 is found within the boundaries of the head strong constellation Aries. Some 100 million light-years beyond the stars and nebulae of our Milky Way galaxy, the island universe is an enormous 200,000 light-years across. Also known as NGC 772, it sports a prominent, outer spiral arm in this detailed cosmic portrait. Tracking along sweeping dust lanes and lined with young blue star clusters, Arp 78's overdeveloped spiral arm is pumped-up by galactic-scale gravitational tides. Interactions with its brightest companion galaxy, the more compact NGC 770 seen directly below the larger spiral, are likely responsible. Embedded in faint star streams revealed in the deep telescopic exposure, NGC 770's fuzzy, elliptical appearance contrasts nicely with spiky foreground Milky Way stars. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. Tomorrow's picture: a harvest

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 22h

From the Visual Studio blog... In case you missed it earlier... Visual Studio September Update – Power Your Workflow with Your Model devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio… #VisualStudio #Agent #BYOM #GitHubCopilot

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 29/09/2026

Satellite view of Ohio — 2026-09-28 Imagery: MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-84… Imagery: NASA GIBS #satellite #NASA #EarthObservation

Satellite image of Ohio captured on 2026-09-28 using MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor imagery from NASA GIBS

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 29/09/2026

From the Visual Studio blog... Visual Studio September Update – Power Your Workflow with Your Model devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio… #VisualStudio #Agent #BYOM #GitHubCopilot

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 29/09/2026

From the .NET blog... In case you missed it earlier... Build Agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/build… #dotnet #AI #ASPNETCore #Aspire #Blazor #csharp #AGUI #AgenticUI #MicrosoftAgentFramework #MicrosoftFoundry

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 28/09/2026

Cosmic Latte: The Average Color of the Universe assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimag… Credit: Karl Glazebrook & Ivan Baldry (JHU)

Explanation: What color is the universe? More precisely, if the entire sky were smeared out, what color would the final mix be? This whimsical question came up when trying to determine what stars are commonplace in nearby galaxies. The answer, depicted here, is a conditionally perceived shade of beige. In computer parlance: #FFF8E7. To determine this, astronomers computationally averaged the light emitted by one of the larger samples of galaxies analyzed: the 200,000 galaxies of the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The resulting cosmic spectrum has some emission in all parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, but a single perceived composite color. This color has become much less blue over the past 10 billion years, indicating that redder stars are becoming more prevalent. In a contest to better name the color, notable entries included skyvory, univeige, and the winner: cosmic latte. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions Tomorrow: APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod Tomorrow's picture: sky swirl

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 26/09/2026

Satellite view of Ohio — 2026-09-25 Imagery: MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-84… Imagery: NASA GIBS #satellite #NASA #EarthObservation

Satellite image of Ohio captured on 2026-09-25 using MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor imagery from NASA GIBS

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 26/09/2026

From the .NET blog... In case you missed it earlier... AG-UI Protocol now has a first-class .NET SDK devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/ag-ui… #dotnet #AI #ASPNETCore #AGUI #AIagents #MicrosoftAgentFramework #MicrosoftExtensionsAI

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 25/09/2026

Globular Cluster Omega Centauri apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2609/NGC51… Credit: Javier O. Cadenas Parra

Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of 15,000 light-years it's the largest and brightest of 200 or so known globular clusters that roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though most star clusters consist of stars with the same age and composition, the enigmatic Omega Cen exhibits the presence of different stellar populations with a spread of ages and chemical abundances. In fact, Omega Cen may be the remnant core of a small galaxy merging with the Milky Way. With a yellowish hue, Omega Centauri's red giant stars are easy to pick out in this sharp telescopic view. A two-decade-long exploration of the dense star cluster with the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed evidence for a massive black hole near the center of Omega Centauri. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 24/09/2026

The Ghosts of Five Supernovas apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2609/5SNR_… Credit: Stephane Vetter, Yann Sainty Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)

The ghosts of five supernovas haunt this extraordinary image. It was acquired at Oukaïmeden Observatory in Morocco with approximately 200 hours of observations and shows a large patch of the sky, equivalent to the area of one thousand full moons tiled together, in the constellation of Auriga (the charioteer). From left to right, the five supernova remnants visible across the field are G181.1+9.5, G182.4+4.3, G179.0+2.6, G180.0−1.7 (Sh2-240, the Spaghetti Nebula), and G178.2−4.2. They are highlighted in the annotated image, together with open cluster M37 and the Tadpole Nebula. As each explosion expanded into space, it created a growing shell of shocked gas and delicate filamentary structures shown in red (hydrogen) and blue (oxygen), respectively. These ancient stellar explosions happened independently; they are at various distances up to about several thousands of light-years away from Earth and have estimated ages up to tens of thousands of years old. Early humans may have witnessed them as bright new stars, fading over weeks or months. APOD's email for image submissions has changed. Please see: APOD Submissions. APOD's main NASA site is moving : From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 24/09/2026

From the .NET blog... In case you missed it earlier... Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September 23, 2026 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/micro… #dotnet #NuGet #certificates #packagesigning #Security

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 23/09/2026

New post from my blog... In case you missed it earlier... AI Wrote the Code. Now Who Owns the Architecture? barretblake.dev/posts/development/2… #ai #architecture

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 23/09/2026

From the .NET blog... Microsoft is updating its author-signing certificate starting September 23, 2026 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/micro… #dotnet #NuGet #certificates #packagesigning #Security

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 23/09/2026

Satellite view of Ohio — 2026-09-22 Imagery: MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-84… Imagery: NASA GIBS #satellite #NASA #EarthObservation

Satellite image of Ohio captured on 2026-09-22 using MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor imagery from NASA GIBS

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 23/09/2026

New post from my blog... AI Wrote the Code. Now Who Owns the Architecture? barretblake.dev/posts/development/2… #ai #architecture

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 23/09/2026

From the .NET blog... In case you missed it earlier... Creating a memory dump in C# devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/creat… #dotnet #Async #Debugging #VisualStudio #csharp #memorydump

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 23/09/2026

From the Visual Studio blog... In case you missed it earlier... Today I will… debug a production crash devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio… #Debug #Productivity #VisualStudio #async #Debugging #parallelstacks

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 22/09/2026

If you're around the middle of the country, come see me speak next week at the Cloud & AI Summit 2026 conference. I'm giving two talks: One on GitHub Spec-Kit and the other on OpenTelemetry. Get the details and tickets at: www.cloudandaisummit... #cloudaisummit2026

Promo for OpenTelemetry talk at Cloud & AI Summit in St. Charles, MO Sep 30-Oct 2

Promo for Spec-Kit talk at Cloud & AI Summit in St. Charles, MO Sep 30-Oct 2

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 22/09/2026

Lol... the next game will be Fable Horizon. #FableHorizon

reimagining of a sports car as a fantasy role-playing character

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 22/09/2026

Chance Triple Alignment: Plane, Space Station, Sun apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2609/Plane… Credit: Petr Horalek / Inst. Physics Opava

This shot captured an unexpected silhouette. Which is it? It isn't the sunspots, the small dark regions caused by concentrated magnetic fields visible around the Sun's bright disk. Sunspots typically last for weeks and were expected, since these spots were seen previously. It isn’t the International Space Station (ISS), the small dark structure on the middle left. This is because the featured picture was planned with sub-second timing to record the iconic structure passing before the Sun. It is the airplane. Just as this exposure was taking place in June, from Prasek in the Czech Republic, an airplane began its own miniature partial eclipse. The result is this triply aligned image of our Sun. The photographer estimates that the chance of any random Sun image containing silhouettes of both a space station and an airplane, from that location, is about 30 million to one. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 21/09/2026

Really looking forward to speaking at #MomentumDev in Cincy on October 15, alongside Sarah "Sadukie" Dutkiewicz, @tdesseyn.bsky.social, @guy.dev, @thesoccerdev.bsky.social, @chrisdemars.net, and a host of other amazing peeps.

title card for talk: spec-driven development with github spec-kit, at Momentum developer conference 2026

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 20/09/2026

Satellite view of Ohio — 2026-09-19 Imagery: MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-84… Imagery: NASA GIBS #satellite #NASA #EarthObservation

Satellite image of Ohio captured on 2026-09-19 using MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor imagery from NASA GIBS

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 20/09/2026

From the archives... How I Use AI To Help With My Blog barretblake.dev/posts/videos/2026/0… #youtube

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 20/09/2026

Analemma over the Callanish Stones apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2609/Calla… Credit: Giuseppe Petricca

If you went outside at the same time every day and took a picture that included the Sun, how would the Sun's position change? A visual answer to that question is an analemma, a composite image taken from the same spot at the same time over the course of a year. The featured analemma was composed from images taken every few days at noon near the village of Callanish in the Outer Hebrides in Scotland, UK. In the foreground are the Callanish Stones, a stone circle built around 2700 BC during humanity's Bronze Age. It is not known if the placement of the Callanish Stones has or had astronomical significance. The ultimate causes for the figure-8 shape of this and all analemmas are the tilt of the Earth axis and the ellipticity of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. At the solstices, the Sun will appear at the top or bottom of an analemma. The featured image was taken near the December solstice and so the Sun appears near the bottom. Equinoxes, however, correspond to analemma middle points -- not the intersection point. In two days there will be an equinox ("equal night"), when day and night are equal over all of planet Earth. Many cultures celebrate a change of season at an equinox. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 19/09/2026

New post from my blog... In case you missed it earlier... Your PC Is a Build Agent: Part 2 barretblake.dev/posts/development/2… #githubactions #docker #cicd #security #devops

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 18/09/2026

From the archives... New Video - Power Automate Desktop - Deleting Tweets barretblake.dev/posts/development/2… #flow #powerautomate #powerautomatedesktop

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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 18/09/2026

Messier 33: The Triangulum Galaxy apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2609/m33m1… Credit: George Chatzifrantzis

The small, northern constellation Triangulum harbors this magnificent face-on spiral galaxy, Messier 33. Its popular names include the Pinwheel Galaxy or just the Triangulum Galaxy. M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other's grand spiral star systems. As for the view from the Milky Way, this sharp telescopic image shows off M33's blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along the galaxy's loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 5 o'clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33's population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe. APOD's main NASA site is moving: From apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod

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