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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/07/2026
Key thing to realize about being the new person is that sometimes people will teach you things because you need to learn, and sometimes they'll teach you things (you already know) because they're learning how to teach, and that's fine
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Iowa .NET User Group @iadnug.org · 05/07/2026
On Thursday July 9 at Noon over Zoom we have @mitchelsellers.bsky.social speaking about "Advanced EF Core: High-Performance Data Access and Temporal Table Strategies" Sign up 👇👇 www.meetup.com/iadnug/event...
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.NET@Noon - Virtual - Advanced EF Core, Thu, Jul 9, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda** This will be a Zoom meeting at Noon 11:50am-12:00pm - Pre-Session Waiting Room 12:00pm-1:00pm - Presentation, JetBrains giveaway # Advanced EF Core: High-Perfo
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
[being murdered in the kitchen] are you serious i just frickin mopped
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 14/06/2026
Having issues with Codex saying “You’ve reached your codex usage limits for code reviews” wrongly and this is exactly the problem with AI support - I went through the chat box once, got a human finally who said I had to go back through the chat box. Then the chat box closes itself as duplicate.
OpenAI support telling me via email to open another ticketAuto closing the second chat
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Gef the Toking Mongoose @geftokingmongoose.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
ok water calm down
A diagram of two hydrogen and one oxygen molecule that looks like a but in revealing black bottoms
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Reddit is undefeated. 😂
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 12/05/2026
Is anyone using Claude/Codex in chrome? If so, what’re you using it for?
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 06/05/2026
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It Is Still My Code, Even When AI Writes It | Ben Sampica
How AI has shifted my development work toward planning, standards, review, and maintaining the mental model of the software I am still responsible for.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 24/04/2026
Are the app stores still anti-web view? For example if I want to have a MAUI app using a WebView pointed at my web application but with limited functionality.
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Barret Blake @barretblake.dev · 15/04/2026
From the .NET blog... In case you missed it earlier... .NET 11 Preview 3 is now available! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne… #dotnet #NETMAUI #ASPNETCore #csharp #EntityFramework #NET11 #Featured
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WSDOT @wsdot.wa.gov · 03/04/2026
Just another beautiful day of being a public servant. Let’s check the DMs — oh.
A screenshot of a direct message that reads: “am I allowed to eat the public roads? They are public and asphalt in concrete taste pretty good.”
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Jorkin B Peanitson @bonerman-inc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
wonderful news everyone i have enabled dlss 5 on 'shower with your dad simulator 2015'
left image: pixelated image of a man in a shower from 'shower with your dad simulator 2015'
right image: isiah mustafa from 'old spice' tv commercials on the beach under a shower wearing a towel
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 14/03/2026
Insurance companies sending out “your year in review” brochures is some dystopian shit
A brochure detailing my health coverage for the year.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"Gartner predicts that by next year, half of the companies that fired workers for AI are going to hire them back. Also, 9 months ago, Microsoft…proclaimed that 30% of their code was written by AI, and since then, we've seen some of the worst software issues at the company in its history." 1/2
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 05/03/2026
I’ve got a feeling a lot of the latter half of 2020’s and early 2030’s is going to be AI cleanup, whether by AI-assisted tools or human intervention. It’ll be the Great Unsloppening.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“1 family. 2 news networks. And a president who treats mergers like loyalty tests with no regard for the public.”
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Marco Bortolin @mbortolin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Aspire Conf - March 23, 2026 aspire.dev/aspireconf/ #aspire #dotnet
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Aspire—Your Stack, Streamlined
Aspire streamlines your development workflow with code-first control, modularity, and observability for distributed applications.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 03/02/2026
Talking about whether AI can replace software developers is the same as talking about whether AI can replace artists, salesmen, or otherwise. There is no replacement for human expression. There is no replacement for human connection.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 30/01/2026
Going to be a little sad seeing her in my yearly rewatches of Home Alone.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 10/01/2026
Volunteering at Pinewood Derby for my Girl Scout troop + service unit in Ankeny today - and of course I’m still on the computer 😛. It’s incredible what a few volunteers and some elbow grease can pull off. Thanks to everyone who showed up early, hauled tracks, and made it a great day for the kids. 🙌
A computer with pinewood derby times, a pinewood derby car, and a derby racetrack in the background.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 08/01/2026
This is the guy that thinks he’s the aryan race.
Stephen Miller looking dopey
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 03/01/2026
Now the AI slop is disrupting retail gaming - or really anyone who needs a computer. www.eurogamer.net/amd-and-nvid...
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AMD and Nvidia will reportedly raise GPU prices "significantly" in 2026
AMD and Nvidia will reportedly raise GPU prices "significantly" in 2026, according to a report by Newsis.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 17/12/2025
A while ago, I wrote about how to automatically deploy a passwordless Azure SQL database server using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and Azure Pipelines. Hot off the press, here’s a similar post for Postgres - using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and GitHub Actions! www.bensampica.com/post/postgre...
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How to automatically deploy a passwordless Azure PostgreSql Server | Ben Sampica
How to create an Azure PostgreSql Server automatically that uses Microsoft Entra authentication, migrates the database using Entity Framework Core, and deploys out the infrastructure automatically wit...
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 16/12/2025
Azure AI Foundry is a hot mess.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 11/12/2025
It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...
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AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What’s Next
YouTube video by JetBrains
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Adam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 14/06/2025
on type safety
Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.
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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
A stylized orange and black image of Sisyphus, rolling a rock on a mountain. The rock has a fake Half-Life 3 logo painted over it.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 21/11/2025
Me irl
Me looking longingly at the last piece of cold torn up cheese pizza
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Ozen the Un-Defeated of the east @unmovablesov.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Also. github.com/Raphire/Win1...
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GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve you...
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11D...
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 11/11/2025
There’s been some great improvements on Minimal APIs support for binding complex objects with FromForm. Any planned support for binding arrays like int[] to respect initialization defaults like an empty array instead. #dotnetconf
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 11/11/2025
I love Aspire but #dotnetconf why did aspire jump from 9.x to 13.x?
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 11/11/2025
Odd to see #dotnet Aspire jump from 9.5.2 to 13.0.0… what’s up with that?
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Laurent Kempé 🚀 @laurentkempe.com · 11/11/2025
.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team! Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
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Download .NET 10.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows) | .NET
.NET 10.0 downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows. .NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 11/11/2025
There are 8 whole people in the entire world who are shocked by this development.
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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
"The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜 #PurpleFriday #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #dahlia
A purple dahlia in a container. Some leaves and another purple dahlia and a yellow flower are partially visible.

Camera: iPhone 15 Pro.

August 2025. Town & Country Village.
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Aspire 💫 @aspire.dev · 27/10/2025
.NET Aspire ❌ Aspire ✅🤌🏼 we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫 join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 27/10/2025
Unbelievable times that this is a serious post.
Master chief in a warthog behind the words “Destroy the Flood”
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Stacy Cashmore @stacy-clouds.net · 26/10/2025
This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it. I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other. youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
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The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 20/10/2025
Evergreen.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 12/10/2025
Can we get Visual Studio for Mac back? Please?! C# dev kit and Rider miss the mark for me.
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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Leadership is a characteristic of an individual. It is NOT a position to which somebody can be appointed.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 21/09/2025
Trying to get the Raspberry Pi GPIO & I2C capabilities to work inside a container has been a “fun” exercise that I’m still failing at. If youre reading this and have expertise or an example, hit me up PLZ 😭.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 15/09/2025
Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on. www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming
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My Mob Programming Journey | Ben Sampica
Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on.
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🐈Rex Parker🐈‍⬛ ✏️ 🧐 @rexparker.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This is the juice
The chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is saying no to Gov. Kim Reynolds' order that flags on public grounds be lowered to half-staff in honor of assassinated conservative figure Charlie Kirk.
Jon Green posted on social media that by his
"personal authority as Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors," the county, home of Iowa City and the University of Iowa, will defy the governor's order.
While condemning Kirk's killing, Green, a Democrat, wrote that he will "not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life's mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only to the mar-ginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.
"Johnson County flags will fly as usual. I will accept any consequence, whether legal or elec-toral, for my decision. It is mine alone," he wrote.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 12/09/2025
With .NET aspire is there a way to force sub-dependencies of containers to only startup when their parents are started? For example, the Aspire Azure Service Bus container requires azure-sql-edge internally. When I place WithExplicitStart on the ServiceBus resource, the edge container still starts.
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 10/09/2025
nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out. No more api keys needed to publish from your release process. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...
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Trusted Publishing
Trusted Publishing on nuget.org
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 04/09/2025
I miss when social media (and the internet in general) had content that its creators thought was actually interesting. The trying-to-grab-attention low-effort content just to game algorithms is so tiring.
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John Cutler @johncutle.fish · 21/08/2025
Do This. Not This. Or ... Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
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Ben Sampica @bensampica.com · 20/08/2025
No slide decks. No status meetings. No “stories.” And somehow, working software (and hardware) still happened.
Me standing at an air monitoring system writing software to configure and read it.
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