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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 27/04/2025

Fuel Your Software Engineering With Purpose - Interview With William Ray I had the pleasure to sit down with William Ray and hear about his career journey so far. It's not what you'd expect.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 25/04/2025

One of my biggest pieces of advice for junior software engineers: Ask questions. Stop worrying about looking dumb. Seriously! Your colleagues want you to level up fast. Your colleagues want you to be able to contribute. Your colleagues want you to be successful in your role.

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MartinDotNet @martindotnet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Shifting Observability Left is the wrong framing. We're not proposing that you "move" the responsibility to dev from operations. The idea is that "both" teams care about it and put the effort in to make it awesome. From instrumentation to pipelines, it's not one team, it's everybody.

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Shawn Wildermuth @wildermuth.com · 25/04/2025

Any #Aspire people on here? Has anyone had a way a deploy two different builds as two separate Resources? Maybe only possible as containers?

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Dan Clarke @danclarke.com · 25/04/2025

Just recorded the next #UnhandledException podcast episode with the amazing @maddymontaquila.net!! Chatting about the also-amazing #dotnet Aspire!!! Wow - we covered SO MUCH STUFF! Can't wait for this to be published 😊🎙️

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 25/04/2025

Some software engineers never get the opportunity to work closely with customers. When I sat down to talk with Jade Wilson, it was great to hear that her and her team DO spend time working very closely with customers.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 15/04/2025

Leverage the subject matter experts on your team, but do your homework! If you're trying to build an understanding of an area of the code base, a product, or a service, you likely have teammates that know these areas very well.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Pocket Casts here. I've had it since before they went subscription based, so I'm grandfathered in to the features I need.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It's mostly written out lots of model classes, data access code, and basic wiring up of UI to services, all boring stuff that I always get bogged down in because I lose interest in typing property names over and over.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I recently realized that, for some things, I don't care how fast the AI does it. Just for fun I've had Copilot grinding on a list of features I gave it. It probably only has 2-3 hours of work over 5 days. A few times a day, I remember and flip over to prompt it to the next step.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 30/03/2025

Exploring the TryXXX pattern for Enums in CSharp If you've written CSharp code, you've probably come across situations where we have: - A method called Something() - A variation of the method called TrySomething() So what's the deal with this?

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 30/03/2025

Fixing Autofac Circular Dependencies in .NET C#

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

My wife was using our Canon 20D for product photography. It was more work, but the pictures were so much better than her iPhone. I know some people use their phones for stuff like that, but the photos always seemed sterile.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 27/03/2025

Have you seen these topics yet? 👀👀 Here's a collection of some of my more popular posts from LinkedIn. They seemed to get attention from others, so you might find them interesting!

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

You don't appreciate how rough it is until you have to be "on" all day. It's not just the performance aspect, but also constantly checking the schedule, making sure you get names right, reviewing notes, etc.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 26/03/2025

Interested in reading more about vertical slice architecture? Check out these articles! Here are a collection of articles that I've put together on this topic! Development Style:

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 25/03/2025

I can't write tests anymore without following this layout The triple A approach: - Arrange - Act - Assert Why is this structure helpful? It builds clarity and simplicity into your testing process:

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Or wildly out of date. I double-take every time I see something like "5 new features of C# 10".

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

It's really not that hard either. I'm a compete amateur, but a knowledge of the basic principles of electricity, some YouTube, and a code book gets me where I need to be. I have a retired electrician friend come take a look at some of the more complicated stuff just to be safe.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'm in the middle of rewiring my house, which according to County records, has had decades of work done by licensed electricians. Based on what I've seen, they may have learned enough to pass the test, but they didn't believe any of it.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I'd blame AI, but these people have been writing empty corpo speak nonsense for long enough that they're where AI learned it from.

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jhumelsine.bsky.social @jhumelsine.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

My most recent blog entry - Working Effectively with Legacy Code - where I borrow (steal) Michael Feathers' ideas and put my spin on them. jhumelsine.github.io/2025/03/24/l...

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code

… with all due respect to Michael Feathers in stealing his book title and a lot of his ideas for this blog

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Jimmy Engström @engstromjimmy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My new Blazor course just dropped! 🦝❤️ This time it’s all about Authentication & Authorization in Blazor. Entra ID, Auth0, Individual Accounts—yeah, we cover that. Even our own auth-ready component. Oh, and there’s a 40% birthday discount at Dometrain! Grab it here: dometrain.com/course/from-...

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From Zero to Hero: Authentication & Authorization in Blazor

Learn how to implement authentication and authorization in Blazor

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 22/03/2025

Sometimes learning a code base by looking at code first isn't effective. Depending on the age of the code base and the size of it, diving into the deep end of code can be a bit overwhelming. Personally, I find stepping back from code first to understand systems can be the most valuable.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 21/03/2025

Accessing Record Types on Earlier .NET Versions In C# 9.0 we received access to a great quality of life type called the record. Record types allowed us as dotnet programmers to skip a lot of boiler plate code, thereby saving us time and making code more readable. Wins all around!

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I keep a couple of cheap steaks in the freezer for times like that. I'm not going to waste the good stuff.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

From where I'm sitting, the harder they try, the more developers lean into willful ignorance. They can't win.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 21/03/2025

Documentation can be critical for learning a new system but... 1) It might not be there. 2) It might be there, and it's totally out of date. The good news is that YOU can be the person that helps make onboarding the next person more effective.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 21/03/2025

What's the WebApplicationFactory used for in ASP NET? Read more here: www.devleader.ca/2024/02/09/webappl… #ASPNET #DotNet #CSharp #Testing

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 18/03/2025

What is CQRS and how might it fit into Clean Architecture? Read more here: www.devleader.ca/2024/02/07/cqrs-pa… #DotNet #CSharp #CleanArchitecture

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

One tip that I learned from @gaprogman.com is to put an emoji in my display name. Automated scrapers either can't parse it and output the raw unicode, or include it as is. It's a good way to weed out the bots.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I haven't don't contracting in a long time, but that's ways how I've charged for everything from software to fixing someone's printer.

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I used to take files to school on multiple redundant floppy disks, from separate brands, carried in different cases.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 15/03/2025

Weekly Recap - 2025-03-14 Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Read the article here: www.devleader.ca/2025/03/15/weekly-…

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Interesting. I think I've noticed this somewhat. I often have to start a new chat, if the LLM hallucinates something, or else it will integrate that hallucination into the context and base further output on the hallucination.

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Jamie Taylor @gaprogman.com · 14/03/2025

Hardware friends, please help me figure something out: I have three of 3.5 inch SATA hard drives I'd like to access from a laptop at a moments notice. Is there a thing that lets me do that? I was thinking that a NAS would do it, but I have no idea whether a NAS would let me have discrete drives.

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Justin Grote @posh.guru · 14/03/2025

Is your #PowerShell profile feeling a little sluggish? Add this snippet to your profile to start benchmarking it! Thanks @jakubjares.com for making Profiler. gist.github.com/JustinGrote/...

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Devin Goble @devingoble.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm starting to think that value is not really OK and we shouldn't be asserting that it is.

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Jamie Taylor @gaprogman.com · 13/03/2025

I'm looking for someone who'd love to talk about #dotnetAspire on the show. Send a DM (or whatever they're called on here) or join the show's Discord (dotnetcore.show/discord) and we'll figure out a date and time.

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Dev Leader @devleader.ca · 13/03/2025

Interested in learning more about plugins? Check out these videos! Here are a collection of videos that I've put together on this topic. All full-length. All for free! Autofac: - Loading Plugins With Autofac 2: youtu.be/-pxwL_VD4Uo

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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 12/03/2025

This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)

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NotMyself @notmyself.io · 28/01/2025

Anyone out there familiar with building WinUI apps? I am interested in finding a project on github for a real world application that is more complex than tutorial demos. Have any suggestions?

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