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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 30/05/2026

Never really liked him (music taste wise), but he's now one of my favourite American people!!

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 17/04/2026

Progressive Disclosure is a design principle that has applications everywhere from games to teaching to API design to even, yes, how you structure your code for your coding agents and agent teams. ardalis.com/optimizing-a... #ai #claude #copilot #agents #agentteams

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Optimizing AI Agents with Progressive Disclosure

Learn how to apply the principle of Progressive Disclosure to AI agent design, reducing wasted context window tokens through well-structured AGENTS.md files, focused MCP servers, and skills with conci...

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 11/03/2026

Suffering from Primitive Obsession? Vogen has now cured nearly 4,500,000 poor souls; the inflicted, who used to cling onto their ints and strings everywhere they went and shoehorning them into every situation. Break free-do it today! github.com/SteveDunn/Vo... #primitiveobsession #dotnet #software

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 23/11/2025

@jetbrains.com - what's happening with Writerside? First it was a standalone project (which was great). Then it was an IDE plugin (not so great), and now it's not available in the latest Rider IDEs (terrible). How do I update my documentation? #jetbrains #writerside

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 09/11/2025

Glad I left that shit show! May he gather enough wealth to fully enter oblivion!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 30/10/2025

For those playing #pacman on #google today, here's a version in #dotnet #blazor #webassembly that is faithful to most things in the original (except the kill screen on level 256!) stevedunn.github.io/PacManBlazor/

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PacMan in Blazor WebAssembly

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 24/10/2025

Jeez, some of those have a lot of code. I guess that doesn't come across well on audio...?

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 22/10/2025

Oof! Ok, I'll get the first two rounds! 🍻🍻

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 22/10/2025

Completely understand. Vogen's snapshot tests over all the permutations of conversions takes ages!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 22/10/2025

I'll get the first round, no problem! I'm my defense, I only use primitives at the boundaries.

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NimblePros @nimblepros.com · 12/10/2025

Trying to learn a domain can be challenging. Learn how the business talks about their domain by documenting their stories. 📝 Get our on-demand Domain Storytelling webinar: mailchi.mp/nimblepros/domain-storyt… #DDDesign #UbiquitousLanguage

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Alvin Ashcraft @alvinashcraft.com · 12/10/2025

I lost my dad to cancer in early August while I was at VSLive in Redmond, WA and wasn't able to present my WinUI session. If you were there and had in on your schedule for the week, you can still get my slides and demo projects on GitHub: buff.ly/Q9IpKiR #vslive #windowsdev #winui #dotnet #csharp

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Get Started with WinUI - VSLive at MSHQ 2025

Get all the slides and samples from my presentations on GitHub.

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 08/10/2025

My speaking tour kicks off this morning with #jetbrains #dotnet Days Online in about 90 minutes. I’ll be doing a quick 45-minute talk on Clean Architecture. Other talks happening now! lp.jetbrains.com/dotnet-days-...

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JetBrains .NET Days Online 2025

Join us on October 8-9, 2025 for a free virtual event bringing together the most influential people in the .NET space to talk about topics they’re passionate about, including .NET Aspire, Blazor, and ...

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 17/09/2025

New version of Vogen with three great contributions from the community! github.com/SteveDunn/Vo... #dotnet #.net #csharp #ddd #primitiveobsession #cavey

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 05/09/2025

Amsterdam? Weird innit. Gets weirder... 😁

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 14/08/2025

New version of Intellenum; intelligent enums backed by a source generator for fast lookups and switching. This release contains improved `[Try]FromName` with case-insensitivity and culture awareness with a contribution from a new community member! \o/ github.com/SteveDunn/In... #csharp #dotnet

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 14/08/2025

New version of Vogen, with help from 4 new contributors! Better OpenApi support and extensibility for generated EFCore converters, as well as better compatibility with netstandard consumers. #dotnet #ddd #csharp

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 26/07/2025

Out of all of the possible Gods, some people believe in one less God. Ricky Gervais I think... Wise words...

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 23/07/2025

Rather futile. I recently introduced permutation tests, which proved that, despite 90% coverage, we tested just a small fraction of possible paths through the code.

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 23/07/2025

Oof! Thanks for the info. I'll take a look. I knew there were issues on the iPhone. Never heard of Vivaldi, but it'd be nice if the premise of this technology were true, and if not, fix it.

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 23/07/2025

That's great to hear. It's a shame it's a difficult mechanic to handle on touch a screen. No problem in the 80's with a joystick (and a cigarette holder next to it!)

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 23/07/2025

Very kind, thank you!

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Jeremy D. Miller (The Shade Tree Developer) @jeremydmiller.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Re-upping this paper from @jamesshore.bsky.social (hope that's him): www.jamesshore.com/v2/projects/... This was influential on the direction that Wolverine has ended up taking.

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James Shore: Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 23/07/2025

Thanks, I'll take a read. It's an interesting subject and something I wrote on a while back dunnhq.com/posts/2024/p...

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Prefer test-doubles over mocking frameworks

This post looks at the benefits of test-doubles over mocking frameworks

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 18/07/2025

Very nice indeed! Well done!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 18/07/2025

It didn't work out despite *that* hammer?! Perhaps you needed a 10x chair-putter-togetherer! Or 50 normal ones... 😁

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 10/07/2025

Can you use more than 1 alt tag? I do think we need another, similar, tag: "image-generation-proompt"

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 09/07/2025

that's great, both the performance and the visuals!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 07/07/2025

No. Fucking. Way?!!1 😆 In my mind, I'm running through other industries where people blindly did what AI told them... Software Slop is by far the safest!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 07/07/2025

Or, for commands at least, put the command *in* the handler (or vice versa)

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 07/07/2025

Another benefit of pairing: you also learn about the tooling. I had a pair (about 25 years ago) who took my mouse and put it upside down just out of arms reach. *The* best way to learn keyboard shortcuts!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 01/07/2025

24% are unsure. That's the figure they want to 'improve' with reduced education (or death due to health care).

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David Fowler @davidfowl.com · 30/06/2025

Finally got it working! A reusable deployment pipeline defined in C# that can take any aspire project and deploy it to a VM with ssh and docker. #dotnet #aspire github.com/davidfowl/As...

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 30/06/2025

Fantastic! Does it also deploy the dashboard and other Aspire bits? Does it extend Aspire beyond a tool/platform for just the development environment. Let's call it "Transpire"?!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account. But he didn't. Don't RT 🤣

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Jason Bock @jasonbock.net · 21/06/2025

Random.Code() live coding stream - doing more analyzer work with numeric literals in C#! #dotnet #csharp www.youtube.com/watch?v=AesK...

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Michael Washington @adefwebserver.com · 21/06/2025

I will be speaking at 9:00am (PST)

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 11/06/2025

Amazing. And don't even think of buying a new car with their extortionate 'first year ' or 'premium' tax. If it's old and thirsty, then it's probably polluting less than a new and less thirsty model. It's not about pollution, no more than it was about "roads" when it was called road tax!

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 05/06/2025

Delighted that Vogen has exceeded 2,000,000 downloads! - that's at least 2 million cases of primitive obsession *CURED*! The latest release contains contributions from three great members of the community! github.com/SteveDunn/Vo... #dotnet #ddd #primitiveobsession #bestpractices #csharp #roslyn

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 03/06/2025

I've been used to some quite archaic things dating back to original ASP (where you could append a URL with :$$data and actually get the page source!). Since then ASP.NET, MVC, PHP. I'm mainly backend, and so Blazor fits nicely with its mixture of back and front end.

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 03/06/2025

I've found the complete opposite. I suppose it depends on what you're used to.

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Steve Dunn @dunnhq.com · 24/05/2025

You can also mark them as UsedImplicitly. Or PublicApi. I often create a DtoAttribute which uses the MeansImplicitUse attribute. All from Jetbrains.Annotations

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