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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've always enjoyed books by Adam, especially Think Again, an absolute classic and worth reading multiple times.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 23/05/2026

Tech engineering normalized transparency (status pages, postmortems, bug disclosures) partly to encourage other industries to do the same. Decades later it’s backfired: people hear our issues but not their own industry’s, so they assume engineering is worse rather than more transparent.

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Aspire 💫 @aspire.dev · 07/04/2026

Agents can write code all day, but running and iterating on it? Different story🫠 Aspire 13.2 adds structure and a real feedback loop for agents with code, not Markdown. @maddy.fm is here to share how Aspire gives your agent some bumpers 🎳 🔗 devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/agent...

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

@bradygaster.bsky.social trying out Squad. Use case, migrate a relatively simple razorpages webapp to VueJS. I had already scaffolded one page to check everything was working correctly. Just hit up on a problem with the multi agents, split responsibilities...

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embedding-shapes @emsh.cat · 27/01/2026

How hard can it be to build a browser from scratch for three platforms anyways? Apparently 20K lines of code and ~70 hours from first commit to last. emsh.cat/one-human-on... #llm #llms #ai #codex #openai

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/01/2026

The latest entrant in the coding-agent-constructed web browsers is here, this one by @emsh.cat, and it's REALLY impressive - 3 days of development, 20,000 lines of Rust, no Cargo dependencies and it renders HTML+CSS extremely well simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/27/...

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One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch

embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project - thousands of parallel agents producing ~1.6 million lines of Rust - that they were inspired to take …

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

This piece really really speaks to how I see it

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 17/01/2026

If you're a developer surrounded by people debating the utility of LLMs, you are being misled. The advent of agents decisively settles the conversation. The real question is: how do you ship software that leverages their power? I spent 2025 answering this question networkgames.fyi/the-year-eve...

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The year everything changed

Far from my best years being behind me, it feels as though everything in my life has been leading to this moment: building a completely new category of product where the most useful lessons come not f...

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Subzero temperatures so I've turned the flow temp on the boiler up... But the house is warm at 48C. Not too bad @tomasmcguinness.bsky.social I'm thankful for all the various videos you've done on low flow temps 🙌

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Been having a fun time learning about #mqtt on #azure with event grid. Need to write a couple of blog posts because the docs are a bit lacking in places.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This is why you can't just trust everything #copilot spits out #dotnet

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

@tombuildsstuff.bsky.social @locally.build long flight coming up... Any chance I could try out Locally?

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Would have been cheaper to buy them... But I managed to actually grow some chillies this year 🔥

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

@tombuildsstuff.bsky.social Hiya... I'm still hanging out for an invite 😁

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Frenck | Home Assistant & Smart Home @frenck.social · 28/09/2025

Ever wanted to work on open source full-time? Come join me at the @openhomefoundation.org; we’ve got 5 new roles on @home-assistant.io. 👩‍💼 Program Manager 🐍 Python Engineers ✍️ Technical Writers 🌍 Remote. Open source, every day. Links in replies 👇 #HomeAssistant #OpenSource #SmartHome #Hiring #Jobs

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Aspire 💫 @aspire.dev · 24/09/2025

not just one, but TWO streams this week!!! tomorrow at 7p EST, join us to celebrate the release of #aspire 9.5 (👀👀👀 stay tuned for more info), and for #aspirifridays we're going to try to deploy bingo AGAIN. subscribe!! see you soon! www.youtube.com/watch?v=29zI... www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ck...

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Aspire 9.5 Release Party + Unboxing

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Excellent read and one I completely agree with! SPAs have not delivered on their promises and lead to huge amounts of complexity with very little gain (especially for glorified CRUD applications)

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 07/09/2025

This is a blog post about how to use Aspire to write custom deployment code to deploy a static site. More importantly, it's really about the current shape of deployment abstractions in Aspire and how the space is evolving. blog.safia.rocks/2025/09/07/a... #aspire

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Building custom deployment pipelines with Aspire

A blog post about how to use Aspire to deploy a static site to Azure Storage with Azure Front Door as a CDN and some exploration of Aspire’s evolving deployment abstractions.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

💡💡💡💡🤯🤯

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Running different scenarios past Gemini 2.5 flash and pro...very different responses.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Wooohooo 🙌🎉🚀🚀🚀

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A couple of weeks ago at a company off-site the CEO asked why it was possible to use #ai and #vibe code a PAS in the matter of days but we aren't seeing the same results in the rest of the product... there's the obvious answer about how Greenfield app development is always faster than brownfield...

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Working in #healthtech has many challenges, the team I'm currently in is in the scheduling space. Reducing the problem significantly, we're offering slots to patients, and then automating the booking back into the PAS/EPR. #reducingthebacklog

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

@davidfowl.com any tips on building a AddLazyRabbitMQ() extension for #aspire? Basically I want to wrap AddRabbitMQ but check if there is already a broker running and if so return an IResourceWithConnectionstring instead of starting a new container image of RabbitMQ

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Damian Edwards @damianedwards.com · 14/07/2025

Coming to an ASP.NET Core HTTPS development certificate near you soon...

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Could really do with an #mcp server for #azure verified module #bicep. Unfortunately #copilot assumes a lot and makes lots of mistakes 😣

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 27/06/2025

More AI stuff in another @devbetter.com session this afternoon. We continued building out the dice roller. Tried #visualstudio instead of VS Code for a bit, still using GitHub Copilot Chat in Agent mode. Still Claude Sonnet 4. But it was terrible. Kept deleting most of the file it was "fixing"

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 15/06/2025

I guess this is what we're going to be building instead of code because god knows it doesn't exist today

Features for agent-first CI & testing infrastructure
Simulation-first testing environments. Agent-generated changes need to be verified in ephemeral, sandboxed runtime environments—essentially high-fidelity digital twins of the production system. These simulation layers enable testing code behavior, dependency interactions, and performance characteristics safely, before deployment. In many cases, rather than just sandboxing code, the runtime needs to be fully deterministic to support exhaustive search. This allows agents (or humans) to reliably reproduce failures and iterate safely.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Apart from the below, has anyone cracked getting #dotnet #aspire to work seamlessly across multiple solutions? This is the next big technical challenge I want to tackle, any guidance or tips would be appreciated @davidfowl.com @maddymontaquila.net

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

@martinfowler.com check out www.goatcounter.com a nice alternative to Google Analytics

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GoatCounter – open source web analytics

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Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

AI won’t replace software engineers, but it will expose the ones who never learned to think like engineers. Tools can speed you up, but if your thinking’s wrong, AI just gets you to the wrong place faster. Engineering still matters.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

2.5 hour train 🚆 journey home. Added #dotnet #aspire to yet another solution/repository. It gets easier each time, and I learn something new each time.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

@davidfowl.com quick #aspire question...how can I do some parsing on a connection string from RabbitMQ before it's passed as an environmental variable to a project. E.g. builder.AddProject<>(...).WithEnvironment("rabbit", ParseAndDoSomething(rabbitmqresource));

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David Pine @davidpine.dev · 21/05/2025

🤓 For the first time ever, we’re going deeper—detailing the underlying architecture (specifically, DCP) of #dotnet #aspire: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

.NET Aspire app host architecture diagram.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

@github.com copilot agent mode isn't very good in Android Studio. Bit of a pity given how amazing it works in #visualstudiocode it says it has done something but then I can't see any edits.

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Deploying custom Azure resources with #dotnet #aspire... almost easy, but can get complicated once you get off the well trodden path. As I discovered when trying to deploy Event Grid subscriptions for #azure #fhir service. www.unravelled.dev/dotnet-aspir...

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Dotnet Aspire - Deploying custom Azure resources

Over the last year or so of using Dotnet Aspire I’ve had a lot of successes, including getting other teams to also adopt Aspire within their solutions. When you stick to the well trodden path a lot of...

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Woohoo 🎉 my PR that fixes a bug in the #Azure SDK was merged today. This will make it possible to create queues in Azure Storage during infrastructure provisioning #aspire

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Wow 😮 this is an incredible piece of engineering. Great job and excellent write up @anthonysimmon.com

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Steve Smith @stevesmithtech.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Organisational change fails when teams unnecessarily start from scratch www.stevesmith.tech/blog/startin...

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Starting from scratch is slower – Steve Smith

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Discovered a bug in Azure.Provisioning.Storage, took a quick look at the repo but confused by how all the generated code gets generated...need to clone it and take a closer look #dotnet #aspire

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

What are some useful real world use case for #MCP? #ai #copilot #githubcopilot

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

#dotnet #aspire using my commute to London to try and build a custom ProvisionableResource to configure Auth on a Container app 🤯

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 22/03/2025

Especially as AI tools continue to proliferate, I think there is a growing demand for media, writing, etc that is just viscerally, authentically human. We’re drowning in finely-polished nothingness

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's impressive what can be done with Cursor AI 🤯

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KenR @kzhen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is such an incredible visual!

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.NET @dot.net · 24/02/2025

On this week's .NET Aspire Community Standup: 🥳.NET Aspire 9.1 Release Party 🎙️David Fowler, Damian Edwards, Jeff Fritz, Jon Galloway 🗓️February 25 / 10 AM PT / 18 UTC www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnbD... #dotnet #aspnetcore

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.NET Aspire Community Standup - .NET Aspire 9.1 Release Party

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