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Alexandre Nédélec

@techwatching.bsky.social
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Software developer ⋅ Working mainly in C# / .NET on Azure ⋅ Vue.js enthusiast ⋅ Microsoft MVP ⋅ Puluminary ⋅ Writing tech articles on techwatching.dev

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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
/ask (ot its alias /btw) is one of the slash command I've started to use more and more to ask a question to github copilot without interrupting the model thinking. Nice little tip. #githubcopilotapp
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MTG:Bordeaux @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On redémarre les meetups avec le GitHub Dev Days Bordeaux le 8 octobre, chez Avanade Bordeaux. Venez nombr∙euses∙eux. luma.com/grtkilkz
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Dev Days | Bordeaux, France · Luma
✨ Dev Days is a global, in-person community-led initiative taking place from September 1st - October 31st, 2026. The series brings together developers,…
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Canvas in GitHub Copilot App are very nice. Being able to interact both ways is a game changer. I asked Copilot to find how was working somehting in the code, then open in the buitl-in editor canvas the file to check the code myself. #githubcopilotapp
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@scott.hanselman.com I've just seen the replay of the keynote you gave in July at Avanade for Orange Day. Amazing talk 👍. I could not attend live; I was on paternity leave 🍼. Did you give a public version of this talk at another event so I can share the replay with people outside of Avanade?
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thanks for the heads-up, but that was indeed my intention 🤣. #GitHubCopilot
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How we extend dev tools has completely changed over the last decade. We all remember buggy plugins freezing Visual Studio or locking up JetBrains IDEs. Moving extensions out-of-process finally solved stability, while VS Code proved building an extension could be fast and accessible.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Swapped Netflix this weekend for “The Story of VS Code | Official Documentary” and have zero regrets. Whether you use it or not, its tech impact is wild: LSP, Monaco, remote dev, accessibility... If you work in tech, give it a watch. Great storytelling, learned a ton. 📺 #vscode @vscode.dev
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
When I started using GitHub Copilot App in preview a few months ago, it was to easily run and manage multiple sessions in parrallel. Now, thanks to canvas, GitHub Copilot can do anything. Here I'm using it to run in an Android emulator the mobile app I just developed. #GitHubCopilotApp #github
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I stopped using GitHub Copilot App for a month and half because I stopped working with the arrival of my newborn. I've just reopened it today because I was curious, I am so amazed by all the changes. This new insights tab looks good and I can't wait to have fun with the customize section. #github
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Between 2 bottles for my baby 🍼, this is how I built an app to track feeds and weight all from my mobile using GitHub mobile app. #github
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I became a dad for the second time 2 weeks ago. I needed to keep track of the bottles my child drinks and his weight. So between feeds, I used Copilot cloud agent to create a web app for that. Everything was done using GitHub mobile app, nothing else. techwatching.github.io/new-parents-... #github
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Little Sips — Bottle feed tracker
A private, browser-based bottle feed and baby weight tracker.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Nice opportunities to learn about GitHub Copilot App. 👉 developer.microsoft.com/blog/lets-le...
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Let’s Learn GitHub Copilot App - Free Virtual Training Event - Microsoft for Developers
Join us for a free online event series kicking off July 16 to learn how to get started with the GitHub Copilot App!
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MTG:Bordeaux @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Dernier meetup avant la pause estivale c'est ce soir 👉 www.meetup.com/mtg-bordeaux... Au programme Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Foundry, de la data, de l'IA, du networking.
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Data & IA sous contrôle, Thu, Jul 2, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup
**MTG:Bordeaux x ApérOps** Pour ce meetup, nous avons le plaisir de co-organiser l'événement avec [ApérOps](https://bordeaux-aperops.com/) et d'être accueillis par [Thélio
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Nice to see where the aspire project is going 👉 github.com/microsoft/as...
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Our Latest Aspirations (Roadmap) - 2026 -> 2027 · microsoft aspire · Discussion #18581
Aspire Roadmap (2026 → 2027) Hi everyone 💫 What a year! Since last July, 128 of you merged 3,191 pull requests, closed 2,277 issues, shipped 31 releases, and pushed Aspire past 6k ⭐stars⭐ on GitHub...
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Now that it has become crucial to pay attention to usage with GitHub Copilot, it's nice to have this kind of detail about the context for a session. In case you missed it, just click on your session title in GitHub Copilot App.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Hey @github.com , could you cross post messages on @bsky.app . That's the kind of news we don't want to miss here
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Sometimes, you catch a problem in an open source project, you take the time to create an issue, explain the problem, and the issue stays forever to be fixed; that's life. But aspire team fixed my issue in a few hours. Nice. github.com/microsoft/as...
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VS Code Aspire panel ask to upgrade Aspire CLI while cli already up to date · Issue #18337 · microsoft/aspire
Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Describe the bug When I open the aspire panel in VSCode and no apphost is running I have the following error message that re...
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Aspire 💫 @aspire.dev · 16/06/2026
Aspire 13.4 brings more of the local development loop into @VSCode.dev: AppHost CodeLens actions, live resource state, dashboard shortcuts, typed resource command prompts, TypeScript AppHost support, and multi-language debugging. devblogs.microsoft.com/aspire/aspir... #AspireDev
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I needed a SQL Server database to test something. VS Code mssql extension could create a local sql server container for me but it does not work with podman. The wizard to create an Azure SQL Database was glitchy. In the end, best solution was to use aspire, in few minutes I had my database ready.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Automations are a great way to be noticed every day of GitHub Copilot App latest features. #GitHubCopilot
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I started working on a project that does not have much documentation. So I've been starting to create SQL Notebooks to have in the same file markdown documentation and the corresponding SQL queries that I can directly execute from the notebook. I love the experience. #sqlnotebooks #vscode
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
If you have not tried creating canvas in GitHub Copilot App, you are missing something. I just asked him to create a canva to visualize diagrams related to my code. And now I have drawio and mermaid diagrams in GitHub Copilot App. Being able to prompt to modify the UI of the app live is amazing
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Man in Suit Makes Expressive Gesture
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MTG:Bordeaux @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Le Microsoft Build //localhost:bordeaux c'est ce lundi 8 juin à partir de 17h30 à l'École de Turing. L'occasion de débriefer des annonces de la Microsoft Build 2026 autour d'une table ronde avec différents invités, un lab Azure / IA et un talk. developer.microsoft.com/fr-fr/reacto... #MSBuild
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Microsoft Build //localhost:bordeaux | Microsoft Reactor
Découvrez de nouvelles compétences, rencontrez de nouveaux pairs et trouvez un parrainage pour votre carrière. Les événements virtuels ont lieu 24 h sur 24 : joignez-vous donc à nous à n’importe quel ...
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When you watch Microsoft Build keynote to learn new things and you end playing a game with Mona inside GitHub Copilot App. #MsBuild #GitHubCopilot
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Microsoft Build is in less than 1 week so it's time to plan what sessions you will watch or attend. What if there were any agent skill to do that from GitHub Copilot. #GitHubCopilot #mvpbuzz youtu.be/yqQFQQ-diLI
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Planifier son agenda pour Microsoft Build à l'aide de l'IA
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Gerald Versluis @jfversluis.dev · 19/05/2026
Forget IDEs! I just did a full walkthrough of the @github.com Copilot app. Standalone desktop app. No editor. Just agents working across your repos in parallel. Sessions spawn sessions. And you can remote control it all from your phone 🤯 youtu.be/NKIX0g9RPxw
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Si vous ne connaissez pas le projet des roadmaps communautaires pour les devs (@roadmapsh.bsky.social 355k stars sur GitHub), j'ai fait une vidéo de 2 min dessus, où je montre aussi ma nouvelle roadmap : youtu.be/VCmJcrUWsog?...
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Toutes les roadmaps dev sont ici... même la mienne
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I have been using the new GItHub Copilot App for several weeks and it has become my go to app for agentic development even if it's still in technical preview. I made a video about it (in french) 👉 youtu.be/ejZROuNY7WQ #github #githubcopilot #githubcopilotapp
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GitHub Copilot App : ce que personne ne vous a encore montré
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here we go again for another year in the puluminaries program. Happy to be part of this community. Awesome box, and nice nod to Matrix with Pulumi’s Neo infrastructure AI agent. Thanks Pulumi team. @ediri.de @adamgordonbell.bsky.social @joeduffy.bsky.social #pulumi
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Very informative episode about agent loop, harness, and models from @james.montemagno.com @pierceboggan.bsky.social in @vscode.dev insiders podcast. 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/635B...
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Inside The Agent Loop with Pierce Boggan
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Interesting to see that we are soon going to be able to manage Azure Cosmos db data permissions with Azure RBAC. Having a different but similar permission mechanism for permissions related to data operations was kind of weird. devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/ann...
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Announcing the Private Preview of Cosmos DB Azure RBAC Integration - Azure Cosmos DB Blog
Announcing Integrated Azure RBAC for Azure Cosmos DB. Simplify access management with a unified permissions model across management and data operations using Microsoft Entra ID.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Every morning, before the Daily Scrum Meeting with my team, I do a standup with GitHub Copilot CLI. Nice way to review the work done recently, what's still in progress, and resume to a previous session. #GitHubCopilotCLI #GitHubCopilot #GitHub
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In my classes, I use interactive MCQs both to engage students and to automatically record attendance. Since the attendance data was scattered across several Excel files, I asked GitHub Copilot CLI to consolidate it into a single workbook showing attendance for each student across all sessions.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Le 30 avril aura un GitHub Copilot Dev Days à Bordeaux dans les locaux d'Avanade. L'occasion de découvrir plein de nouveautés sur le développement assisté par l'IA et sur GitHub Copilot. 🎟️ www.meetup.com/mtg-bordeaux... #GitHubCopilot #GitHubCopilotDevDays @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
@vscode.dev just launched VS Code Agents App, a companion for VS Code Insiders built for agent-centric dev. Better Copilot session management, cleaner UI for AI workflows, nice worktree support, fast session customization. Still in preview but promising. #VSCode #GitHubCopilot #VSCodeAgentsApp
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Tug Grall @tgrall.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Big news for those working in restricted or air-gapped environments: - GitHub Copilot CLI now supports local models and BYOK. I’m often asked if Copilot can work offline or in secure zones—now it finally can. Check out the update: github.blog/changelog/20... #GitHubCopilot
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Copilot CLI now supports BYOK and local models - GitHub Changelog
GitHub Copilot CLI now lets you connect your own model provider or run fully local models instead of using GitHub-hosted model routing. This means you can use the models and…
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As I have only a short memory buffer, I tend to forget details about bugs or features I've worked on. So I appreciate being able to ask GitHub Copilot CLI about the sessions I've worked on recently. It directly queries its SQLite database to answer me, and I can even resume a previous session.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
I created my 1st GitHub Agentic Workflow to keep my blog up to date with the Nuxt template my blog is based on: techwatching.dev/posts/github... #nuxt #githubcopilot #agenticworkflow
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I created my first GitHub Agentic Workflow to keep my blog up to date
Exploring GitHub's agentic workflows.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
After a few ups and downs (flight cancelled, one day lost to take the next flight, hotel that cancelled my reservation, etc) I'm ready for #MVPSummit Really nice to have met other MVPs and very grateful for their help getting through difficulties
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Wow Awesome GitHub Copilot repo now has a website developer.microsoft.com/blog/awesome...
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Awesome GitHub Copilot just got a website, and a learning hub, and plugins! - Microsoft for Developers
Back in July, we launched the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations repo with a simple goal: give the community a place to share custom instructions, prompts, and chat modes to customize the AI respon...
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Evan You @evanyou.me · 13/03/2026
Vite+ is open source under MIT and free for everyone.
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Aspire 💫 @aspire.dev · 04/03/2026
Did you hear?! #AspireConf is coming March 23! 💫 Are you as excited as we are?! Save the date and see the agenda so far: aspire.dev/aspireconf/?... #Python #TypeScript #dotnet #AspireDev
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Finally, dotnet/skills are there! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/exten...
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Extend your coding agent with .NET Skills - .NET Blog
Introducing the dotnet/skills repository and how .NET agent skills can improve coding agent workflows.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is available in GitHub Copilot. github.blog/changelog/20... @github.com
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Claude Sonnet 4.6, Anthropic’s latest agentic coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. In early testing, this model excels on agentic coding, and is particularly successful in search…
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
When you feel you are almost up to date with latest AI practices and you see the changeling of the new vscode release 👉 code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_109
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a man wearing sunglasses looks surprised and shocked
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MTG:Bordeaux @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
On vous présente Arthur Magne, notre troisième intervenant du meetup de ce soir. Arthur est CTPO chez Packmind, et il nous partagera un retour d’expérience concret et des leviers pour garder la maîtrise dans ce nouvel environnement IA.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I'm a huge fan of Playwright MCP or Chrome Dev Tools MCP but I just came across Playwright CLI this morning and something tells me using this with a skill is going to be my preferred way of using browser automation with Agents. github.com/microsoft/pl...
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GitHub - microsoft/playwright-cli: CLI for common Playwright actions. Record and generate Playwright code, inspect selectors and take screenshots.
CLI for common Playwright actions. Record and generate Playwright code, inspect selectors and take screenshots. - microsoft/playwright-cli
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MTG:Bordeaux @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
On vous présente Marine Thierry, notre seconde intervenante du prochain meetup. Marine est Data Analyst & formatrice en freelance. Elle mettra en lumière les enjeux de la complexité en data et nous montrera pourquoi simplicité et l’explicabilité sont des piliers essentiels de la prise de décision.
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Alexandre Nédélec @techwatching.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Hi @nuxt.com , I am receiving 500 HTTP errors from Nuxt UI MCP server, is there something currently down? Is there a MCP status page to know when the MCP server is having issues?
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MTG:Bordeaux @mtgbordeaux.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
On vous présente Laura Julien, la première intervenante de notre prochain meetup MTG:Bordeaux & Women In Tech Bordeaux. Laura est CTO de l'éditeur SaaS Loré et nous parlera de son utilisation de services Azure et d'IA pour le traitement de milliers de documents.
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