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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 15/06/2026

reminder for the .NET people: 4 days left on the WOODY code 24 days until the workshop After Friday, you can still come, you just pay $400 extra to feel decisive. live360events.com/events/train... #dotnet #csharp #ai

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 09/06/2026

Performance update for the Baseball History Project: I moved the database from SQLite to Postgres, and the speed jump is huge. Queries that used to drag now feel instant. Next up: an MCP server for baseball stats. Stay tuned. baseballhistoryproject.com

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 22/04/2026

Your developer community now has members who cannot read your content. AI coding agents integrate with your platform before a human writes a line. When they get it wrong, developers leave. Silently. No ticket. No post. That gap has a name now. Agentic Relations. agenticairelations.com #devrel

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 14/04/2026

htmxRazor v2.0.0 is out. VS Code snippets (97), interactive playground, Theme Builder, SignalR connector, and a Kanban board. Targets .NET 10. No breaking changes. 1,838 tests. dotnet add package htmxRazor --version 2.0.1 htmxRazor.com

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 10/04/2026

Our inaugural River City AI & Dev meetup is on April 15 We're demoing Squad, a multi-agent AI framework that deploys a full team of specialists to build in parallel and ship PRs. Live. In the room. 📍 Bamboo Grand Rapids · 6–8:30 PM rivercity-ai.dev #RiverCityAI #AI #SoftwareDevelopment

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 01/04/2026

River City AI & Dev (Grand Rapids, MI) is looking for speakers and sponsors! AI topics preferred, all dev topics welcome. Lightning talks to full sessions. Sponsors: connect with West Michigan's growing tech community. Meets every 3rd Wednesday • rivercity-ai.dev

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 31/03/2026

Big update to Baseball History - 30+ REST API endpoints, a player comparison tool, awards voting breakdowns, postseason browser, and salary explorer. 150+ years of MLB data, no auth needed. Open source, built on ASP.NET Core + htmx. baseballhistoryproject.com #Baseball #OpenSource #Sabermetrics

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 30/03/2026

Two Complexity Audit slots open for Q2. Architecture Tax. TCA calculation. Three case studies. If your number was large enough to act on, this is the next step. Fixed scope. Fixed price. simplicity-first.dev/ArchAssessment

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 27/03/2026

Happy Opening Day! Just shipped a big update to the Baseball History Project, with major performance gains, UX improvements, and full data from 1871 through 2025. 154 years of baseball, right in your browser. baseballhistoryproject.com

Happy Opening Day! Just shipped a big update to the Baseball History Project — major performance gains, UX improvements, and full data from 1871 through 2025.

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 27/03/2026

Microservices use 44% more energy than a monolith doing the same work. Every idle container burns electricity around the clock. The architecture tax is not just financial. It is environmental. Simplification is climate action. simplicity-first.dev

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 24/03/2026

htmxRazor v1.4.0: SSE streaming, multi-step wizard, optimistic UI, timeline, response-aware forms, load more, dialog sizes. Real-time .NET Tag Helpers for htmx. No Bootstrap, no client JS. htmxRazor.com

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 20/03/2026

Asked AI to design a payment system. It returned 14 files, 3 abstraction layers, a service registry, and an event bus. The requirement needed 1 file and 47 lines. AI gives you speed. The Three Filters give you direction. simplicity-first.dev #softwarearchitecture #softwaredevelopment #ai

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 16/03/2026

47 microservices became 3. Same functionality. 90% cost reduction. 3 engineers went from maintaining infrastructure full-time to shipping more features in one year than the entire team managed the year before. Same people. Same skills. Fewer services.

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 13/03/2026

Most over-engineered system you've worked on? Mine: 14 microservices for a charter school admin platform that served 3 schools. Attendance query took 4 service hops. Replaced with one service and a few modules in an afternoon. Fourteen services. 10 schools. Yours?

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 09/03/2026

Three questions. Every architecture decision. That's the whole method. 01 The 2 AM Test: can a tired engineer debug this without you? 02 The Half-Rule: build half, ship, then decide. 03 Primary Path First: design for the 95% case. Which one would your last decision have failed?

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 07/03/2026

htmxRazor 1.2.0 is out. Toast notifications, pagination, ARIA live regions, CSS cascade layers, View Transitions API support, and hx-on:* attributes for htmx 2.x. All server-rendered. All Tag Helpers. All ASP.NET Core. htmxRazor.com github.com/cwoodruff/htmxRazor

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 10/02/2026

Baseball's records belong to everyone, not paywalls. 150 years of stats. Every player from 1871 to 2025. Search players, trace franchises, explore the Hall of Fame. Free. Open source. Yours to fork. baseballhistoryproject.com #Sports #Baseball #Statistics

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 19/01/2026

Big update to my htmx + ASP.NET Core Razor Pages book! 3 NEW CHAPTERS: Ch 18: Caching & History Ch 19: Request Optimization Ch 20: Performance Tuning Plus, every existing chapter has been revised with improved code examples and production-ready patterns. aspnet-htmx.com #dotnet #htmx #aspnetcore

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 04/09/2025

Simplicity Scales, Complexity Crumbles Big systems don’t fail from traffic. They fail from tangled complexity. Lean, simple .NET code is what truly scales. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #CSharp #SoftwareArchitecture

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 03/09/2025

The Craft of Saying No The hardest skill in software architecture? Not adding more. Every “yes” piles on complexity. Every wise “no” protects simplicity. Saying no is what keeps systems alive. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #CSharp #SoftwareArchitecture

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 31/08/2025

Green Software Starts at the Keyboard Every keystroke matters. Inefficient code burns extra CPU cycles, memory, and energy. Cleaner .NET code = faster apps + a greener planet. Simple code is sustainable code. #DotNet #GreenSoftware #SimplicityFirst #DeveloperLife #SoftwareDesign

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 31/08/2025

The 2 AM Test If your system crashes at 2 AM, could you (or anyone) fix it half-asleep? Readable, obvious, boring code is underrated. Simplicity is 2 AM resilience. #SimplicityFirst #SoftwareArchitecture #SoftwareDesign #DeveloperLife

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 30/08/2025

Rethink scaling. It’s not about stacking more servers—it’s about writing smarter .NET code. Fewer boxes. Cleaner design. Simplicity scales. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #CleanCode #SoftwareArchitecture

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 29/08/2025

Intelligent Architecture Isn’t Complicated Over-engineering creates confusion, cost, and fragility. The smartest .NET systems are often the simplest. Clarity > Cleverness. Simplicity scales. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #SoftwareArchitecture

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 28/08/2025

The Green Side of Performance Inefficient .NET code doesn’t just hurt speed—it burns extra energy. Refactor for performance, and you refactor for sustainability. Simple code is green code. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #GreenSoftware

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 28/08/2025

Kill the Bloat Before It Kills You Every extra dependency, service, or abstraction adds weight. Bloat slows your .NET systems, drains energy, and piles up costs. Simplicity isn’t optional. It’s survival. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #CodeQuality #DeveloperLife

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 27/08/2025

Simplicity Saves Energy Every extra loop, abstraction, or service burns more CPU, memory, and power. Cleaner .NET code = faster apps + lower carbon footprint. Simple code is green code. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #GreenSoftware

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 27/08/2025

When in doubt, delete code. The best refactoring isn’t always adding patterns; it’s hitting the backspace key. #DotNet #CSharp #SimplicityFirst

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 26/08/2025

Complexity isn’t a feature. It’s a cost. Every extra layer, dependency, or abstraction is something you’ll pay for later. Simplicity is what scales. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #CleanCode

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 25/08/2025

The Half-Rule of Simplicity: Could this work with half the code and half the tech? .NET gives us a huge toolbox, but mastery comes from restraint. The real challenge isn’t adding more, it’s cutting away what isn’t needed. #SimplicityFirst #DotNet #CleanCode

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 24/08/2025

I really believe this. I will discuss my new podcast coming next week. Hope you come to listen to my views and agree and better to disagree but open to discussion. The Woody Show may piss you off but I hope it will open discussions.

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 08/06/2025

My son who is almost 25 found my first business card after college in 1995. I was his age. This blows my mind since this was before Web 1.0.

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 08/06/2025

Shape the future of .NET tooling by spending just 10 minutes on JetBrains .NET development market research. Fill out the survey and enter the prize draw! Start now surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/dotnet-de... #devlife #devex #dotnet #csharp #programming

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 19/05/2025

Never thought I would see @resharper.bsky.social on @vscode.dev but I am happy that it is there now. blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/...

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 13/05/2025

Setting up the summer work space

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 12/05/2025

Here is a trusty Rust Lifetime Decoder graphic to help.

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 28/04/2025

6 new chapters are out for “ #ASPNET Core Reimagined with #htmx” book! #Hyperscript for smarter UI logic Navigation with hx-push-url and hx-replace-url Forms and modal forms that work Tabs and accordions made simple Dynamic lists and tables Buttons and action links done right aspnet-htmx.com

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 26/04/2025

Is there any interest in getting a weekly D&D group gathered to play virtually? Looking at a Horror Gothic campaign to start with new players. Will run on @dndbeyond.bsky.social

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 25/04/2025

I am aging myself but anyone remember playing this as a kid?

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 04/04/2025

I was in the Rotunda in the National Archives and saw this quite from President Madison. #democracy

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 25/03/2025

I am also doing a talk on web development using #htmx with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in Tunisia. tunisiadevdays.net

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Chris Woody Woodruff @woodruff.dev · 25/03/2025

I am humbled and happy to return to Tunisia this November to speak at the Tunisia Dev Days event. It was great last year, and I expect it to be even better this year! I am conducting a full-day workshop on Web API development with ASP.NET Core. tunisiadevdays.net

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