Alan Barber

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Also, I ran into GitHub Copilot daily quota in the middle of a great coding run with my squad... really annoying!

Boy am I POed. the domain name I wanted was magically bought yesterday after I checked to see if it was free. Interestingly both the .com and .dev were taken. I didn't even look for the .dev so some algorithm must have decided I might try that as a fallback. So I went with .io

Next up in my continuing series on Patterns for C# Devs! Want logging? Wrap it. Need retries? Wrap it. Caching? You guessed it. The Decorator pattern lets you stack behavior like Legos without touching your core code. alanbarber.com/post/the-dec...

ResultR v1.0.2 is out! This release adds the new Match() method for functional-style pattern matching on results. Clean, expressive, and perfect for API controllers. alanbarber.com/post/resultr...

🛡️ BitCheck v1.0.0-beta.6 released! A tool for monitoring important documents, photos, and media archives for data degradation. Now built with DotNet 10! ⚡ Lightning fast 🌍 Windows/Linux/macOS 🔓 Open source Download: github.com/alanbarber/bit… #DataIntegrity #Bitrot #DotNet

Got tired of worrying about bitrot / data corruption on my media server so i built a thing! BitCheck - A simple CLI tool that hashes files and checks them for corruption - fast (XXHash64) - per-directory databases - cross-platform github.com/alanbarber/b... #dotnet #csharp #oss

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Anyone using windows dev drives see that it is reporting more usage than files on the actual drive? This morning my drive was reported FULL, I deleted 4-5 GB of old repos but magically over 30GB was freed! Still according the windows there is ~2.2GB of data I cannot find?!?

The finished project. I think it turned out pretty good IMO

Working on building some custom shelves now... Going to do 3 shelves and stain them to match rest of the wood trim, hopefully.

Next project, redoing the laundry room. Ripped off the old cabinet, going to patch up the holes, slap on some nice "antique white" paint and put up some new open wall to wall shelves with more storage room.

Pulling another late night refactoring a bunch of code so we can properly unit test a bunch of code making use of RestSharp. Needed to clean up a bunch of code so we could pass in a HttpClient via DI so our tests could use MockHttp library to fake out 3rd party API calls.

🎤 Hey Speakers! 🎤 Ready to share your tech wisdom and dazzle an audience? Call for papers will open Aug 15th to Aug 31st. Polish up your presentation and get ready to submit! Don’t miss the chance to inspire and be inspired at CodeMash 2025! 🚀 Details will be posted soon at codemash.org 🚀

The Central Ohio .NET Developer's Group (CONDG) has @scott.hanselman.com and @poppastring.com presenting on the latest from GitHub Copilot on Thursday, October 26th at 6pm eastern! meetu.ps/e/MdbFj/1TBp...

One of the really awesome regional conferences hosted in Ohio of all places, CodeMash, has it's call for speakers open now through the end of August (8/31/2023 at 11:59pm)! https://codemash.org/call-speakers/

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