ardalis (Steve Smith)

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do - 🍔 🍟Burger King cook - ⌨️ 🖥️ Data entry temp - 📦 🚛 Loaded trucks - 🇺🇸💥🫡 Combat Engineer Officer

This is the creativity I'm looking for

Hey everyone, gather around! Elon Musk, the trillionaire defense contractor currently spending >$400m on political campaigns to prop up the party of a deeply unpopular president who launched the Iran War has some thoughts about Ukraine, elites, and money in politics.

Wait for it… Oh my bad that was it actually.

xkcd.com/3314/ #security

🎲 What can a board game teach us about C# 15 and .NET 11? Quite a lot! Explore common domain modeling pitfalls, why invalid states slip past the compiler, and how new features like unions and closed hierarchies can help catch bugs earlier.

Not only has inflation brought higher prices to the average consumer, but the cost of buying a politician has skyrocketed.

New C# 11 features detailed in this new blog series: blog.nimblepros.com/series/tiles... #dotnet #csharp

GoDaddy revoking 400k TLS certificates; nothing to see here, move along? bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

These weirdos are spending billions to "genetically engineer a war dog?"🤡 First of all, genetic engineering of dogs already exists. It's called breeding. It's practically free. Second, there is nothing a non-psychopath needs a dog to be able to do to a human being, that a Belgian Malinois can't do

Keep Aliso Viejo free from Flock!

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-acco...

you know you were thinking it

🚨 Urgent PHP Security Updates! Two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619) with severity 9.2 discovered. Affecting ~1.3M servers. Patches released today, Oct 21st, 14:00 UTC. Adminstrators, update immediately! #PHP #Security #Vulnerability

The .NET team just put out a preview of dotnetup, a toolchain manager for .NET in the same spirit as rustup or nvm. Small thing, but setting up a new machine just got a lot less annoying. #dotnet #csharp

If only our leaders had that much spine in sufficient quantities.

It’s incredible what now happens in plain sight while the media fails to hold anyone accountable. We’ve reached the point where the satire is funny until you remember it’s describing reality.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views. Which can be very uncomfortable if you are one of the facts that need altering. — Doctor Who (played by Tom Baker)

The 10 software engineering books I keep recommending 🧵👇

This episode is a perfect allegory of what we are living through. Anthropic had to replace git for its monorepo www.anthropic.com/engineering/... . The reason: 2,500 merges a day in May, more than 30,000 in Sept.

Oh good, Windows decided to reboot overnight. Not like I was doing anything important… #ItMustBeWednesday

it’s just great marketing

Interesting article on the tax loophole that is pass-through income: www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

“She asked the powers at NASA to let her add a safeguard to prevent that error in a real flight, and they laughed it off as too unlikely… When an astronaut did make that blooper during the Apollo 8 mission, it caused necessary navigational data to vanish, and they called Hamilton in to get it back.”

I got to be on DotNetRocks this week talking the Critter Stack, Event Sourcing, inevitably AI, and a little bit of a get off my rant about today's content creators: www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2023

This man is unfit in every possible sense of the word. He is the worst impulses of this nation given physical form, and it is the duty of every single one of us who actually believe in freedom and democracy to make sure he and his followers are banished from power.

The President of the United States, in front of a crowd of his supporters, during a televised rally, admits to a Quid Pro Quo pardon, which is a felony and impeachable offence. And absolutely nothing will happen, because his party, which controls congress, are fascist collaborators and sycophants.

Checking out Cory Doctorow tonight at the Hudson library!

RIght wing propaganda fake cable TV news company Newsmax also recently got mad at Carr, stating his quest to create a new monopoly over local broadcast TV will competitively harm OTHER propaganda companies

Looks like #github is refusing pushes (and other commands) with 500 Internal Server Error at the moment... Their status page claims all is well, though... #git

you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires

the tech industry is about to invent books