Jon Galloway

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

🐾 Meet Blobby, the VS Code Pet! Thank you to everyone who submitted a name and helped us choose our new coding companion. 💙 Want to code with Blobby by your side? Open GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and enter: /vscode-pet

🧠 HydraFusion is now available in VS Code as a Research Preview. Instead of relying on a single model, HydraFusion orchestrates multiple models and workflows to tackle coding tasks. Give it a try today! 🚀 aka.ms/VSCode/Hydra...

〰️ HAPPENING TODAY - .NET Unboxed: .NET 11 Release Candidate 1!! 〰️ Join the team LIVE as they show off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 1!! See you here at 11AM PT ➡️ msft.it/63320aXhLE

〰️ SAVE THE DATE 〰️ .NET Unboxed: .NET 11 Release Candidate 1!! Join the team on September 10th as they show off their favorite features in .NET 11 in this release party for .NET 11 RC 1!! See you LIVE here at 11AM PT ➡️ msft.it/63323akEsB

🎤 .NET devs, the #DotNetConf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters is OPEN! 🚀 Got insights on .NET 11, AI, #ASPNET Core, DevOps, MAUI, containers, OSS, or cloud-native apps? Share your lessons learned, demos, and deep dives with the global .NET community. 💜 msft.it/63326aX7eC

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About a month after the last 10.x servicing release comes #ILSpy 11. Ported to @avaloniaui.net, now available for Linux, Mac and Windows! THE open-source #dotnet decompiler just got ways more useful, read about the three major areas of investment at github.com/icsharpcode/...

Save the date! .NET Conf is coming November 10th-12th - watch for the call for speakers and more info on the .NET blog in the coming weeks! #dotNETConf

📊 Early production insights from MAI-Code-1-Flash We're sharing an early look at how MAI-Code-1-Flash performs in production and what the data suggests about coding quality and token efficiency in real developer workflows. 🔗 Read the full analysis: aka.ms/VSCodeBlog/MAI

We kicked off the VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon last night, and the energy was incredible. While teams got to work building innovative AI solutions, we also want to shine a spotlight on the solo competitors taking on the challenge independently. T #VSLive #Microsoft #MicrosoftHQ #Hackathon

MCP C# SDK v2.0 landed 🎉 Stateless-by-default MRTR for interactive tools Smart HTTP headers ASP.NET Core-native A tidy, practical upgrade for MCP builders. 👉 Blog: ift.tt/Fx7gHVG

📣 Claude Opus 5 is now rolling out in VS Code. Give it a try! github.blog/changelog/20...

⚡ TypeScript 7 is here! Built with a native Go implementation, it brings up to 10× faster builds while maintaining compatibility with your existing TypeScript projects. Read more: devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...

Does Code Cleanliness Affect Coding Agents? | Discussion

🚀 Build and test web apps right in the browser with VS Code! Pages can now request camera, location, and device access with per-site approval prompts. The Agents window (Preview) also introduces guided onboarding tours to help you get started faster.

📣 Claude Sonnet 5 is now rolling out in VS Code. Give it a try! github.blog/changelog/20...

I finally got to writing up how we handle tests in the Aspire Community Toolkit where we run over 1000 tests across two OSes split between 50+ projects: www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2026-0... @aspire.dev #aspire #dotnet

🚀 The latest VS Code release just expanded your AI model options. Discover and install extra providers from the Marketplace right inside the editor. Just browse, install, and your new models show up in the picker!

There are two ways to resolve the cognitive dissonance of being on Twitter while also caring about all the awful shit happening because of Twitter 1. Leave Twitter 2. Stop caring Profoundly disappointing how many people I like seem to have chosen the latter

The next frontier of agentic development is here, and you are in control. Today we announced releases that will keep you in the flow with your agents, all on the GitHub platform. ⬇️

Here's a quick GitHub Copilot App canvas to show Squad status gist.github.com/jongalloway/...

Is your Terminal intelligent? devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/...

🎤 The @code team is bringing a lot to #MSBuild this year! From live demos and AMAs to deep dives on agentic development, multi-agent workflows, and how we ship AI features at scale, here's a look at what we'll be sharing. 🧵👇

Building Intelligent .NET Applications: From AI Features to Agentic Systems hubs.li/Q04dFg2S0 via @jongalloway.bsky.social @vslive.bsky.social #dotnet

Modernization starts with knowing what you have. Then figuring out what changes safely. This session walks through that process. youtu.be/6JK2FRJD1v8 More sessions: aka.ms/VSLiveLV26

Directly reference issues and PRs in Copilot CLI - a gamechanger for OSS development youtube.com/shorts/Mfp7v...

Microsoft Edit v2.0.0 Release - Now with lightweight syntax highlighting buff.ly/paBskKj #cli #commandline #editor #terminal #microsoftedit #oss

🚀 Better prompts. Smarter agents. More control. The latest @code release introduces the Chat Customizations Evaluation extension, designed to help analyze and refine your prompts, agents, instructions, and skills.

Access your local dev environment from any device using the new GitHub Copilot CLI /remote command! Here's a full walkthrough: youtu.be/vazR-lBAvD8

New course alert 📣 GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners is live—and it’s free. 8 chapters, a hands-on project, and everything you need to bring AI into your command line. Check it out: github.com/github/copil...

Spectre.Console 0.55.0 is out! 🎉 A lot of new features and bug fixes, but also some breaking changes, so make sure you read the release notes! spectreconsole.net/blog/2025-11-13-spectre-console-0-55-released #dotnet #csharp #opensource

This is no April Fools’ joke… we just hit 1M subscribers on YouTube 🎉 Thank you to our amazing community for building, learning, and growing with us. This milestone is yours, happy coding! 💙

Squad + Godot MCP Pro after a few hours narrowing down a good starting template and architecture. Crazy to see how fast it's spinning this up.

.NET STS releases are now supported for 2 years instead of 18 months starting with .NET 9 (the current STS). STS releases now go out-of-support on the same day as the previous LTS release. Upgrading to an STS release will no longer cause you to lose support! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotne...

Join me at Visual Studio Live! San Diego in September. Speakers include @jasonbock.net, @andrewbrust.info, @allenconway.bsky.social, @jongalloway.bsky.social, @rocky.lhotka.net, @brianrandell.com, @linotadros.bsky.social, and more. Links to my sessions and discounts: ericboyd.com/events/visua...

TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line

🚀 New episode of Coding After Work! We chat with @jongalloway.bsky.social about vibe coding, Blazor, .NET Aspire, submarines (!), AI dev productivity & even that time he won a car on The Price Is Right. You don’t want to miss this one 🎧 ▶️ buff.ly/H3AHupP #dotnet #Blazor #DevCommunity #AI #Podcast

Love VS Code? Love GitHub Copilot? Want to be part of the future of Agentic Development and share it with the world? My team is hiring a Senior TPM focused on Agentic Dev Tools Advocacy! Work with the teams building it! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/sh... #vscode #githubcopilot #coreai

I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg

BIG NEWS!!! my bff @james.montemagno.com is joining #aspirifridays tomorrow so @damianedwards.com and I can help him fix the Aspirification of an app he built based on an app that @davidfowl.com built?! the shenanigans will be high. bingo included. SEE YOU TOMORROW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIVs...

🧠 Using SQL Server 2025 Vector Search in .NET Aspire – eShopLite Style! Introduction SQL Server 2025 is super cool 😎 — and naturally, I had to test out the brand-new vector capabilities! If you haven’t checked it out yet, start here:🔗 To explore these features, I leaned into one of my favorite…

Sorry Copilot you have to work Saturdays github.com/jongalloway/...

Bluesky is not twitter because we block losers before we even see their sad attention seeking. Think of it as vaccinating your account. Here’s an example: 1. Go to @skywatch.blue 2. Tap Lists and scroll down to MAGA 3. Tap subscribe & then block accounts. 4. All the magas now rot on the vine

Charlie Wilson's War is one of the few movies I wish had been made during the modern miniseries era.

We're going to be talking about the new support in .NET 10 to directly run a .cs (C#) file without a project on the Languages & Runtime Community Stand-up this morning! Come ask your questions 😁 www.youtube.com/live/rb9oXSp...

How Microsoft Office Moved from Source Depot to Git | Discussion

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So, so true. The gap between design tools and the possibilities of the CSS based web platform is getting bigger year by year. @ishadeed.com at #cssday. (Reminds me of @matthiasott.com‘s talk last year cssday.nl/2024/#matthias)