Matthew Hope Eland

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I'm surfacing a bit here to say hi. I've been so busy since last summer and haven't had time for social. World events are hitting really hard too since last Friday. I'm busy writing tech book 3 on .NET topics and some fun stuff with Werewolf and probability.

Building a Digital Dungeon Master with Semantic Kernel, C#, and Azure by Matt Eland. https://buff.ly/4ijlPa1 #csharp #dotnet #ai #azure #cloud #semantickernel #copilot #advent #csharpadvent

I've been tinkering around with AI Orchestration and LLMs to help facilitate a solo D&D campaign in an alien world setting. Tools involved are Semantic Kernel, C#, MidJourney, Azure OpenAI, and D&D Beyond with Obsidian to record my journey. It's a lot of fun.

I haven't mentioned this yet, but I am elated to join the board of @stirtrek.com, letting me serve the very first in person conference I ever attedance (back in 2009) and the regional community.

I went on a random YouTube tangent this afternoon and discovered the Bicolline Medieval LARP event up in Canada. I kind of wish Matt in his 20's knew about this place, but it was fun to watch accounts of it.

Notice my handle is @brendoneus.com on here? Custom handles are how people and brands verify themselves on here. Anyone can make a handle, but you can make it your domain name. Expect to see businesses use @help.example.com , @example.com, etc. for each department. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Wrote a bit over 1.5k words tonight, starting and finishing a chapter I'm calling "The NDA". This chapter concludes the first of 6 parts in the book, though I spot a number of things I want to polish and improve in the second draft.

I spent several hundred dollars on a bike without any tires.

Hello World.

Big legacy code energy.

As of last night, I'm 6 chapters and 11.5k words in on the new novel (an AI technothriller). I don't have a firm chapter count or word count in mind for the first draft, but I view myself as just shy of 1/6 of the way through the plot.

Hey folks. Thanks for the follows. I'm a technical author and course creator with "Refactoring with C#" and "Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks" being my published books, a new one coming next year, and a technothriller currently under development. I do a lot in the .NET and AI spaces.

If you're updating things to #dotnet 9 this week or in the near future, dotnet outdated is your friend! It will save you loads of time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fHv...

Working on a starter pack of past Stir Trek speakers. Ping us if you're not listed but should be! go.bsky.app/8SjtMxk

This is amazing. By the way, my current profile picture here is also by @reverentgeek.com.

Stir Trek has come to Blue Sky!

All food apps need the ability to customize meal names.

What inventions or products become possible if any complex computation can be achieved in 150 milliseconds through an API call?

I heard this place was popping off recently. Hello again. Still on Twitter and LI, but we'll see if I can remember to check this app too. Currently working on a novel and some conference content for January, but I'll start a new tech book in the new year.

If you never read the book Lean Software Development (and you're a software developer), you really should. In the meantime, here's a quick summary of the main principles identified in the book: ardalis.com/principles-l... #dotnet #programming #lean

Here's my first new blog post in half a year: Announcing "Refactoring with C#" ( newdevsguide.com )

I'm looking forward to speaking at Momentum Developer Conference in a few days on code visualization. I love this talk and this time around I'm exploring the Polyglot Notebooks repository using Python, Pandas, and Plotly.

Holy crap, I'm a tech author. Refactoring with C# is now available for pre-order: www.amazon.com/Refactoring-...

I just finished a 3 course specialization on AR and VR through Coursera / University of Michigan. Educational, but not amazing. Still, it expanded my knowledge and confirmed a few assumptions.

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...

Refactoring with C# has now cleared final draft. I've also gotten a sneak peek at their placeholder cover, though the image will change. It is not yet listed on any site.

The final drafts of the last two chapters of Refactoring with C# have been delivered to the publisher. All that's left are the clarifications, proofreads, and minor corrections for things we find prior to publishing.

My book, Learn WinUI 3 2nd Edition, is now 100% complete and off to be published! The target publication date is Oct 31st. You can pre-order print or Kindle copies on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/1805120069/ #windowsdev #learning #winui #windowsappsdk #dotnet #csharp #xaml #unoplatform

Packt let me know that the final technical reviews are in for the last two chapters of the book. Tonight or tomorrow night I'll send the final revisions back for review. Interesting times.

Hello world, I suppose! I'm not sure how active I'll be here since I'm finishing up one large project, a tech book called "Refactoring with C#" via Packt and starting a new pair of projects: a LinkedIn Learning course and self-published small book, both on Computer Vision on Azure.

Hello Sky