Peter Ritchie

“We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” #votingday

When you think about it, LLMs organize data like a memory palace. Everything it it's place but relative, in meaning, to everything else.

Blogged: Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 19 bit.ly/4yzfWwj #dotnet

I really miss tricking Americans that this was Canadian money. 🥹

“A Popular Information analysis of campaign finance records reveals that the [Ramaswamy] ad was funded, in part, with contributions from the PACs and executives of major American corporations, including Bank of America, Deloitte, DraftKings, Kroger, and Nationwide.” popular.info/p/the-corpor...

How to add an air of skepticism or conspiracy to reporting on the facts:

Slack help/Check for updates...: "You're all good" Exit Slack and restart. Slack help/Downloading update 😔

🎮 "Just save the game state." We explore how C# 15 unions interact with System.Text.Json in .NET 11, what works, what doesn't, and a converter-free workaround. 👀 https://blog.nimblepros.com/blogs/saving-the-game-system-text-json-and-union-state/ #dotnet #csharp

Sometimes, the best choice is to delete your work, start over, and do it again knowing what you learned the first time.

C# Dev Tip of the Day Use interfaces at boundaries, not everywhere by default. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/dependency-injection

I heard something about Backstreet Boys residency in Toronto. Makes me wonder what's going on with a Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch comeback?

🚀 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬. 🚀 An LLM is a next-word predictor.

Git is the machine language of revision control. Most people need a higher-level language to use it correctly.

If you had a ticket to Grace Hopper and have not cancelled your plans to go to San Francisco, go to @github.com's LinkedIn right now if you'd like to attend GitHub Universe for free ❤️

When your team doesn't understand the code that they've accepted in a pull request, is there a point to doing pull requests? If there's little point to pull requests, why do you have revision control? If you trust AI, why not trust it to "revert" to a prior state and be done with revision control?

First alpha of Clearinet github.com/ericlaw1979/...

I noticed rant about how airports don't have "tarmac" anymore. He wasn't wrong, it's obsolete. But it really ignores how English speakers/writers evolve words by usage not just by definition. There are many examples, like "dialing" and "hanging up" a phone, and "carbon copy". Know of any others?

This course teaches you how to review existing architectures with Claude—spotting unclear ownership, hidden dependencies, and fragile boundaries:

Classic extension methods were basically scaffolding. Dustin Campbell and Mads Torgersen dig into how C#'s new extension members feature changes that: msft.it/63326aWRUm

Blogged: Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 12 bit.ly/4B9HfjB #dotnet

From the .NET blog... Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/durable-task-in-the-real-world/ #dotnet #Azure #AIagents #distributedsystems #durableexecution #DurableTask #DurableTaskScheduler

We can detect and measure bots, but everyone is okay with allowing them to cause the damage they're causing?!

Derpity derp derp

See it before you build it. Workshop: Implementing Domain-Driven Design (3 seats remaining) 4 days: $400 (save $1,600) Dates: 12-15 October - DDD Strategic and Tactical Design - EventStorming, Impact Mapping - Ports & Adapters / Hexagonal Architecture - Event-Driven Architecture Just a taste 👇

It's kinda cool that you can pipe C# directly into dotnet run since .NET 10, so you can easily use C# as an inline script. Here is a Cake.Sdk task handling AI: #dotnet #csharp

I provide 16 heuristics for identifying Subdomains and Bounded Contexts. Even so, you still have to think 🙂 Workshop: Implementing Domain-Driven Design 4 days: $400 (save $1,600) Dates: 12-15 October Just a taste 👇 Registration below. kalele.io/iddd-workshop

And now 1.0 is out! Come get it! #CosmosDB

Blogged: Software Delivery with AI from the Trenches: Leveraging Domain-Driven Design - Introduction bit.ly/4zfwBWy #dotnet

Lots of Github incidents today... 😔 Overall quality seems to be down the past year or so. Mind you, I find that to be true for a few software vendors.

Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - September 28 bit.ly/4hrFQvy #dotnet

That's too bad, because that's one of the driving factors in the creation of UUID 7: a lesser impact on database performance. www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9562/

User stories were an evolution from traditional formal specifications: a simpler, more flexible approach to requirements but with the same goal of making sure everyone understood the intent.

Same me, Stackoverflow seems to be blocking all IPs 😔

In this post we'll see how we can improve our builder to use Bogus to simplify the boilerplate involved and improve the quality of the test data created: https://bit.ly/4daRAiq #testing #TestData #BuilderPattern

TIL: if you inadvertently reference Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.CodeCoverage in a #dotnet class library, it will no longer pack to a nupkg with no errors or warnings. 😞

I laughed out loud at the absurdity of a vertical axis named Model Number in a chart in a post mentioning performance benchmarking.

The same connection string keywords now work across Microsoft SQL drivers

This expands what a "model" is. Things evolve and improve, but current models use math to create vector embeddings and token predictions are made from a context based on those vector embeddings. Executing code is a new feature that existing models don't have.

When I saw this I thought of you @woodruff.dev microsoft.github.io/rust-for-dot...

100% this.

Over six sessions, this loop is what turns "I understand tactical patterns" into "I can build a working domain model and defend every decision in it." If you've been meaning to move from knowing DDD to actually doing it: buff.ly/l82hY4k and we start on October 5th.

Blogged: Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - September 28 bit.ly/4hrFQvy #dotnet

"Start with a spec, not a vibe". I can't agree more.