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T3 Code provides a convenient interface for working with coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex.

If your .NET pods are each using 1–2 GB of RAM, you may be leaving a lot of pod density — and money — on the table.

A developer I was chatting with recently raised a question I’ve been hearing more and more: Since we can produce code so fast now, does the code actually matter that much?

Claude Code’s agent teams feature lets you spin up multiple Claude instances that work in parallel, each in its own visible terminal pane.

AI coding agents are only as good as the information you put in front of them.

“Software developers fail in two ways: they build the thing wrong, or they build the wrong thing.”

One of the foundational promises of cloud computing is elastic, near-infinite scalability.

If you want to stand out, you need to have your own identity.

DotNetConf (.NET Conf) is a long-running virtual conference hosted each November with the release of a new version of .NET.

In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains.

Introduction I recently became aware of Asciinema when I saw that the Aspire docs are using it to document installing their CLI.

Introduction Today’s LLMs have already ingested basically all of the publicly available information they can to build their models.

Better late than never, as I’m writing this in early February 2026… First, here are a few links to past years in review: My 2017 Year in Review My 2018 Year in Review My 2019 Year in Review My 2020 Year in Review My 2021 Year in Review My 2022 Year in Rev…

By a devoted advocate for individual choice Introduction: Fire Protection, Reimagined 🚒 In a nation that prizes personal responsibility, it’s time to ask whether a single, taxpayer-funded fire department model still serves us best.

This article is part of the 2025 Advent of C# Code Calendar, which publishes 2 C# articles every day in December leading up to 25 December.

Introduction A command that many shells have had forever and that PowerShell has had for a long time as well is ‘cd -’ which means “change directory to previous folder”.

Ever year or so, a new version of .NET ships, and I need to upgrade the .NET SDK version on my machines.

The last two years, I’ve had the good fortune to be invited to the Netherlands for TechoramaNL, and I’ve been able to bring my wife and business partner Michelle and our twin boys along as well.

Back in the .NET 10 Preview days, Andrew Lock wrote about running one-off dotnet tools with DNX.

A special case of primitive obsession is the use of an int value to describe a span of time.

I may have gone a bit overboard this year… I’ve scheduled myself for 5 developer conferences in 4 weeks during October 2025!

Merging multiple MP4 files into one can be useful when working with ripped DVDs, split movie parts, or recorded gameplay.

If you’re setting up a polished dev terminal experience with icons, custom fonts, and PowerShell 7 on Windows 11, here’s a step-by-step guide that actually works.

I originally posted this on LinkedIn / BlueSky but I’ve found that it’s nearly impossible to find (searching for “AI is the new offshoring” or"genAI is the new offshoring" both fail to find it) so I’m cross-posting here and adding a bit more context.

Generative AI tools have greatly improved in their ability to generate large amounts of code, quickly, to support software development tasks.

A new major version of the Ardalis Specification library has been released.

Better late than never, as I’m writing this in late February 2025… First, here’s a few links to past years in review: My 2017 Year in Review My 2018 Year in Review My 2019 Year in Review My 2020 Year in Review My 2021 Year in Review My 2022 Year in Review…

A developer manager recently reached out with a concern: their new QA team member was finding too many bugs, leading to frustration among developers.

This post is part of the C# Advent Calendar 2024 - check out all of the C# articles from this year!

When working with software development, especially in object-oriented or component-based systems, understanding the distinction between interfaces and implementations is crucial.

As a software developer, you might spend most of your time immersed in code, solving problems, and building innovative solutions.

What do you do when you find yourself in microservice hell?

One of the key challenges in developing a modular monolith is managing the communication between different modules, especially when it comes to handling data dependencies across module boundaries.

Writing maintainable code should be a goal in most software engineering projects.

One of the key challenges in developing a modular monolith is managing the communication between different modules, especially when it comes to handling data dependencies across module boundaries.

The other day I was participating in a conversation online in an architecture forum.

In the fast-evolving world of software development, keeping pace with technology trends is both a necessity and a challenge.

NOTE: Watch the video above to see actual timings of starting with and without debugging.

If you don’t like reading, here’s my YouTube video with samples that covers why these 5 rules will help you write better DTOs: What’s a DTO?

As I’m writing this the Internet is out.

In the world of software architecture, finding the perfect balance between complexity and simplicity can often feel like an elusive quest.

Integrating.NET Core with MongoDB in a Dockerized Environment Hello, fellow developers!

Integrating Redis Caching in.NET 8 Applications Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.

I ran into a weird problem with how Visual Studio was sending API requests.

Recently I ran into a weird problem with how Visual Studio was sending API requests and I really wanted to see exactly what headers were being sent to my ASP.NET Core app.

Now that CodeMash is over (I had a workshop and 2 talks, including a new one), I can focus enough to write up this review post.

Scaling up and scaling out, originally application terms, offer a fresh perspective on team development.

I keep wanting to do this and forgetting how, so I’m writing it down.

I’m thrilled to announce the release of my latest Pluralsight course, Refactoring to SOLID C# Code.

Entity Framework Core: Understanding Migrations, Snapshots, and Synchronization Entity Framework Core (EF Core) is a powerful tool for managing database schema migrations and synchronization in.NET projects.