Aaron Powell (@slace)

The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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You're telling me a vibe coded this website?

Tonight (well, tonight Sydney time!) I'm going to be doing an off-the-cuff session about how I use GitHub Copilot, things I'm building with it, and tips on how to make the best use of it. 🕧 6pm ADST 🔗 www.meetup.com/coding-night...

Hot on the heels of @aspire.dev releasing 13.6.0, we've shipped support in the Community Toolkit - github.com/CommunityToo...

For anyone who's got nothing better to do at 7pm, I'm going to be talking about AI + hardware hacking - www.meetup.com/en-au/sydney...

I wrote a blog for @visualstudio.com on just how easily you can use the Parallel Stacks view to start debugging memory dumps from production systems - devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... There's a companion blog on the .NET blog about how to write a dump collector.

You know what I want, WhatsApp to allow me to create a "subaccount" that I could give to an AI agent in something like OpenClaw rather than having to get a phone number, creating a new account for that number, and so on.

They didn't model the policy? Colour me "Barnaby at 5pm Friday" pink

Are you a @visualstudio.com user? Did you know you can review PRs from within VS, no need to context switch between the codebase and the browser. Check out how - devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Sydney and Melbourne commuters, I have a wee favour to ask: Detective Beans is currently being featured on your train ads and I won't be able to see them in person so if you see any please snap me a photo! Thank you!!😻

GitHub wants to learn about the tools, product settings, and personal adaptations developers use to do their best work. You don't need to identify as someone with disabilities or already consider yourself an accessibility-tool user to participate. Respond by 9/30 ⬇️ gh.io/2026-accesscats-survey

It's finally out, Aspire Community Toolkit 13.5 with support for @aspiredotdev 13.5, 13(!!!) new integrations and a bunch of bug fixes - github.com/CommunityToo... #dotnet #aspire

My first custom PCB has arrived for my desk motor controller. Now to get to soldering!

Continuing my series about reviving the Tessel 2 boards, this is how I first tried to upgrade to the latest OpenWrt and guess what, it didn't work - www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2026-0...

How's it going? Oh, just a little bit of work for a Friday afternoon, probably going to push a PR then smokebomb out.

We started a new series showing how to do daily workflows entirely from within Visual Studio. First up, managing Git Submodules, no CLI needed! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

.NET 11’s ASN.1 string parsing is going to get some SIMD love and parse and encode faster.

Tickets for DDD Melbourne 2027 go on sale this Friday, Aug 14 at 11am! 🥳 Low-cost, one day, fully catered, childcare available. Set a reminder! 🗓️

📣 CFP is open till Sep 30 — first-timers very welcome! Free mentoring, free speaker training, anonymous voting. You don't need to be a dev; we just want good ideas 💭 Stay tuned for the release of our CFP Training Dates 👀 and submit your talk right here: sessionize.com/ddd-melbourn...

Next article in my Tessel 2 revival series, this time we're starting to get the toolchain working on Windows - www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2026-0...

I've kicked off a new series about the journey I've been taking to revive a now-defunct OSS hardware project to make use of the drawer full of dev boards - www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2026-0...

Did my first EV charge today, I feel so grown up

Just about to kick off with @codess-aus.bsky.social to talk about GitHub Copilot app - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLST...

New car go vroooooom!

wow, the volume of spam accounts on here has shot up massively in the past week.

Nifty little weekend project with GitHub Copilot app - I revived a long defunct OSS hardware project (Tessel2), got the toolchain to work on Windows, then built a Canvas to work with the device while pairing with Copilot. Next to see if I can update the OpenWRT version it runs

New from me: A flood of AI-generated code has left key open-source developers known as maintainers "inundated", with many turning to AI tools to help handle the onslaught. Featuring Aussie maintainer @lucyleeow.bsky.social, Microsoft's @aaron-powell.com, GitHub's @ashleywolf.bsky.social, and more 💻

Fantasic. Good job. Well done Angus. 🙄

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

A few weeks ago, I gave a talk looking at how AI dev tools have evolved in what seems like a very short period of time. You can catch the recording from @ndcconferences.com here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKZV...

I wrote a blog post about one of the more advanced automations we've got setup on Awesome Copilot to facilitate external plugins - www.aaron-powell.com/posts/2026-0...

The end of this article I think is on point: "the electric car might fundamentally change the way we do road trips. We planned, stopped and turned off the highway to charge at many small towns by-passed by highways." Build back up small towns as part of a roadtrip, not something to blow past.

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

no shit, I'd probably swim as fast as I can too

Real national resilience does not come from staying hooked on imported fuel. We need to electrify the economy and transport, expand charging infrastructure, modernise the grid, and make it easier for households and businesses to cut oil dependence. www.zalisteggall.com.au/speaks_on_ur... #auspol

For some reporting I have to export from one web app and import into another. I wrote a Copilot SDK app to do it using Playwright. The site to export from just had a UX overhaul, Copilot was able to navigate it still from the prompt and did its thing. This is magic.

I fixed a bug in a web app entirely without using AI, AMA

We'll be getting the Community Toolkit up to 13.2 soon and with TypeScript AppHost support.

And now I'm looking to deploy OpenClaw into my homelab...

Messing around with @home-assistant.io, @avaloniaui.net and GitHub Copilot SDK to try and build a little desktop AI chat for HA - github.com/aaronpowell/...

Oooo as of the 1.0.6 release of Copilot CLI I have shipped my first contribution to it!

Over the past few weeks my wife and I have test driven the VW ID Buzz, Zeekr 7x, BYD Sealion 7 and Kia EV5 (with Hyundai Exelio and Volvo EX40 still to try), and we're still no closer to an agreement on what EV to get 😅

Slowly learning ansible as I try and do some better IaC for my homelab and boy I'm so not built for this 😅

Awesome Copilot has been growing amazingly fast but with growth comes pain, especially with contributions-as-marketing. To ensure we continue to be a source of high-quality agents, skills, etc. I've updated our policy on paid service contributions - github.com/github/aweso...