Ben Sampica

Key thing to realize about being the new person is that sometimes people will teach you things because you need to learn, and sometimes they'll teach you things (you already know) because they're learning how to teach, and that's fine

On Thursday July 9 at Noon over Zoom we have @mitchelsellers.bsky.social speaking about "Advanced EF Core: High-Performance Data Access and Temporal Table Strategies" Sign up 👇👇 www.meetup.com/iadnug/event...

[being murdered in the kitchen] are you serious i just frickin mopped

Having issues with Codex saying “You’ve reached your codex usage limits for code reviews” wrongly and this is exactly the problem with AI support - I went through the chat box once, got a human finally who said I had to go back through the chat box. Then the chat box closes itself as duplicate.

ok water calm down

Reddit is undefeated. 😂

Is anyone using Claude/Codex in chrome? If so, what’re you using it for?

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Are the app stores still anti-web view? For example if I want to have a MAUI app using a WebView pointed at my web application but with limited functionality.

From the .NET blog... In case you missed it earlier... .NET 11 Preview 3 is now available! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-preview-3/ #dotnet #NETMAUI #ASPNETCore #csharp #EntityFramework #NET11 #Featured

Just another beautiful day of being a public servant. Let’s check the DMs — oh.

wonderful news everyone i have enabled dlss 5 on 'shower with your dad simulator 2015'

Insurance companies sending out “your year in review” brochures is some dystopian shit

"Gartner predicts that by next year, half of the companies that fired workers for AI are going to hire them back. Also, 9 months ago, Microsoft…proclaimed that 30% of their code was written by AI, and since then, we've seen some of the worst software issues at the company in its history." 1/2

I’ve got a feeling a lot of the latter half of 2020’s and early 2030’s is going to be AI cleanup, whether by AI-assisted tools or human intervention. It’ll be the Great Unsloppening.

“1 family. 2 news networks. And a president who treats mergers like loyalty tests with no regard for the public.”

Aspire Conf - March 23, 2026 aspire.dev/aspireconf/ #aspire #dotnet

Going to be a little sad seeing her in my yearly rewatches of Home Alone.

Volunteering at Pinewood Derby for my Girl Scout troop + service unit in Ankeny today - and of course I’m still on the computer 😛. It’s incredible what a few volunteers and some elbow grease can pull off. Thanks to everyone who showed up early, hauled tracks, and made it a great day for the kids. 🙌

This is the guy that thinks he’s the aryan race.

Now the AI slop is disrupting retail gaming - or really anyone who needs a computer. www.eurogamer.net/amd-and-nvid...

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A while ago, I wrote about how to automatically deploy a passwordless Azure SQL database server using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and Azure Pipelines. Hot off the press, here’s a similar post for Postgres - using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and GitHub Actions! www.bensampica.com/post/postgre...

Azure AI Foundry is a hot mess.

It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...

on type safety

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"

Me irl

Also. github.com/Raphire/Win1...

There’s been some great improvements on Minimal APIs support for binding complex objects with FromForm. Any planned support for binding arrays like int[] to respect initialization defaults like an empty array instead. #dotnetconf

I love Aspire but #dotnetconf why did aspire jump from 9.x to 13.x?

Odd to see #dotnet Aspire jump from 9.5.2 to 13.0.0… what’s up with that?

.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team! Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...

There are 8 whole people in the entire world who are shocked by this development.

"The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Ralph Waldo Emerson Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜 #PurpleFriday #FlowersOnFriday #FloralFriday #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #dahlia

.NET Aspire ❌ Aspire ✅🤌🏼 we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫 join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃

Unbelievable times that this is a serious post.

This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it. I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other. youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...

Evergreen.

Can we get Visual Studio for Mac back? Please?! C# dev kit and Rider miss the mark for me.

Leadership is a characteristic of an individual. It is NOT a position to which somebody can be appointed.

Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on. www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming

This is the juice

With .NET aspire is there a way to force sub-dependencies of containers to only startup when their parents are started? For example, the Aspire Azure Service Bus container requires azure-sql-edge internally. When I place WithExplicitStart on the ServiceBus resource, the edge container still starts.