Victor Frye

Hey Bluesky! I'm Victor 👋🏻 A little bit about me... 🌎 Developer and gamer in Grand Rapids 👨🏻‍💻 Building with .NET and Azure 🎮 Questing on Xbox and Nintendo 🐉 Exploring fantasy worlds on page and pixel ☕ Powered by coffee 📎 The number one Clippy fan 📰 Plugged into the tech and gaming pulse

Every once in a blue moon I get a notification and am reminded Bluesky still exists. I primarily open Threads, Instagram, and YouTube for socials these days. Maybe I'll try more here again.

Aspire Roadmap 2025: Code-first DevOps, polyglot, and AI by @victorfrye.com victorfrye.com/blog/posts/a... #aspire

Today is yet another bad day for the technology and gaming industries. My thoughts and prayers for all those impacted by layoffs.

Let's talk about options! Two great options: 1. The options pattern in .NET. Type safety, separation of concerns, and an extension library makes life easier. 2. The options to read about it! I'm blogging on my own .com, the EDJE blog, Medium, and devto! victorfrye.com/blog/posts/d...

In a twist of fate, I'm now speaking at Beer City Code on my favorite topic in tech rn: .NET Aspire

Got a griddle for my birthday last week and I've been putting it through the paces. Vibe cooking my way into summer.

Happy #MSBuild week to all who celebrate!! 🎉

i'm still playing Oblivion. Expedition 33 is already begging me to play it and now DOOM??? chillllll backlog chill

Oops. I wrote another blog post. Hello, Docker, my old friend, it's nice to run with you again. victorfrye.com/blog/posts/m...

Okay. So now I have a blog, but I have no way of knowing who reads said blog? I need to implement tracking and cookies, don't I? And write more stuff. And play video games

Why is centering a div still such a hard problem???

I built a blog. Or more accurately, I built a blog into my existing portfolio site 📣 Check it out: victorfrye.com/blog

Okay. Nextjs is really cool. Why are more people not using it? Havent had one issue with vendor lock-in. Comfortably deploying to Azure SWAs.

Apparently PowerPoint makes for a good blog banner image generator. I'm really happy with how this turned out: Spoilers: I'm starting with writing about Aspire!

Wrote my first blog post today. Unpublished as I want to edit it and get some feedback. Also started rewriting some conf abstracts for final wave of CFPs this year. Contentful weekend so far.

We have the answer! #GTA6 will be coming May 26, 2026. Yes, 2026, not 2025. Excited to see all the bets collected on today. And looking forward to other games finally knowing when they can release this fall through next spring.

Sooo.... Did anyone secure a Switch 2 pre-order?

Let open the gates to Oblivion!!

Okay, that DOOM controller is sexy. I may not be able to resist...

I have some big tech content creation goals and increasing community involvement ... But I'm also going to keep playing video games too.

Omg the Oblivion remake might actually be real

Ahhh DNS... why must thy hate thee?

I built the thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ shrugman.com

Somehow the shrugman.com site disappeared and domain was available. Do not worry, internet, it's been acquired and for the good of the internet it will return. 😜

I am a Panican

Nvm. We've all been marked unsafe from tariffs... F.

Nintendo Switch 2 marked unsafe from tariffs

Tomorrow is the Switch 2 Direct and I'm so pumped.

Today was the monday-est of Mondays. Docker and WSL issues, rogue processes causing issues, maintenance guys... And worst of all, US taxes 🤢

Turns out running in warm rain, feels great. Running when a tree rips out of the ground from the wind? A little scary.

Wrapped up MITechCon yesterday and reminded me just how much I love speaking and engaging with the developer community. What a fantastic 2-day conf in Michigan.

With my renewed engagement on socials, whether passive or active, we also must bring back my favorite: #FrenchFryeFriday

Yeah, so BlueSky won the social migrations. Tech and gaming. Let's get socializing.

Writing has been on the wall for years, but Skype is formally dying in May. Is it sad or a sigh of relief adding it to microsoftgraveyard.com? I'm not sure.

Wrapped up a full completion of Eternal Strands last night. A lot of satisfaction cleaning up colossal foes like dragons and great arks and the characters along the way were great. Oria, Casmyn, Dahm? Breakout hit from Yellow Brick and I'm so excited to see what they do next.

Happy French Frye Friday! This week has been refamiliarizing myself with Docker, OpenAI services, and there's trending media about DeepSeek? Might say it's all about the whales.

my coffee grinder broke yesterday and my addiction is showing now

I was lagging on games for a bit but we put the hours in this month. 5 games this January and 2 more releasing on the 28th. Let's go 2025.

Shadow drop has been Izuna dropped to completion. Ninja Gaiden 2 Black is way easier than I remember NG2 as a kid 😅

That Xbox Developer Direct was absolute fire and my year is already overflowing with games to play. Good thing I just wrapped up Tails of Iron bc I'm playing Ninja Gaiden tonight

Kinda been absent from socials after another severe sickness. Finally feel like 80%+ tho so hey Bsky! 👋🏻

Started this weekend and just finished the main story one of my favorite indie finds: Tails of Iron. Soulslikes? 2D? Rats?? Somehow combos for a top tier 10h experience. Next, the DLC.

Once again reminded why I try to ignore football watching this Lions game... Maybe next year.

Passed my Azure Data fundamentals exam! Marks my fourth cert and 3/3 fundamentals certs on my personal training plan. 🎉 learn.microsoft.com/api/credenti...

Today is all about final review before my next exam and a new game! Harold Halibut vs Azure Data Fundamentals

First game completion and it's a 💯 and top tier game: Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown!! Solidified my love of metroidvanias. Was a bit challenging and one or two bugs in the DLC, but makes me even more upset Ubisoft broke up this team. Such a masterpiece.

We're a long way from the Vault... Fallout is now also on Bluesky for all your wasteland news! 👍

We're happy to extend our presence into bluer pastures with the new year. A big 'thank you' to everyone who has already given us a follow.

my man @ser0bi.bsky.social is the same on BlueSky and Threads. 'preciate you