Top 10 Azure Functions Anti-Patterns
Disaster happens for Azure Functions. Ive often come across suboptimal practices related to Azure Functions. To streamline the information, Ive highlighted the top 10 Azure Functions anti-patterns. My...
8 Levels of Using Structural Pattern Matching in Python
After years of anticipation and watching other programming languages flaunt their “switch-case” statements, we Python developers finally got a long-awaited feature from version 3.10: structural patter...
C# is null vs == null
When C# 7.0 was officially released in March 2017 it introduced several new features to make the life of developers easier, like tuples and deconstruction, local functions, expression body definitions...
VeSync custom component for Home Assistant
Custom component for Home Assistant to interact with smart devices via the VeSync platform. This integration is heavily based on VeSync_bpo and relies on pyvesync under the hood. You can install this ...
GitHub - dotmake-build/command-line: Declarative syntax for System.CommandLine via attributes...
Declarative syntax for System.CommandLine via attributes for easy, fast, strongly-typed (no reflection) usage. Includes a source generator which automagically converts your classes to CLI commands and...
Home Assistant Add-on: Cloudflared
Connect remotely to your Home Assistant and other services, without opening ports using Cloudflare Tunnel. Cloudflared connects your Home Assistant Instance via a secure tunnel to a domain or subdomai...
Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405

In a conversation with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, he talks about his childhood experiences on his grandfathers ranch in Texas. Bezos recalls how his grandfather allowed him to ...
A modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams
A modern diagram scripting language called D2 allows users to turn text into diagrams. It provides an easy way to create diagrams using a simple syntax. D2 can be used as a CLI executable to produce S...
Announcing .NET Aspire Preview 2
The feedback we’ve received since our announcement and launch of .NET Aspire last month has been amazing! The engagement on the repo via issues and pull-requests has been inspiring to the team. We are...
Argo Workflows - The workflow engine for Kubernetes
Argo Workflows is a workflow engine designed specifically for Kubernetes. It provides a powerful and flexible platform for defining, managing, and executing complex workflows. With Argo Workflows, use...
Morris.Moxy
Morris.Moxy is a code mix-in code generator for Microsoft .NET. Moxy allows you to write code templates at development time, which are then processed as Roslyn code-generators in real-time, and the re...
Updates to the StronglyTypedId library - simplification, templating, and CodeFixes
Several years ago I wrote a series about using strongly typed IDs to avoid a whole class of bugs in C# applications. As part of that series I introduced a NuGet package, StronglyTypedId, which simplif...
OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check
OpenAIs Superalignment team, led by Ilya Sutskever, has developed a method to guide the behavior of increasingly intelligent AI models. The company aims to maintain control over AI systems that could ...
The best new features in Microsoft .NET 8
From dynamic memory limits to faster collection classes, .NET 8 is packed with new features for building more performant, scalable, and secure applications. Microsoft’s .NET 8 arrived November 14 with...
ModCon23 Keynote Livestream

Chris and Tim welcome the audience to Modcon, where they announce two breakthrough technologies, Mojo and the AI engine. They highlight the common enemy of complexity and fragmentation in AI developme...
Godot 4.2 arrives in style!
Earlier this year we stepped into the future of Godot with the release of Godot 4.0, and 4 months later we followed it up with Godot 4.1 which was full of new features and improvements. Today we are p...
How .NET 8.0 boosted AIS.NET performance by 27%
At endjin, we maintain Ais.Net, an open source high-performance library for parsing AIS message. This article discusses how .NET 8.0 has provided a 27% performance increase compared to previous versio...
New Data Annotation attributes with .NET 8
With .NET 8, the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations Namespace has been revised and some new attributes have been added that have been requested by the community for some time and have only been imp...
The Developer Ecosystem in 2023: Key Trends for C#
We’ve captured insights from 26,348 developers worldwide in our annual Developer Ecosystem Survey 2023. This recap focuses on C# and .NET, but you can see what’s trending in other languages as well. E...
GPT Research Assistant
Build your own AI research assistant using the OpenAI Assistants API to access the latest AI research papers. The challenge is to keep up with rapid AI advancements and avoid information overload and ...