Blog Posts

Learn why you should build and own the things that differentiate you, and buy or outsource the rest. Applying the Build vs. Buy principle to your career, team, and business.

.NET Conf (dotnetconf or dotNetConf) is a long-running virtual conference hosted each November with the release of a new version of .NET. Its sessions are published to YouTube each year. What have been the top sessions …

In 2026 we can all agree that AI and agentic development are certainly exciting topics which many see yielding great productivity gains. But as the investor-subsidized pricing of these services gives way to realistic and …

Record terminal sessions for use in blogs and docs easily with Asciinema and PowerSession for Windows.

Just like systems like Stack Overflow benefited from having the accepted answer bubble to the top, so too will it become important for LLMs to pull in such information for their future training data.

A (late again) review of 2025 and all the things I did and learned.

In a nation that prizes personal responsibility, it's time to ask whether a single, taxpayer-funded fire department model still serves us best. A market of competing fire protection providers would let every household …

With .NET 10, C# now supports single file apps. And with a bit of work, this means we can also create single file test suites, which can be useful in a variety of scenarios!

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Learn how to update the .NET SDK on WSL or Ubuntu Linux using the official Microsoft package feeds and dotnet-install script.