Not one for sweeping generalisations, but I often say: “It’s more important your code is readable than that it works.” I can maintain and fix readable broken code, but unreadable code will be expensively rewritten or rarely improved. Use your cleverness to make your code simple!

Excited for this book - the original is a true classic. I am hopeful that the JS version will bring its greatness to a the wider audience! Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition (MIT ... amazon.co.uk/dp/B094X8316F/… via Amazon.co.uk

The importance of outside in testing - serpapi.com/blog/how-a-rou… Much love to the author, this happens to all of us.

Reminiscing on that fact it's Visual Studio's 25th (!!!) anniversary coming up - we were recalling old products with fondness... remember this? (I may have changed the name slightly...)

I've read and played a lot with OpenTelemetry, and can genuinely say that James World's lightning talk on it just now was the best talk putting everything together that I've seen yet! Amazing!

You've probably seen me tweeting a bunch of .NET Oxford lightning-talk videos from last week's meetup, as I've published them. Here's the full playlist... youtube.com/playlist?list=… James World Matt Nield podcasterJay https://bsky.app/profile/frans.lytzen.name Kelvin Stott Corriculo #dotnet

This is a very promising API gateway offering, well worth a look.

I propose the hypothesis: “Arrival time at a meeting is inversely proportional to the distance travelled.”. Any support?

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Great talk by James World and Gareth about building an event sourcing system using #dotnet, #CosmosDb and #Elastic! #DDDSW

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At , Dan Clarke 🎙 is talking about Blazor! /cc @dotnetox

Deploying .NET Aspire Live in a demo at .NET Oxford. Nick Chapsas must be crazy 😉

Time for Stuart Lang on C# 12 at .NET Oxford :-)

Telemetry time with James World at .NET Oxford :-)

# On the "hallucination problem" I always struggle a bit with I'm asked about the "hallucination problem" in LLMs. Because, in some sense, hallucination is all LLMs do. They are dream machines. We direct their dreams with prompts. The prompts start the dream, and based on the

Andrej Karpathy The tldr I use: "LLMs always hallucinate. Sometimes their hallicinations align with your reality". Whether or not the prompt makes them hallucinate in a way that aligns with reality depends very much on the prompter's ability to check, and thus.. x.com/rao2z/status/1… )

The next #UnhandledException podcast episode dropped this morning! I was joined (for the 3rd time!) by James World to chat about AI and the Microsoft Agent Framework. unhandledexceptionpodcast.com/posts/0082-jam… #dotnet #ai