ardalis (Steve Smith)

@ardalis.com

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Software Architect and Force Multiplier of dev teams. Husband. Dad to 4 kids: 3 ADHD sons, 2 twins, 1 daughter. 💡NimblePros.com 🔥devBetter.com 🎥YouTube.com/ardalis Pluralsight | Dometrain author Microsoft Dev MVP 💥Combat Engineer veteran

public interface IService { public List<Item> Items { get; } public void AddItem(String name, int quantity = 2); } public record Item(String Name, int Quantity); public class SomeService : IService { public List<Item> Items { get; } = []; public void AddItem(String name, int quantity = 1) { Items.Add(new Item(name, quantity)); } }
Baby Glow and Grow mat with two arches and hanging toys
Mark Laszlo: I did the official poster for Metallica's show tonight in Budapest. (The scene depicts a Kaiju-sized Szent István, as he's shredding over the ruins of the postapocalyptic city, with the "Szent Jobb" (his sacred mummified Right Hand - a real thing, look it up) reattached to his body after thousands of years.)
Sicily from the east
Bruce Springsteen concert
From GithubCopilot community on Reddit April usage summary compared to usage-based billing (coming soon): Current bill: $39 Usage-based bill: $5,851.77 Some other numbers and graphs but that's it, that's the story.
A cat Caption: I wake up -> there's a new supply chain attack --> in a circle back to start.
Claude Status Page - showing Major Outage for all services.
What's changing on June 1 for Copilot Billing Premium request units, or PRUs, will be replaced by GitHub AI Credits which are a monthly allotment of credits consumed based on token consumption (input, output, and cached tokens) according to the listed API rates per model. This change aligns Copilot pricing with actual usage and is an important step toward a sustainable, reliable Copilot business and experience for all users. Copilot code review’s agentic architecture runs on GitHub Actions. Copilot code review will now consume GitHub Actions minutes, in addition to GitHub AI Credits. These minutes are billed at the same per-minute rates as other GitHub Actions workflows. Fallback experiences will no longer be available. Under the new model, usage will instead be governed by available credits. What's changing on June 1 for Copilot Annual Plans GitHub is retiring Copilot annual plans. As a current annual subscriber your Copilot Pro or Pro+ plan will continue as-is with premium request-based pricing. When your annual plan ends, your account will automatically transition to Copilot Free, which you can continue using at no cost. The experience on annual plans will change significantly: model multipliers will increase, and standard-tier models (currently 0x) will no longer be available, reflecting increased compute costs and the transition to usage-based billing, and no new models or features will be added to annual plans going forward. To keep getting new models and features, we recommend switching to a Copilot Pro or Pro+ monthly plan with the new usage-based billing system starting June 1. If you switch before your annual subscription expires, you'll receive prorated credits for the remaining value of your annual plan.
The moon, bottom left, with the earth mostly in night-time shadow to the right.
Vegetable Korma rice, carrots, bell peppers, green beans
Code: SPEAKERFRIENDS_2026 Price: $199 per ticket Registration: https://events.humanitix.com/stir-trek-2026-edition
Oberlin Iuddites Reject "Year of AI Exploration" (bsky wouldn’t let me put in longer text)
Bike Meme Pane 1: Trump: Israel says I should bomb Iran Pane 2: (Strait of Hormuz blockaded - global energy emergency looms) Pane 3: Curse you Joe Biden!
4 C: \dev 12:45 13.1.2+895a2f0b09d747a052aaaf0273d55ad0e2dc95b0 4 C: \dev Description: Create a new Aspire project. Usage: aspire new [command] [options] Options: -n, -- name <name> -0, -- output <output> -s, -- source <source> -v, -- version <version> -- channel <channel> -? , -h, -- help -d, -- debug -- non-interactive -- wait-for-debugger Commands : aspire-starter aspire-ts-cs-starter aspire-py-starter aspire-apphost-singlefile 12:45 aspire -version aspire new -- help The name of the project to create. The output path for the project. The NuGet source to use for the project templates. The version of the project templates to use. Channel to use for templates (stable, daily) Show help and usage information Enable debug logging to the console. Run the command in non-interactive mode, disabling all interactive prompts and spinners Wait for a debugger to attach before executing the command. Starter App (ASP.NET Core/Blazor) Starter App (ASP.NET Core/React) Starter App (FastAPI/React) Empty AppHost
A module dependency diagram for RiverBooks
Two people in bed I BET HE'S THINKING ABOUT CONTINVOUCLY MORGING I COULD BE CONTINVOUCLY MORGING RN
A New Source of Data As the image above shows, some of the reason for Stack Overflow's drop in popularity may be attributed to shifts to other communities. I have no doubt that Al companies are already working with these communities, either directly or surrepticiously. But the other obvious source of data to mine is the Al companies' own users' conversations with the companies' existing models. There is a LOT of data there, with OpenAl's ChatGPT claiming 2.5B requests/day from 330M US-based users in July 2025, and more recently claiming over 800M weekly active users in Feb 2026. These stored
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Incident with Pull RequestsSubscribe Update - Actions is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate. Feb 09, 2026 - 16:22 UTC Update - We are seeing intermittent errors on many pages and API requests and are investigating. Feb 09, 2026 - 16:21 UTC Update - Issues is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Feb 09, 2026 - 16:20 UTC Investigating - We are investigating reports of degraded performance for Pull Requests Feb 09, 2026 - 16:19 UTC
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Sure, but that's different. It's like the replicator in Star Trek. If you're a busy parent, and you'd love to find the time to cook your famous "insert tasty traditional family recipe that takes hours to make" but you never ever do because you just don't have the time, it's kind of awesome to have a replicator and be able to just go "make me a... describe recipe" and boom, you've got yourself a tasty meal. But if you're a restaurant chef and cooking is your passion and now the restaurant owners decides to fire all the cooks and sous-chefs, buys a fancy replicator and tells you that from now on your job is to be an intermediary between the wait staff and the replicator, that sucks. When you complain and ask why he just doesn't get the wait staff to pass the orders to the replicator themselves, he says "Oh no, we need a chef to do that, someone who knows ingredients, because the replicator is not perfect and if you just say 'give me a cheeseburger', you might not get what you want, sometimes it's better to say 'give me a cheeseburger' with two beef patties, medium rare, with aioli and toasted bun' and we feel like a chef would be slightly better at doing that than a waiter or the customer himself". How much comfort would that be? Would you still feel like a restaurant chef? Would you still have the same joy, pride and satisfaction in your work?
"The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated." -Leo Tolstoy
ARBEIT MACHI FRET "THE CORRECT RESPONSE TO DACHAU WAS NOT BETTER TRAINING FOR THE GUARDS." -HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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Error Alert Dialog VSIX Installer The given stream must have the ability to seek. [OK]
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Calculator app showing 350,000,000x0.00001% = 35
git-wrapped.com @ardalis 2025 Year in Code (not counting the end of December...) Universal Rank: Top 1% Longest Streak: 33 days Total Commits: 2,529 Most Active Month: December Most Active Day: Tuesday Total Stars: 92,848 Top Language: C#
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Git operation failures Update - We are currently investigating failures on all Git operations, including both SSH and HTTP. Nov 18, 2025 - 21:11 UTC Update - We are seeing failures for some git http operations and are investigating Nov 18, 2025 - 20:52 UTC Update - Git Operations is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate. Nov 18, 2025 - 20:39 UTC Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Nov 18, 2025 - 20:39 UTC Subscribe ? Current Status: GitHub.com Git Operations Incident -. Webhooks ? Normal API Requests Normal ? Issues Normal ?
Screenshot of my dotnetconf talk on clean architecture showing how the application is organized
fficiency Ranking (Accuracy per 1K Tokens) Each format's overall performance, balancing accuracy against token cost: TOON ████████████████████ 26.9 │ 73.9% acc │ 2,744 tokens JSON compact █████████████████░░░ 22.9 │ 70.7% acc │ 3,081 tokens YAML ██████████████░░░░░░ 18.6 │ 69.0% acc │ 3,719 tokens JSON ███████████░░░░░░░░░ 15.3 │ 69.7% acc │ 4,545 tokens XML ██████████░░░░░░░░░░ 13.0 │ 67.1% acc │ 5,167 tokens TOON achieves 73.9% accuracy (vs JSON's 69.7%) while using 39.6% fewer tokens. Note on CSV: Excluded from ranking as it only supports 109 of 209 questions (flat tabular data only). While CSV is highly token-efficient for simple tabular data, it cannot represent nested structures that other formats handle.
Frame one: muppet Elmo at a table with some fruit on one side and what appears to be cocaine on the other. Fruit labeled “a well working useful product serving an actual purpose”. Elmo labeled “Investors”. Coke labeled “AI”. Frame 2: Elmo face deep in the coke. Originally shared with me via a signal chat.
A photo of a cardboard box holding a notebook, Rubik’s cube, luggage tag, and other swag labeled .NET 10
Store with sign MEGAFLICKS But looks like MEGAFUCKS caption below: You should have used a different font
Q: why does teams desktop app not use my system defaults for mic/speakers? It keeps using my microphone as the speaker A: Teams may not be using your system defaults for audio because you have multiple audio devices connected, or the app's settings have been changed. To fix this, go to Teams Settings > Devices and manually select your preferred microphone and speaker from the dropdown menus, or use the Make a test call feature to verify and adjust the settings.
15% faster 93% less memory .NET 10 compared to .NET 8
• Patronage System: A political practice where leaders provide government jobs, contracts, and favors to their supporters and allies in exchange for political loyalty and support. • Clientelism: This involves a broader, often ongoing, asymmetric relationship where patrons (those in power) provide benefits to clients (citizens/supporters) in return for political action, such as votes. • Cronyism: The practice of favoring friends and associates specifically in business dealings and political appointments, regardless of their merit. • Nepotism: A specific form of cronyism that involves favoritism granted to relatives or family members, regardless of their qualifications. These practices are often associated with oligarchy (rule by a few powerful people in their own self-interest) and can lead to significant corruption and inefficiency, as positions and resources are distributed based on personal ties rather than merit or qualification. The merit system is the direct opposite, where appointments are based purely on an individual's
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AI Overview To use a QR code in your email on your phone, open the email, then use your phone's built-in camera app to scan it. Point your camera at the QR code on the screen, and a notification or link will appear that you can tap to follow the embedded link or action. If your phone doesn't have a built-in scanner, you can download a QR code scanner app like Google Lens. Using a built-in camera Open the email on your phone and display the QR code on your screen. Open your phone's camera app. Point the camera at the QR code. You don't need to take a picture. A notification, banner, or link will appear on your screen once the code is recognized. Tap the notification to go to the link or perform the action.
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A 10’ black and red spider terrorizes folks walking the trail at night at KEW gardens
Use my data for generative AI Toggled OFF
Theater of people ready for the talk
Enterprise Waterfall sing to Pink Floyd Another Brick in the Wall
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Sintra pond
Steve ardalis Smith speaking at Techorama
At Moorish castle with Pena palace in background
what i found in those 47 codebases: like 89% had zero database indexing. ZERO. your app is slow because youre searching through 100,000 records on every single request. thats not a bug thats just... why 76% were paying for like 8x more servers than they needed. the average is 13% utilization - youre paying for 100 servers and using 13 of them. burning $3k-15k a month for nothing 68% had auth vulnerabilities that would make any security person have a panic attack 91% had no automated tests at all. so every new feature is literally russian roulette
and theres this pattern that shows up EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. month 1-6: everything is great. moving fast, shipping features, customers are happy, lifes good month 7-12: things start slowing down. weird bugs popping up. "we'll fix it later" becomes the team motto month 13-18: you literally cannot add a new feature without breaking 3 old ones. every deploy is stressful month 19-24: youve now hired 3 more engineers and theyre just maintaining the existing mess. not building anything new month 25+: rebuild from scratch or watch your startup die in slow motion
aspire new aspire-starter Enter the project name (aspiretests): AspireSample Enter the output path: (./AspireSample): ./AspireSample 📦 Using project templates version: 9.5.1 ✔ Project created successfully in C:\dev\scratch\aspiretests\AspireSample.
dotnet tool install -g Aspire.Cli --prerelease aspire --version