Ben Sampica
@bensampica.com
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There’s been some great improvements on Minimal APIs support for binding complex objects with FromForm. Any planned support for binding arrays like int[] to respect initialization defaults like an empty array instead. #dotnetconf
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
There’s been some great improvements on Minimal APIs support for binding complex objects with FromForm. Any planned support for binding arrays like int[] to respect initialization defaults like an empty array instead. #dotnetconf
I love Aspire but #dotnetconf why did aspire jump from 9.x to 13.x?
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I love Aspire but #dotnetconf why did aspire jump from 9.x to 13.x?
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.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team!
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download .NET 10.0 (Linux, macOS, and Windows) | .NET
.NET 10.0 downloads for Linux, macOS, and Windows. .NET is a free, cross-platform, open-source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
dotnet.microsoft.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
.NET 10 is available 🎉 This is a Long Term Support version packed again with quite some good features and performance improvements, congrats to the team!
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
Download it now from dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/downlo...
There are 8 whole people in the entire world who are shocked by this development.
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
There are 8 whole people in the entire world who are shocked by this development.
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"The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜
#PurpleFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FloralFriday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#dahlia
Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜
#PurpleFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FloralFriday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#dahlia
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"The only way to have a friend is to be one" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜
#PurpleFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FloralFriday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#dahlia
Wishing you a happy Halloween evening and a great start to the weekend! 💜
#PurpleFriday
#FlowersOnFriday
#FloralFriday
#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling
#dahlia
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.NET Aspire ❌
Aspire ✅🤌🏼
we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫
join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃
Aspire ✅🤌🏼
we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫
join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
.NET Aspire ❌
Aspire ✅🤌🏼
we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫
join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃
Aspire ✅🤌🏼
we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫
join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃
Unbelievable times that this is a serious post.
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Unbelievable times that this is a serious post.
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This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it.
I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other.
youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other.
youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
youtu.be
October 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This gives me goosebumps every single time I see it.
I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other.
youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
I could cry that I'm 2025 we still need to listen because too many people still focus on hate of others, rather than helping each other.
youtu.be/k0CzXi9e66M?...
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Evergreen.
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Evergreen.
Can we get Visual Studio for Mac back? Please?! C# dev kit and Rider miss the mark for me.
October 12, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Can we get Visual Studio for Mac back? Please?! C# dev kit and Rider miss the mark for me.
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Leadership is a characteristic of an individual. It is NOT a position to which somebody can be appointed.
September 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Leadership is a characteristic of an individual. It is NOT a position to which somebody can be appointed.
Trying to get the Raspberry Pi GPIO & I2C capabilities to work inside a container has been a “fun” exercise that I’m still failing at. If youre reading this and have expertise or an example, hit me up PLZ 😭.
September 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Trying to get the Raspberry Pi GPIO & I2C capabilities to work inside a container has been a “fun” exercise that I’m still failing at. If youre reading this and have expertise or an example, hit me up PLZ 😭.
Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on.
www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming
www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming
My Mob Programming Journey | Ben Sampica
Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on.
www.bensampica.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Starting in 2019, I unknowingly embarked on a journey that led me to lead the most productive software development team I have ever worked on.
www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming
www.bensampica.com/post/mobprog... #mobprogramming
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This is the juice
September 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is the juice
With .NET aspire is there a way to force sub-dependencies of containers to only startup when their parents are started? For example, the Aspire Azure Service Bus container requires azure-sql-edge internally. When I place WithExplicitStart on the ServiceBus resource, the edge container still starts.
September 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
With .NET aspire is there a way to force sub-dependencies of containers to only startup when their parents are started? For example, the Aspire Azure Service Bus container requires azure-sql-edge internally. When I place WithExplicitStart on the ServiceBus resource, the edge container still starts.
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nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out.
No more api keys needed to publish from your release process.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...
No more api keys needed to publish from your release process.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...
Trusted Publishing
Trusted Publishing on nuget.org
learn.microsoft.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
nuget trusted publishing from GitHub actions is rolling out.
No more api keys needed to publish from your release process.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...
No more api keys needed to publish from your release process.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/...
I miss when social media (and the internet in general) had content that its creators thought was actually interesting. The trying-to-grab-attention low-effort content just to game algorithms is so tiring.
September 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I miss when social media (and the internet in general) had content that its creators thought was actually interesting. The trying-to-grab-attention low-effort content just to game algorithms is so tiring.
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Do This. Not This. Or ...
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
August 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Do This. Not This. Or ...
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 5/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
No slide decks. No status meetings. No “stories.” And somehow, working software (and hardware) still happened.
August 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
No slide decks. No status meetings. No “stories.” And somehow, working software (and hardware) still happened.
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Trust
Day 1/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 1/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
August 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Trust
Day 1/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
Day 1/30 sharing my favorite doodles and drawings.
There’s many days that are stuffed full of joy in my life recently. It reminds me of a quote by Andy Bernard from The Office - “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them”. I wish these good days to never end.
August 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM
There’s many days that are stuffed full of joy in my life recently. It reminds me of a quote by Andy Bernard from The Office - “I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them”. I wish these good days to never end.
Gatekeeping development behind using AI is the most backward-ass thing I’ve seen in a while. GitHub’s CEO should be ashamed and fired for such a stance. Simply put, software development is for anyone who has a computer and a curiosity to create.
August 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Gatekeeping development behind using AI is the most backward-ass thing I’ve seen in a while. GitHub’s CEO should be ashamed and fired for such a stance. Simply put, software development is for anyone who has a computer and a curiosity to create.
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Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.
Grok spread dangerous misinformation during the tsunami last night.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
It confidently and persistently argued that there were no tsunami warnings in effect for various areas when such warnings were in effect.
Many were using Grok for updates since the ability to locate reliable data on X is degraded.
July 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.