AL Rodriguez
@programmeral.com
Writes code, mostly typos. Opinions are mine, or yours for a fee. Co-Host of @MCURewind.bsky.social. Forgets to blog at: https://ProgrammerAL.com
My favorite part of CES every year is all the great content from Cool Zone Media. Following the crew (like @iwriteok.bsky.social) on social media, and the episodes of Better Offline are all gold.
January 7, 2026 at 8:22 PM
My favorite part of CES every year is all the great content from Cool Zone Media. Following the crew (like @iwriteok.bsky.social) on social media, and the episodes of Better Offline are all gold.
Actual web app analytics are crazy. What do you mean 6 visitors to my site had glashaus-restaurant.de as the referrer?! Looks like a nice restaurant though.
January 3, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Actual web app analytics are crazy. What do you mean 6 visitors to my site had glashaus-restaurant.de as the referrer?! Looks like a nice restaurant though.
A 9 AM flight on new years day is not my dumbest decision, but I can't think of another one right now.
January 1, 2026 at 1:05 PM
A 9 AM flight on new years day is not my dumbest decision, but I can't think of another one right now.
When I'm sick I subconsciously play it up when answering the door. Like the doordash guy needs to know I'm not lazy. Not this time at least.
December 31, 2025 at 2:32 AM
When I'm sick I subconsciously play it up when answering the door. Like the doordash guy needs to know I'm not lazy. Not this time at least.
Only using GitHub for personal stuff makes the GitHub Unwrapped kinda weird. 1 whole PR Merged all year!
December 24, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Only using GitHub for personal stuff makes the GitHub Unwrapped kinda weird. 1 whole PR Merged all year!
I always forget Twitter's name changed until the once a month I type twitter[dot]com and it redirects to X. Hoping this works so I can completely stop checking in on it.
US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk’s X www.reuters.com/technology/u...
US startup seeks to reclaim Twitter trademarks 'abandoned' by Musk’s X
A fledgling social media platform has asked the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel trademarks for Twitter so it can take them for itself, contending that billionaire Elon Musk’s X Corp has aba...
www.reuters.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I always forget Twitter's name changed until the once a month I type twitter[dot]com and it redirects to X. Hoping this works so I can completely stop checking in on it.
44 days 16 hours listening to podcasts this year. No, I don't think I have a problem.
December 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
44 days 16 hours listening to podcasts this year. No, I don't think I have a problem.
I have so many questions. (Please don't make me ask them, there's only 2. Fine, only 1. But I can think of more depending on your response.)
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have so many questions. (Please don't make me ask them, there's only 2. Fine, only 1. But I can think of more depending on your response.)
At least next time Netflix raises prices we'll know the real reason.
Netflix is now in exclusive talks to acquire Warner Bros after the bidding war
If they agree to a deal and then it gets blocked, Netflix will still pay Warner Bros $5B
(via The Wrap)
If they agree to a deal and then it gets blocked, Netflix will still pay Warner Bros $5B
(via The Wrap)
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
At least next time Netflix raises prices we'll know the real reason.
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Attending Boston Code Camp tomorrow?
You can track your favorite sessions and see progress throughout the day by using the cool Sessionize mobile web page / app! boston-code-camp-39.sessionize.com - it's very helpful!
See you at Code Camp!
You can track your favorite sessions and see progress throughout the day by using the cool Sessionize mobile web page / app! boston-code-camp-39.sessionize.com - it's very helpful!
See you at Code Camp!
Boston Code Camp 39
Mobile app & schedule website
boston-code-camp-39.sessionize.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Attending Boston Code Camp tomorrow?
You can track your favorite sessions and see progress throughout the day by using the cool Sessionize mobile web page / app! boston-code-camp-39.sessionize.com - it's very helpful!
See you at Code Camp!
You can track your favorite sessions and see progress throughout the day by using the cool Sessionize mobile web page / app! boston-code-camp-39.sessionize.com - it's very helpful!
See you at Code Camp!
Still a lot of work to do, but these lighthouse scores feel great for a backend developer.
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Still a lot of work to do, but these lighthouse scores feel great for a backend developer.
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Boston Code Camp is pleased to welcome AL Rodriguez who will present "Setting Up a C# Pit of Success" at their November 22nd event. Registration is free and open - buff.ly/zpsvf4s @programmeral.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Boston Code Camp is pleased to welcome AL Rodriguez who will present "Setting Up a C# Pit of Success" at their November 22nd event. Registration is free and open - buff.ly/zpsvf4s @programmeral.com
A lot of good stuff in the news today. It's nice.
November 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
A lot of good stuff in the news today. It's nice.
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And now our rewinds of all MCU films in Phase 4 are complete. About a year to finish up the tv shows from that timeframe. Our tentative schedule is on our site at: www.mcurewind.com/release-sche...
This week we finish rewinding Spider-Man: Far From Home! This is the final third of the film, from Peter pulling himself up the side of the train to the end of the film. www.mcurewind.com/427-spiderma... #Marvel #MCU #SpiderMan
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
And now our rewinds of all MCU films in Phase 4 are complete. About a year to finish up the tv shows from that timeframe. Our tentative schedule is on our site at: www.mcurewind.com/release-sche...
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the Aspire discord saw it first - new shirt dropped to celebrate the site launch www.bonfire.com/friends-dont... 🤌🏼
Friends don't let friends write YAML | Bonfire
Aspire (https://aspire.dev) has your back. 💫. To celebrate Aspire's new website, aspire.dev, we're launching this special edition shirt with proceeds going to Feeding...
www.bonfire.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the Aspire discord saw it first - new shirt dropped to celebrate the site launch www.bonfire.com/friends-dont... 🤌🏼
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This week we start rewinding Spider-Man: Far From Home! This is the middle section of the film, When the field trip arrives in Prague to Spider-Man getting hit by a train and Mysterio redirecting the field trip. www.mcurewind.com/426-spiderma... #Marvel #MCU #SpiderMan
Enter: Night Monkey
Enter: Night Monkey
October 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This week we start rewinding Spider-Man: Far From Home! This is the middle section of the film, When the field trip arrives in Prague to Spider-Man getting hit by a train and Mysterio redirecting the field trip. www.mcurewind.com/426-spiderma... #Marvel #MCU #SpiderMan
Enter: Night Monkey
Enter: Night Monkey
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People outside tech don’t get how massive a blow the $100K/year foreign worker fee is. 66% of Silicon Valley’s tech workers are foreign-born.
Even if some have green cards, that’s still a huge percentage hit with massive fees plus it limits the pipeline for new talent the industry relies on.
Even if some have green cards, that’s still a huge percentage hit with massive fees plus it limits the pipeline for new talent the industry relies on.
Two-thirds of Silicon Valley tech workers are immigrants: study
In Silicon Valley, the California region synonymous with innovation in the tech field, 66% of workers in tech were born outside of the U.S., according to research released this month.
www.audacy.com
September 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People outside tech don’t get how massive a blow the $100K/year foreign worker fee is. 66% of Silicon Valley’s tech workers are foreign-born.
Even if some have green cards, that’s still a huge percentage hit with massive fees plus it limits the pipeline for new talent the industry relies on.
Even if some have green cards, that’s still a huge percentage hit with massive fees plus it limits the pipeline for new talent the industry relies on.
The yearly .NET performance improvements blog post is out. So if you're like me, time to read the article that's way smarter and us.
devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...
devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...
Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - .NET Blog
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
devblogs.microsoft.com
September 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The yearly .NET performance improvements blog post is out. So if you're like me, time to read the article that's way smarter and us.
devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...
devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perfo...
The blue theme has been removed. This might be what finally pushes me to Rider.
And the big feature of Visual Studio 2026 is *checks notes* more A.I. Should have seen that one coming.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...
devblogs.microsoft.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The blue theme has been removed. This might be what finally pushes me to Rider.
And the big feature of Visual Studio 2026 is *checks notes* more A.I. Should have seen that one coming.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...
devblogs.microsoft.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
And the big feature of Visual Studio 2026 is *checks notes* more A.I. Should have seen that one coming.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...
Video 9 in the my badly named Very Opinionated ASP.NET Core Architecture series is now on YouTube. This one changes the C# Cake build to publish the app to a Docker Image and uses a GitHub Actions pipeline to publish to a container registry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwH...
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Video 9 in the my badly named Very Opinionated ASP.NET Core Architecture series is now on YouTube. This one changes the C# Cake build to publish the app to a Docker Image and uses a GitHub Actions pipeline to publish to a container registry.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpwH...
The disappointing news just keeps coming this weekend.
August 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The disappointing news just keeps coming this weekend.
Talking about nulls and not-nulls in C# in 2 weeks at a ONETUG Meetup!
www.meetup.com/onetug/event...
www.meetup.com/onetug/event...
Avoiding null! in C#, Wed, Sep 10, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Null references are a problem that can show up anywhere. As developers, we have to litter out code with null checks. Thankfully C# has a feature to help with that, Nullable
www.meetup.com
August 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Talking about nulls and not-nulls in C# in 2 weeks at a ONETUG Meetup!
www.meetup.com/onetug/event...
www.meetup.com/onetug/event...
Nothing like your A/C breaking in the middle of summer to remind you how much the past sucked.
August 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Nothing like your A/C breaking in the middle of summer to remind you how much the past sucked.