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
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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...
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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.
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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!
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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
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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.
If you're going to @confooca.bsky.social next year, you can vote on any sessions that have already been submitted. (You have to be signed in)
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
While you're there, you might as well tell the organizers if any sessions by this weirdo look good to you
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
While you're there, you might as well tell the organizers if any sessions by this weirdo look good to you
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
August 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you're going to @confooca.bsky.social next year, you can vote on any sessions that have already been submitted. (You have to be signed in)
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
While you're there, you might as well tell the organizers if any sessions by this weirdo look good to you
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
While you're there, you might as well tell the organizers if any sessions by this weirdo look good to you
confoo.ca/en/2026/call...
The main reason I don't like the current crop of A.I. tech is you can't trust it. For all of history, computers gave you definitive answers that could be traced back to a known source of truth. But we trained computers to answer with vibes and that won't end well.
August 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The main reason I don't like the current crop of A.I. tech is you can't trust it. For all of history, computers gave you definitive answers that could be traced back to a known source of truth. But we trained computers to answer with vibes and that won't end well.
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And here's video 8 in the Very Opinionated ASP.NET Core Architecture series. This one adds a build application using C# Cake to compile and package up the app.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39J...
August 6, 2025 at 1:55 AM
And here's video 8 in the Very Opinionated ASP.NET Core Architecture series. This one adds a build application using C# Cake to compile and package up the app.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w39J...
Video 7 is up. This one is about codifying our code by writing a code analyzer and a source code generator. Plus pointing out some benefits we get from spending the extra time doing that extra work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggK...
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Video 7 is up. This one is about codifying our code by writing a code analyzer and a source code generator. Plus pointing out some benefits we get from spending the extra time doing that extra work.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tggK...
If you ever watch/listen/read any of the content I create, then please, never tell me. I don't need to be halfway through a stupid joke and realize someone I know will witness it.
July 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If you ever watch/listen/read any of the content I create, then please, never tell me. I don't need to be halfway through a stupid joke and realize someone I know will witness it.
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It's Predictin' Time! With #FantasticFour coming out in a week, we sat down to predict what might happen in the film. www.mcurewind.com/ff-predictions #Marvel #MCU
July 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
It's Predictin' Time! With #FantasticFour coming out in a week, we sat down to predict what might happen in the film. www.mcurewind.com/ff-predictions #Marvel #MCU
*Spoilers for The Bear*
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He can't be that good of a chef. He's never beaten Bobby Flay.
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He can't be that good of a chef. He's never beaten Bobby Flay.
July 18, 2025 at 12:54 AM
*Spoilers for The Bear*
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He can't be that good of a chef. He's never beaten Bobby Flay.
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He can't be that good of a chef. He's never beaten Bobby Flay.
Due to a scheduling issue I'll be speaking at the Greater Lansing User Group for .NET Developers (GLUGNET) this Thursday instead of much later. We'll be talking about the features in C#/.NET to help us setup a Pit of Success in our projects. It's free AND virtual!
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Setting Up a C# Pit of Success with AL Rodriguez, Thu, Jul 17, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Writing code is only \~40% of software development work. Maintaining high-quality code is maybe another \~20%. Reviewing PRs and updating dependencies are just some of the
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July 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Due to a scheduling issue I'll be speaking at the Greater Lansing User Group for .NET Developers (GLUGNET) this Thursday instead of much later. We'll be talking about the features in C#/.NET to help us setup a Pit of Success in our projects. It's free AND virtual!
www.meetup.com/glugnet/even...
www.meetup.com/glugnet/even...
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This week we take a short break from the MCU and rewind an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With Season 3 Episode 9: The Wish! www.mcurewind.com/411-skrull-b... #Marvel #MCU
The Wisher
The Wisher
July 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This week we take a short break from the MCU and rewind an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With Season 3 Episode 9: The Wish! www.mcurewind.com/411-skrull-b... #Marvel #MCU
The Wisher
The Wisher
Trying to buy a domain for a new project and every idea I have is taken but not used. I blame all programmers for this. Damnit people, stop doing that thing we all do.
July 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Trying to buy a domain for a new project and every idea I have is taken but not used. I blame all programmers for this. Damnit people, stop doing that thing we all do.