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James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

Excited to announce my new course on Dometrain - Solution Architecture Deep Dive.

The #1 feedback I got on the first course was the depth. Don't worry, this ones goes deeper. Deeper into what it actually means to be an architect in 2025.

#dotnet

dometrain.com/course/deep-...

Deep Dive: Solution Architecture

Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 1d

Roger that 🫡 I'll follow the repo.

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 1d

Oh nice, that sounds very cool. Do you have a link?

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 1d

Tell me more..... 🤔

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 1d

No worries, I appreciate your question 👍 when I announced the course on LinkedIn I mentioned it's a follow on. Damn character limits on Bluesky 😂

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 1d

Yeah, I completely agree. Most of the content in the getting started course is around requirements gathering, understanding the business, the domain, the problem etc. I had a lot of feedback on the getting started course that peopple wanted the 'next step'. Which is where this course came from :)

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Luciano Mammino 📙 Node.js Design Patterns @loige.co · 2d

Level up from dev → architect?

Check out James’s latest Dometrain course: modular monoliths, events, C4, observability, ADRs.

Even if you’re not into .NET, you'll get tons of value from it! 🚀

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

Excited to announce my new course on Dometrain - Solution Architecture Deep Dive.

The #1 feedback I got on the first course was the depth. Don't worry, this ones goes deeper. Deeper into what it actually means to be an architect in 2025.

#dotnet

dometrain.com/course/deep-...

Deep Dive: Solution Architecture

Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

Excited to announce my new course on Dometrain - Solution Architecture Deep Dive.

The #1 feedback I got on the first course was the depth. Don't worry, this ones goes deeper. Deeper into what it actually means to be an architect in 2025.

#dotnet

dometrain.com/course/deep-...

Deep Dive: Solution Architecture

Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

Oooo, hadn't heard of Qobuz. Thanks Ryan 👌👌

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

Ok, nice. Is that still the case now? I seem to remember reading that a big company had bought Bandcamp?

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 2d

So Bluesky friends, where would you go to buy high quality albums/music nowadays? As a long time Spotify user (just cancelled) I'm kinda lost as to where to start. iTunes would have been my go to. And I've heard a bunch about Bandcamp.

Discuss...

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

That's Claude Sonnet 4.5, the latest model from Anthropic, "...designed for complex agents, coding, and long-running tasks with enhanced reasoning and computer use capabilities."

Sure, Jan.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 3d

CLAUDE: You can validate and test your dependabot config locally by installing dependabot cli "gh extension install github/gh-dependabot"

ME: "Could not find extension 'github/gh-dependabot' on host github.com"

CLAUDE: My apologies - that extension doesn't exist. I gave you incorrect information.

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 3d

🤢🤢🤢

www.theverge.com/openai/64813...

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Annie Sexton • Comics @anniecomics.bsky.social · 3d

I know we’re tired of AI takes but please please please read The Oatmeal’s take. It’s the best one.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 3d

I've voted on both 'sides' over my relatively short life.

I think think is something we should all be able to get behind, regardless of the 'wing' you consider yourself aligned to.

#tax #uk #politics

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

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Heather Downing @heatherdown.ing · 4d

Thrilled to announce I've joined Yugabyte as a Developer Advocate! 🐘

@yugabytedb.bsky.social takes PostgreSQL and scales it horizontally. I'll focus on developer experience and working with their community.

If you're building with Postgres or vector search, I want to talk to you!

yugabyte.com/ai

Architecting GenAI and RAG Apps with YugabyteDB | Yugabyte

Discover how YugabyteDB's flexible architecture and future-ready foundation can help you build AI-powered, data-driven applications.

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 4d

Yeah, agreed. That's my biggest problem with it. Its definitely useful, and not going away. But it being in everything, and people losing their minds at every new announcement is just getting annoying now 😂

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 4d

Can the over hyping of AI just piss off now please. Yes it will change things. Yes it's here to stay. Yes it has some cool use cases.

Absolutely fed up with all the talk about it. And the forcing of it into places where actually just a nice normal deterministic piece of software would do.

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dan @danabra.mov · 4d

activitypub is “many websites emailing each other”. there’s no prescribed data flow. there’s no shared identity. it’s a bunch of isolated apps that email each other behind the scenes

whereas atproto is more like a set of conventions to allow all apps to act as if their data is in a global database

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NDC Conferences @ndcconferences.com · 11d

Don't miss out on @jameseastham.co.uk and 90 other excellent speakers at NDC London in January! The Early Bird offer ends this Friday ⏰ Secure your tickets now at ndclondon.com 🇬🇧

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Rachel Walters @rachel-walters.bsky.social · 13d

Another petition to spread and sign
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Use Proportional Representation at the next General Election

Change the voting system to Proportional Representation instead of First Past the Post. We think this would eradicate disillusionment and encourage voter participation as people could start to believe...

petition.parliament.uk

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 14d

One of my, if not my #1, favourite sporting competition. Let's go Europe.

#rydercup

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 19d

Stag do ✅ class weekend in Edinburgh, and I made it out alive.

Wins all round.

(The dog didn't join us by the way)

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 22d

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the great question about OTEL, hope the answer made sense. If you've got any follow up questions now or later reach out 😄

James Eastham @jameseastham.co.uk · 23d

Great to catch up with Heitor Lessa and Nicolas Moutschen in Amsterdam yesterday. Always good to catch up with old friends 🎉