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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · 13d

I've gotten really far with Cloudflare Pages. Looks like their limits are on file count, not total project size. These limits are for the free plan: developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platfo...

Limits

Below are limits observed by the Cloudflare Free plan. For more details on removing these limits, refer to the Cloudflare plans page.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Sep 10

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...

Performance Improvements in .NET 10 - .NET Blog

Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.

devblogs.microsoft.com

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Sep 9

The blue theme has been removed. This might be what finally pushes me to Rider.

AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Sep 9

And the big feature of Visual Studio 2026 is *checks notes* more A.I. Should have seen that one coming.
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

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Sep 9

And the big feature of Visual Studio 2026 is *checks notes* more A.I. Should have seen that one coming.
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

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Sep 8

Hell yeah, a puzzle that takes advantage of that weird bug.

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Sep 7

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...

AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 30

The disappointing news just keeps coming this weekend.

Headline saying Mortal Kombat 2 is delayed

AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 28

Talking about nulls and not-nulls in C# in 2 weeks at a ONETUG Meetup!
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

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 27

Nothing like your A/C breaking in the middle of summer to remind you how much the past sucked.

AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 23

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...

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 22

I should have read the docs. That's on me.

AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 22

That's cool, I hadn't seen that before. Not sure what we gain from using the task over calling `dotnet run...`, but I guess it's more descriptive, which I like. Thanks for the tip!

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 19

Human: How many Bs are in strawberry?
Computer: What even IS a strawberry, man?

Human: You can't be serious
Computer: 2. And don't call me Shirley

Human: That's wrong. And I didn't set you up for that joke
Computer: You are correct Shirley. There are 3 Rs in strawberry

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 19

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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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · Aug 17

Email addresses are very simple, and you will score highly in this quiz.

e-mail.wtf

Email is Easy

Everyone knows what an email address is, right?

e-mail.wtf

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 6

It's part 1 of 2 involving builds. The next video will take the Cake build and run it from a GitHub Actions pipeline.

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Aug 6

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...

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Jul 21

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...

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Jul 20

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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MCU_Rewind @mcurewind.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Jul 18

*Spoilers for The Bear*
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He can't be that good of a chef. He's never beaten Bobby Flay.

AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Jul 16

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...

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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MCU_Rewind @mcurewind.bsky.social · Jul 14

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

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AL Rodriguez @programmeral.com · Jul 12

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.

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