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December 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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A while ago, I wrote about how to automatically deploy a passwordless Azure SQL database server using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and Azure Pipelines.

Hot off the press, here’s a similar post for Postgres - using Bicep, EF Core migrations, and GitHub Actions!

www.bensampica.com/post/postgre...
How to automatically deploy a passwordless Azure PostgreSql Server | Ben Sampica
How to create an Azure PostgreSql Server automatically that uses Microsoft Entra authentication, migrates the database using Entity Framework Core, and deploys out the infrastructure automatically wit...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Azure AI Foundry is a hot mess.
December 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...
AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What’s Next
YouTube video by JetBrains
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December 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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on type safety
Frog and Toad illustration edited to say: Frog put the value in an option. "There", he said, "now we will not deref any more null pointers". "But we can unwrap the option," said Toad. "That is true", said Frog.
June 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"One must imagine Sisyphus happy"
A stylized orange and black image of Sisyphus, rolling a rock on a mountain. The rock has a fake Half-Life 3 logo painted over it.
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Me irl
Me looking longingly at the last piece of cold torn up cheese pizza
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Also.

github.com/Raphire/Win1...
GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve you...
A simple, lightweight PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps, disable telemetry, as well as perform various other changes to customize, declutter and improve your Windows experience. Win11D...
github.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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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
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I love Aspire but #dotnetconf why did aspire jump from 9.x to 13.x?
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Odd to see #dotnet Aspire jump from 9.5.2 to 13.0.0… what’s up with that?
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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 .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.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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There are 8 whole people in the entire world who are shocked by this development.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Nov 10
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
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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
A purple dahlia in a container. Some leaves and another purple dahlia and a yellow flower are partially visible. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro. August 2025. Town & Country Village.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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aspire.dev
.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 🎃
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Unbelievable times that this is a serious post.
Master chief in a warthog behind the words “Destroy the Flood”
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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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?...
The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM
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October 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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ardalis.com
Evergreen.
designthinking.lol DESIGN THINKING! Comic @designthinking.lol · Oct 20
With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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.
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September 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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This is the juice
The chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is saying no to Gov. Kim Reynolds' order that flags on public grounds be lowered to half-staff in honor of assassinated conservative figure Charlie Kirk. Jon Green posted on social media that by his "personal authority as Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors," the county, home of Iowa City and the University of Iowa, will defy the governor's order. While condemning Kirk's killing, Green, a Democrat, wrote that he will "not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life's mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only to the mar-ginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic. "Johnson County flags will fly as usual. I will accept any consequence, whether legal or elec-toral, for my decision. It is mine alone," he wrote.
September 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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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
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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/...
Trusted Publishing
Trusted Publishing on nuget.org
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September 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM