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Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft. Views are my own.
Needlr reduces the boilerplate for your web api initialization code.

... And it's funny, right? Because dependency injection, inject, needle... Okay, I'll stick to writing code and I'll let someone else come up with the names.

Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH5HEkcMsMg
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Are plugins REALLY any different than adding extension methods?

The amount of code is definitely similar! However, we don't need a central point in the code to go update every time we want to extend or change functionality.

Watch here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH5HEkcMsMg
January 8, 2026 at 5:01 PM
GitHub Spaces is awesome for looking across my multiple repositories.

If we have all of our code cloned, many tools can look across folders. But having these capabilities all from the web with cloud agents... absolute dream.

Watch more here:
https://youtu.be/ABtwd3V3KFI
January 6, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I STILL use ChatGPT for coding, but... I use this tool from GitHub very frequently.

If I'm exploring and need guidance from web searches, ChatGPT still works great. But GitHub Spaces works insanely well when looking across my repositories!

Watch more here:
https://youtu.be/ABtwd3V3KFI
January 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM