it's been a couple weeks since we had all 17 windows in our house replaced. It's amazing the improvement of both noise reduction and temperature control.
hopefully in another year or two we will have the siding replaced with modern insulated siding to increasing both even more.
Fate you cruel mistress! I was feeling tempted to go to the record store near my office today as it was such a beautiful day but talked myself out of it as I was busy.
I just found out Billy Corgan, of The Smashing Pumpkins, was at the store and I could have meet him!
😩😩
Just picked up a Intel B70 Pro to do some AI testing. With 32gb of vram I can load much larger models than my current 16gb RTX 5060ti card.
BitCheck 1.0.0 is out! 🎉
A cross-platform .NET 10 CLI for monitoring large datasets like media collections, backups, archives, and photo libraries for silent corruption.
Fast XXHash64 checks, recursive scanning, smart detection, and more.
github.com/AlanBarber/bitche…
Been working on a rather large feature, took a break and had the AI get building some unit tests. Ran into an issue with some 3rd party EF sql extension not working with sqlite which we use for our unit testing.
Dang AI tried to rewrite half my repo to work around the limitation
the worst part was it broke a ton of business logic in doing so...
it got so focused on trying to make the tests run it was willing to destroy the code it was supposed to be testing.
Add that to things you need to add to your agent.md to prevent!
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It's Lightning Talk night! ⚡
If you're in the Columbus area, join us tonight at 5:30 PM for the Central Ohio .NET Developers Group. Expect a fast-paced evening of .NET, AI, tools, tips, and plenty of developer fun!
#dotnet #Columbus #TechMeetup
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Next time someone says ".NET is just for boring enterprise CRUD apps", show them TensorSharp.
A full local LLM inference engine written in C#. Not a wrapper. Not calling into Python.
.NET can build serious AI systems.
tensorsharp.ai/
#dotnet #csharp #ai #llm
Your constructor has 17 parameters.
The Builder Pattern is here to stage an intervention. My latest post walks through when to use it, how to implement it cleanly in C#, and why your future self will thank you.
alanbarber.com/post/the-buil…
#dotnet #csharp #designpatterns
Can someone explain why no LLM creator is focusing on making a stripped down, rapidly released coding model that gets monthly releases trained in the latest technology documentation? Opus can write me an essay on George Washington, but it doesn't know dotnet 10 was released!
Hey Central Ohio developers! It's not too late to sign up for tomorrows FREE local Microsoft BUILD event!
developer.microsoft.com/en-u…
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Microsoft Build //localhost:columbus
20 June, 2026 | 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
This in-person event is for developers who want to design, build, and deploy real-world AI solutions. Live demos, guided labs, and practical developer workflows.
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This might be my greatest achievement in life... no more worrying about watering my little garden again. I've automated it!
It seems there is very large disconnect forming between what AI models cost to run and what users are willing to spend.
When I can end up paying upwards of $5-25 for a single prompt and not even get a correct response that's unacceptable.
4 small feature requests with my Squad using Github Copilot. burned up almost all my tokens in about an hour... 🤯
Based upon this, I would assume a $20+/hour burn rate to keep using Squad, which is not sustainable for side projects that don't earn profit.
