@slace

DevRel at GitHub/Microsoft doing .NET and GitHub Copilot. Maintainer of https://xitter.cf/t.co/Yrm64gZFlo Pronouns: he/him

 Sydney, Australia
aaron-powell.com
Joined November 2008
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Wondering what I'm doing at Microsoft? I've joined the @azureadvocates Developer Relations team here in Australia. If you run a community, startup or are a student looking for support, reach out 😁
Thomas Lewis@TommyLee7 Jan 2019
Please welcome @slace as a new member of the Microsoft @azureadvocates Developer Relations team who will be supporting developer communities, students & startups in Australia & globally. #devrel
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UMMMMMM Did someone say canvas support in @code?!??! GLORIOUS! Copilot app, CLI, and now code! code.visualstudio.com/update…
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ErikEJ
@ErikEJOct 15
dotNET blog: Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET ift.tt/NFh9IqO

Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET - .NET Blog

Learn how the new dotnetup tool helps macOS and Linux developers install, manage, and update user-local .NET SDKs and runtimes.

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Get ready to make smarter Al decisions with @slace, Principal Developer Advocate, Microsoft! Learn how to optimise tokens, make the most out of Github Copilot and build tailored experiences at AI Genius Season 6: msft.it/6017aSchc @MSFTReactor
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We're going live!
Aaron Powell@slaceOct 12
Tonight (well, tonight Sydney time!) I'm going to be doing an off-the-cuff session about how I use GitHub Copilot, things I'm building with it, and tips on how to make the best use of it. 🕧 6pm ADST 🔗 meetup.com/coding-night-anz/…

GitHub Copilot Unplugged, Mon, Oct 12, 2026, 8:00 PM | Meetup

Well, not "unplugged" like without an internet connection, but more without a plan! Join Aaron from the GitHub DevRel team to learn how he uses Copilot, the sorts of things

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Tonight (well, tonight Sydney time!) I'm going to be doing an off-the-cuff session about how I use GitHub Copilot, things I'm building with it, and tips on how to make the best use of it. 🕧 6pm ADST 🔗 meetup.com/coding-night-anz/…

GitHub Copilot Unplugged, Mon, Oct 12, 2026, 8:00 PM | Meetup

Well, not "unplugged" like without an internet connection, but more without a plan! Join Aaron from the GitHub DevRel team to learn how he uses Copilot, the sorts of things

meetup.com
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Dan Wahlin
@DanWahlinOct 8
Meet Agent Buddy! 🤖 A desk buddy for your AI coding agents. It shows when GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, Grok and others are working, need you, or are done. Run it on an ESP32 device, or use the new desktop app. No device needed! Website: getagentbuddy.com Repo: github.com/DanWahlin/agent-b… Special thanks to @darrenjrobinson and @bradygaster for their PRs!
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React is just XSLT for JSON
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Pierce Boggan
@piercebogganOct 9
What should we improve in the GitHub Copilot app?
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Jerry 🖖
@jerrynixonOct 7
HELP ME (please RT) Q: You are a developer. You use @sqlserver. Do you prefer @visualstudio or @code for real-world dev? 🙏
45%Visual Studio
32%VS Code
23%SQL Management Studio
0%I'm not a dev/sql user
31 votes • Final results
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Kyle Daigle
@kdaigleOct 7
The busiest single repo on GitHub saw roughly a billion requests in ONE MONTH. Today, we shared how we’re rebuilding GitHub’s storage layer (without changing how you use GitHub) decoupling compute & storage so reads and writes scale independently. Quicker pushes, pulls, and a platform that stays fast as more agents and developers code. We’re designing against some of the largest workloads on the platform so there’s headroom for everyone. More below on how this works and excited to show you more at @GitHub Universe. 👇
GitHub
@githubOct 6
Git activity more than doubled between September 2025 and August 2026, reaching 473.3B events per month. We’re rebuilding our Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.

Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development

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@WindowsOct 6
Tomorrow, see what’s next from Windows, @surface, and @NVIDIARTXSpark. Tune in live at 10:00 AM PT: msft.it/6011aoEeW
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Hot on the heels of @aspiredotdev releasing 13.6.0, we've shipped support in the Community Toolkit - github.com/CommunityToolkit/…

Release v13.6.0 · CommunityToolkit/Aspire

Bit of a smaller release (feature wise) this time from us, but a lot of cleanup has been undertaken. Key features are: Support for Aspire 13.6.0 Removal of MinIO as the project is no longer mainta...

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Windows Blogs@windowsblogSep 29
WSL containers is now generally available msft.it/6014acIIa

WSL containers is now generally available

WSL is central to our commitment to making Windows the best place to build, run and manage Linux workloads. As AI, cloud-native development, containers, and open-source ecosystems continue to...

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For anyone who's got nothing better to do at 7pm, I'm going to be talking about AI + hardware hacking - meetup.com/en-au/sydney-alt-…

Aaron Powell - Hardware hacking with the help of AI, Tue, 29 Sept 2026, 7:00 pm | Meetup

Welcoming back our long time speaker Aaron! **Hardware hacking stuff with AI** [Aaron Powell](https://www.aaron-powell.com/) I grew up playing with electronics, I disasse

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Get the icon pack for Visual Studio now with many more and new icons that look spectacular - even on high-dpi screens marketplace.visualstudio.com…

File Icons - Visual Studio Marketplace

Extension for Visual Studio - Adds icons for files that are not recognized by Solution Explorer

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Created a canvas app for Copilot app today that helps me manage dependabot PRs on a project. If there are multiple of the same update (such as typescript-eslint in the picture) I can get it to combine them into a single PR and close all of the individual ones.
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Ever watched your coding agent confidently write massive amounts of JavaScript for a simple swipe gesture, only for the animation to stutter? 😅 Watch our side-by-side test: with Modern Web Guidance enabled, the coding agent pulls expert-vetted swipe-to-remove guide into its context window, handling features like scroll snap and intersection observer with ease → goo.gle/mwg
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I wrote a blog for @VisualStudio on just how easily you can use the Parallel Stacks view to start debugging memory dumps from production systems - devblogs.microsoft.com/visua… There's a companion blog on the .NET blog about how to write a dump collector

Today I will... debug a production crash - Visual Studio Blog

Learn effective debugging techniques for C# applications and how to tackle performance issues with memory dumps.

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You know what I want, WhatsApp to allow me to create a "subaccount" that I could give to an AI agent in something like @openclaw rather than having to get a phone number, creating a new account for that number, and so on.
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The Project
@theprojecttvSep 21
More than 800,000 bees have been stolen from properties in Far North Queensland in what beekeepers believe was a highly organised operation. Dozens of colonies were targeted, with brood boxes carefully removed without damaging the hives, leading industry figures to suspect whoever was responsible had specialist knowledge and equipment.
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