Dylan McCarthy | DylanDevEx | Microsoft MVP

@willvelida Nice, I am a bit behind on MCP integration into custom agents, been working with the GitHub Copilot SDK so need to get up to speed on how this is configured. I'll be watching out for this OWASP series.

Now that I can use my MCP server in my agent, I'm going to do another OWASP Top 10 series, this time focusing on MCP servers! This first article is about Preventing Token Mismanagement and Secret Exposure in MCP Servers: open.substack.com/pub/willvelida…

Don't miss out on NDC Melbourne, 29 April - 1 May 2025! Get your tickets now 💥 🌐 3-Day Event for Software Developers 🎙️ 65+ Speakers 📢 70+ Sessions 💻 8 Workshops Get your tickets now 👇

Excited to share that I'll be presenting at @NDC_Conferences in Melbourne next year. Going to be talking about Platform Engineering vs DevOps ndcmelbourne.com/slots/platform…

DDD by Night (the last one for the year AND before DDD Melbourne 2025) is on tonight, and it's not too late to join! RSVP here: meetup.com/ddd-melbourne-… #DDDbyNight #community

Hey everyone! We have 2 exciting talks on Wed 6th Nov at the Arinco Melbourne office. We have @DMCAsAService - GitHub Models for fast prototyping! And @DaniWeerasinghe about mastering Azure Bicep! Looking forward to seeing you all there. RSVP here: meetup.com/melb-net-meetu…

Day 3 at @PAXAus, going solo today but that just means time for D&D

Ready for #PAXAus Day 2. Maybe some lamb for breakfast?

My wife had a brush with death at @PAXAus #thesims

Liz and I are all ready for day 1 at #paxaus2024

Decided it might finally be time to start working on some certs, first cab off the rank is the new GitHub Copilot one: credly.com/badges/186313c…

@_bron_ @PAXAus Nice, while I'm not into cosplay my wife has a Abigail from Stardew Valley one she will be in most likely on Friday :)

4 cosplays pretty much all done and ready for @PAXAus! Me: gothic steampunk Nat: Fallout vault dweller Kai: Jujutsu Kaisen character Nerys: Raft character Bring on the weekend 🥳

It's been awhile since I streamed, I will be back to it soon, life has just thrown a few curveballs lately.

@_bron_ Congrats :)

Wow! On Sunday I received one of the best emails of my life - I've been accepted into the Microsoft MVP program for the first time ever! I've always admired other MVPs, and to achieve it now for doing what I love doing every day, and a huge honour. #mvpbuzz #microsoft

@willvelida @MVPAward @lukemurraynz Congrats :) lol might have to set up an impromptu Melbourne MVP pub Meetup when you get back

Emails you do want to get while on leave! Delighted to be accepted as a @MVPAward for Microsoft #Azure Cloud Native technologies! Thanks to @lukemurraynz for the nomination 😊 We are so back!

The DDD Melbourne Call for Proposals (CFP) opens this Sunday, 1 September! 🎙️ Speakers of all backgrounds and experience levels, we want to hear from YOU! #DDDMelb #CFP #techcommunity

No stream tonight, been running workshops for the past two days and need some downtime. Will be back to streaming next week.

Mark your calendars, folks. We're back on Saturday, 22 February 2025, at the Melbourne Town Hall. Take note of these important dates: 📢 1 September 2024: CFP opens 🎟 1 October 2024: Tickets go on sale! #DDDMelb#savethedate #techconference

@david_whitney This is cool, I use my mouse the same way (left handed with right handed button config), I've mainly just moved my keyboard more right to have a more comfortable position for my hand to rest on wsad. Lol never really thought about a custom left handed keypad, looks cool.

Happy left-handed day everyone. By way of celebration, I wanted to share my left-handed gaming setup - mostly because it took *years* to get right. So, I mouse left-handed - in a somewhat unconventional "right handed button configuration" (my middle finger left-clicks, my index finger right clicks) - this means that dedicated left-handed hardware mostly doesn't work for me (hardware button flips and driver requirements) so I mouse-left-handed with ambi-mice. For PC gaming, this is a pain in the ass - because I use my right hand on the left-hand-side of the keyboard so as to avoid having to key rebind literally *every* game I play (and I play a lot of games). For years, my solution to this was a very cheap "Delux T9 Gaming Keyboard" (uk.vicedeal.com/products/delux…). I ended up using this keypad because there was nothing of high quality available for left-handers - none of the usual suspects, Razer, Logitech, etc, made anything but right-handed keypads (where objectively they're the least useful and reguar keyboards work just fine). I'd used all the vaguely ambi ones over the years, the old WolfClaw keypads were a favourite in the mid-00s, but they eventually went out of business and they were never really perfect and I just kinda settled on the Delux T9. Which was "ok" - but really, it had long-travel keys, low quality switches, and felt plastic and cheap to the touch. Once every 6 months I'd google and hope and nobody ever did good left-handed keypad ranges. However, all hope was not lost, and I was gifted and constructed the literal holy grail of left-handed keypads that did not exist by @thisisjofrank The mechanical keyboard scene is full of people with esoteric needs, enter the Sofle Keyboard 1.1 kit - mechboards.co.uk/products/sofle… - a split keyboard kit that uses a Raspbery Pi Pico RP2040 microcontroller. The Sofle keyboard is designed to be a split left/right hand keyboard, but because the two halves are built with their own microcontrollers, we realised that if we customised the keyboard QMK Firmware (qmk.fm) - which is a C firmware that targets different microcontrollers - not only could we only use half of the keyboard rather than the full thing, I could layout shift the left-hand-side of the keyboard across to the right-hand keypad, and build exactly the keyboard I needed without having to re-bind all my games. Anyway, I um, supervised (my hands ain't that steady), Jo soldiering literally ~200 1-2mm soldier points to construct the thing from a kit while I hacked the firmware into shape by building out a custom layout profile for "the left hand side of the keyboard, but on the right hand side". Anyway, it basically worked first time, and took almost an entire day to put together, but it is literally perfect and was the holy grail at the end of a fifteen year mission to find a good keypad for left-handed gamers. If anyone is interested in replicating this process, the linked Sofle kit above + the Elite+Pi will get you there - I'll happily share my firmware modifications.

@Dave_DotNet I've been mainly using entity framework for my database interactions, though I always try to wrap it with an IDatabaseService interface so really could use any of them.

.NET devs ... what do most of your apps use for DB CRUD? Why? 🤔 #dotnet

@NanouuSymeon Not so much to ChatGPT but all the time to GitHub Copilot, especially when I am live coding.

As a Developer, have you ever said "Thank you" to ChatGPT?