Jeff Fritz

Folks: if you haven't tried C# and .NET for web development in the last 10 years, there is a pleasant surprise waiting for you. .NET is a fast, productive, open-source, command-line-first ecosystem of programming languages and tools that you can use for free

@bdsams I want to spend more time with GPT5.4 and the structures that I have around my project and see if that's just as productive

@bdsams Honestly, I get more value out of focused skills, agents, and better structured planning documents than a new model

Today, I used the new Opus 4.7 model for a few hours on my live coding stream. Did we notice a significant increase in productivity or accuract? No

@davidfowl I'm spending them writing fiction.. something creative.. something different

Are you spending your tokens on breadth or depth?

@MrJacks0n nah.. they were logging in with a local account. Looks like they brought the laptop to work one day, used the work wifi, and the company put their security policy on the machine

@csharpfritz It's a known issue, find the key, probably in their onedrive.

Hey internet friends, I need some help: I have a family member who just applied the Windows April 2026 patch to his home business laptop and it forced a reboot and is demanding a bitlocker key. The problem is: he didn't bitlocker his laptop. There's no key on his account online. What can he do?

@WithinRafael @rgeekuk @pinchojasp Agreed Refael... that's what I recommended he research. Lessons learned the hard way. Backup your data... OneDrive, Google Drive, iCloud, DropBox.. one of those services can go a LONG way

@csharpfritz @rgeekuk @pinchojasp A kindly worded email to that company could be enough to convince IT to dig the BitLocker key out of Active Directory. But will take some time and luck. That's sucks, thanks for the reminder to check my backup plan.

@rgeekuk @pinchojasp That's the guess... except he left that company more than a year ago

@csharpfritz @pinchojasp They should have the key then ?

@rgeekuk @pinchojasp I suspect that when he took his laptop to work one day and used the corporate wifi during lunch, they activated a security profile on his machine and the next time he rebooted it Bitlocker'd his machine

@csharpfritz @pinchojasp was it signed in with another account ?

@schnoll @pinchojasp you're right.. the hardware is still usable The content and everything that he was using the PC for is a total loss

@csharpfritz @pinchojasp It's not a total loss. While you've lost access to the data on the drive, you can always wipe the drive, reinstall the OS and your apps, and continue to use the PC. You won't have your data, of course, but you will have a working PC.

@pinchojasp Yes, checked there... the Bitlocker key was not saved online The PC is a total loss

@csharpfritz Did he check account.microsoft.com/devices/recove… or Onedrive/Documents? What's the pc model?

@OLuizMacedo Unfortunately, the support team reviewed and declared the PC a total loss

@csharpfritz Ping me on teams if you want and I can share a friend that probably made that update and he can try to help?

@MoreLawLessJust Yea... this is a non-technical family member and they didn't have backups or use cloud storage too reliably

@csharpfritz Restore the backup they did prior to applying updates. This should be a meme.

@sunchar Yea.. we checked the Microsoft account. No keys were present

@csharpfritz Did he check if it is on his Microsoft account? Some time ago, a friend PC got locked and he did not remember if he enabled bitlocker. The recovery key was on his Microsoft account

@SchuylkillTech yea... that's what we were thinking also. We haven't found these temporary work-arounds that it references... and he really can't wipe his laptop, especially on tax day!

@csharpfritz Might be this: bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft…

Something answered... youtube.com/shorts/nBM5gHC…

Hot take: LLMs are REALLY bad with dates. If you need to do anything with the date, and even telling the LLM about 'tomorrow' it will calculate the date incorrectly Always have this fall back to a tool or force the current local date and time into your prompt

FLYERS WIN!!!

@maddymontaquila @snn_nr What would you like to do with Aspireify?

@snn_nr @csharpfritz ^^^^^^

@maddymontaquila how can I get invite for aspireify.net 🤔