Chris Vanderplank (Intrepid Developer)

AI is not a future thing to think about later. 🤖 It is already changing how people code, learn, write, and research. The best time to start was earlier. The next best time is now. 🚀 Start small, stay practical, and build your own workflow as you go. More on how I am approaching it: intrepid-developer.com/blog/how-i-use… #AI #Coding #Developers #Productivity #OpenCode

2026 is the year of AI. But we use it differently at junior, mid, senior levels. Build foundations, collab with agents, orchestrate teams. Here's my 2026 thoughts on how to get started with AI: intrepid-developer.com/blog/my-though… #AIforDevelopers

Just published my first guest post: How we tamed distributed system chaos by adopting Aspire on a big brownfield project! 🚀 Local dev is now painless, testing is consistent, and “it works on my machine” is history. Big thanks to @vovapylypch for the edit! 🙌 Read it here: newsletter.opsflowhq.com/p/streamlining… #DotNet #Aspire #NETAspire #Azure #DevOps

🚀 Level up your dev skills by learning the SQL fundamentals behind every app you build. Queries, joins, SQL Projects, Dapper, it’s all here. 👉 intrepid-developer.com/blog/sql-basic…

@AzureSupport @AzureSupport please can you update your status page to clearly say AFD is down…When are we likely to see some mitigations?? All of our services are dead at the moment and I really don’t want to have to mess around with our DNS to bypass front door….

We’re investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services. Customers may experience intermittent request failures or latency. Updates will be provided shortly.

.NET Aspire ❌ Aspire ✅🤌🏼 we're officially rebranding - starting with our shiny new website, aspire.dev 💫 join us for a special edition #AspiriFriday to wrap up the week and celebrate with the team! see you there 🎃

Aspire 9.5 has landed 🚀 and it's packed with updates across the dashboard, CLI, and more! Read the blog for some highlights or check out the What's New for the deep dive. Plus, join us at 4p PST for a live stream unboxing at @aspiredotdev" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@aspiredotdev! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announc…

SignalR isn’t for every app, but when you need real-time comms, it shines 🌟 In my new blog, I cover what SignalR is, when to use it, and how I built it into my Aspire Chat App Demo. Check it out: intrepid-developer.com/blog/real-time…

🎉 A new version of Aspire just shipped, 9.4 and it's one of the biggest releases yet. Very proud of what the team was able to accomplish. 📣 Blog post -devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announc… 📝 What's new - learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/a… #dotnet #aspire

🤓 Level up your Blazor game! My new blog guides you through SSR, Server, WASM, and Auto, with practical tips for every .NET developer. Check it out: intrepid-developer.com/blog/blazor-re… #Blazor #dotnet #LearnToCode

Aspire isn’t just about the end result of deploying somewhere. It’s more than that, I see it as a developer tool that improves the whole dev experience. The Aspire packages (Client and Host integrations) make it super easy for everyone to add these services with all the resiliency, observably, etc out of the box. I think it helps to reduce the learning curve when onboarding as well. Now we’ve adopted it we have a couple of secrets to add to the AppHost and that’s it. The dashboard is super helpful as well for local development.

@davidfowl @IntrepidDev1988 I'm desperately trying to understand who or what Aspire is for. I used dotnet for 7 years, I know the ins and outs of Docker. Having to publish it to a docker compose is more confusing, not less. Is there a backend where Aspire just does the work itself and I self host?

Aspire gets a lot of flak for being “vendor lock in”, so here’s an excellent blog post about how to deploy it to digital ocean or any docker host intrepid-developer.com/blog/aspire-wi… By @IntrepidDev1988 #dotnet #aspire

Want to know a bit more about what Aspire does behind the scenes? Checkout @davidfowl blog, very insightful

🚀 Thinking about .NET Aspire? You don’t have to go all-in from day one! Start local, improve your dev experience, and expand as Aspire matures. Check out my step-by-step guide: intrepid-developer.com/blog/adopting-… #dotnet #Aspire #DevExperience

@timheuer @davidfowl @timheuer can you message me the error. It’s using Blazor Interactive server so shouldn’t really have any issues as it’s just a signalR connection to the server 🙂 I use Mac and Edge too 😀

@davidfowl @IntrepidDev1988 blazor error on the site, not rendering for me (Edge on macOS)

We’ve gotten lots of feedback about implementing auth in ASP.NET Core. If you want to complain/talk about with us, click the link below! #dotnet #aspnetcore userinterviews.com/projects/OYmGg…

🚀 Want to build modern, interactive web apps with Blazor using C# and .NET? Check out my latest guide on getting started with Blazor, covering render modes, project structure, and navigation! 🔗 intrepid-developer.com/blog/getting-s… #blazor #dotnet #WebDev #csharp

I've updated my Getting Started with .Net Aspire blog with the latest changes in Aspire 9.3. See how to publish Aspire to Azure 🚀

This is one of the most complete aspire samples I’ve seen so far. #dotnet #aspire github.com/foxminchan/Boo…

If you have some free time bookmark this video. There’s a significant shift coming to software engineering. I’ve been playing with the coding agent and even though it’s very early, it’s very promising! youtu.be/CKAs9bRMDcQ?si… #agents #copilot #copilotagent