James Newton-King ♔

@traskjd These guys show up on our balcony in the summer (Oriental hornbill)

Nice evening Wellington. Joined by a few friends, the local Kaka.

@davidfowl JavaScript runtimes 🤝 terrible cert support

Adding bun support to aspire and am unable to override the CA. Node works, bun does not. github.com/microsoft/aspi…

.NET bet on OpenTelemetry early. It was the right one 💪

Get deep insight into your agent sessions in @code leveraging its new integration for OpenTelemetry. Pull it directly into @aspiredotdev, the only and only @maddymontaquila walks you through it all: youtube.com/watch?v=JsZ3q8…

I want AI to automatically fix builds and tests, so I ask it to run them. But it's wasteful sending the whole context window for "run tests". Coding assistants need some sort of gesture to run build/test steps and only involve AI on failure.

We added error reporting to the Aspire dashboard back in 9.3, over a year ago. What's wild is the 9.3 userbase is now tiny (please upgrade 🙏), yet it generates the most error reports. Telemetry has been invaluable. We've used it to squash errors in every release since 🔨📊

My AI psychosis has subsided.

@davidfowl @kellabyte It looks like it the bad spacing is specific to this screenshot. The screenshot was taken on a really wide monitor, and then half of the timeline graph was cut off. The UI then looks uneven. Maybe a max content width could be added? IDK.

@kellabyte cc @JamesNK

Massaging the profiling telemetry to make sure we can diagnose issues with the aspire cli using the aspire dashboard. #aspiredev

@markpdx724 @aspiredotdev The goal is to be a good GenAI telemetry visualizer. No plans beyond that.

@JamesNK @aspiredotdev Is the idea to flesh this out into a LangFuse type option?

GenAI observability with OpenTelemetry and Aspire 🚀 If you're building AI apps and want better visibility into prompts, model calls, latency, and failures, this one's for you: opentelemetry.io/blog/2026/gena… @aspiredotdev

Aspire 13.3 dashboard and CLI features, day 7: Aspire CLI success ticks were purple. Or black. Or green if you're on Win10. Or green if your terminal doesn't support emoji and you saw a unicode tick: ✓ It's complicated. Now they're consistently green ✅

@flavio_frow github.com/microsoft/aspi…

@JamesNK What's the context? I'd love to learn.

That 1 in a 1000 situation when an AsyncLocal is the right tool for the job 🐴

Aspire 13.3 dashboard and CLI features, day 6: The Aspire CLI can now pull telemetry directly from the standalone dashboard 📊 aspire dashboard run --allow-anonymous aspire agent mcp --dashboard-url http://localhost:18888 Instant AI agent support over your app's telemetry 🤖⚡

@davidfowl AI lets you ship more, and the friction that has always been there becomes intolerable when you double, triple, or more a development team's output. You have to address the friction. If you don't, then you either cap your team's productivity - or ship slop.

@traskjd @edandersen Finding Nandos in Singapore after moving here was a pleasant surprise. IMO, the SG food choices are unbeatable: Nandos Chick-fil-A Din Tai Fung Milo (popular in tropical SEA as a cold drink) And a million quality Chinese, Japanese, and Korean hawker stalls and restaurants

@edandersen thinking of you.

Aspire 13.3 dashboard and CLI features, day 5: Run the Aspire dashboard standalone from the CLI 📊 No Docker container required 🐋☠️ Just call: aspire dashboard run

@davidfowl It's a data issue. Whitespace is trimmed and can't be restore code blocks github.com/microsoft/aspi… cc @davidpine7

@JamesNK Oh I see some fixes we need to do for code blocks :)

Aspire 13.3 dashboard and CLI features, day 4: Dread it, run from it, Markdown arrives all the same 😈 Markdown rendering in the CLI has been improved to support tables, lists, block quotes, and more. Check it out with the docs command: aspire docs get whats-new-in-aspire-133

Aspire 13.3 dashboard and CLI features, day 3: There is a small QoL improvement for setting parameters in the dashboard. The grid cell value for unset parameters is now a clickable link that opens the Set Parameter UI 🔐