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Perfection gets more perfect. New KnockoutJS release: github.com/knockout/knock… 🔥

@maddymontaquila People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones 🐴

guess who chose the pics

The Aspire team has a Monday meeting with demos. Sharing the "private" video publically (all this is on GitHub 🤓)

Aspire 13.2 CLI improvements video 🚀📽️ This is a recording I made of some Aspire CLI improvements coming in the next release. Check it out.

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 9: Improve resource graph layout with adaptive force-directed positioning. Resources with many connections now have more space around them, making complex graphs feel less cluttered. Before and after images below.

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 8: The Aspire standalone dashboard (run via a Docker container 🐳) can now be started without an OTLP endpoint. aspire.dev/dashboard/stan… The dashboard supports importing telemetry in the UI, so an OTLP endpoint isn't required.

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 7: A small quality-of-life improvement: text boxes with sensitive data have a new button to toggle masking 🔐

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 6: An Aspire user asked for env file export. The infrastructure for exporting resources as JSON was already there, so Mr. Copilot vibed us an env file export 👏🤖

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 5: Export data for specific resources and telemetry directly from the dashboard. Select "Export JSON" in context menus to get the data — copy it to your clipboard 📋 or download it to your machine 💾

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 4: The dashboard now supports collecting telemetry exported as OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) JSON 📡 Great if you don't want to a Protobuf library dependency 📦 Aspire supports all OTLP flavours: gRPC, HTTP + Protobuf, and HTTP + JSON 🚀

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 3: Introducing the new Manage Logs & Telemetry dialog. It's a one-stop shop for exporting, importing, and removing data from the dashboard. 📦 Data is exported as JSON in a zip file. Share it with AI, teammates, or import it later.

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 2: The Resources page now remembers collapsed state — perfect if you have lots of resources and want child resources permanently minimized 📁✨

Aspire 13.2 dashboard features, day 1: Set parameters directly in the dashboard. Click the key action and enter a new value. To remember it next time, optionally save the value to your user secrets 🔐

@davidfowl @Aaronontheweb SignalR adds metadata to the request to indicate it is a long running request: #signalr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/c… .NET MCP SDK should probably do the same thing. Although this is request specific data rather than connection specific.

@Aaronontheweb This is why SignalR has been doing for years 😬

MCP really skewing my "connection duration" histogram here lol

1999 install shiny new NVIDIA TNT2 windows 98 boots first try (miracle) launch Quake III Arena demo hardware acceleration ON fps go brrrr install Winamp it really whips the llama's ass queue up Prodigy.mp3 alt-tab between frags and vibes future has arrived

@irae_regnum Ha, no. Maybe next version.

@JamesNK But, will we finally be able to sort the Timestamp column?

The Aspire dashboard is getting a ton of new features for managing telemetry and using data. In the next version: Export your entire app state to a zip file 📦, attach it to an issue, hand it to AI for analysis 🤖, or give it to a teammate to import into their own dashboard 🧑‍💻

Me vibe coding: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Agent summarizing conversation: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

Watching copilot spinning in circles, trying and failing to fix CS0436 is very cathartic learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/csharp/… ❌ using alias? No improvement ❌ Extern alias? Million more warnings ❌ Add and/or remove compile includes? Still broken ✅ Screw it, no reuse, copy code

@BieleckiPawel ASP.NET MVC didn't use Newtonsoft.Json and ASP.NET Core 10 doesn't use Newtonsoft.Json anymore. I skipped over it.

@JamesNK Newtonsoft.Json -> System.Text.Json?

Upgrading a 10-year-old website with AI 🤖 🚀 .NET Framework → .NET 10 🌐 ASP.NET MVC → ASP.NET Core 🗄️ Entity Framework 6 → EF Core 10 🎨 Bootstrap 3 → Bootstrap 5 ⚡ Sync → Async 💎 KnockoutJS → KnockoutJS (perfection doesn't change)