Daniel Ward - daninacan

@DevLeaderCa My stack nowadays is: - xunit - nsubstitute - awesomeassertions - autofixture - testcontainers + respawn for db-related tests - playwright for e2e if needed - xunit.combinatorial if I need it for more paramtetized cases - stryker for mutation tests when I have the time

What's your approach to unit testing in .NET? Any preferred frameworks or tools?

I'm probably VERY late to this... Was looking into a multi-terminal option on Windows, and found Windows Terminal just has that out of the box already, along with managing the panes with keyboard. Mind blown. Kudos Windows Terminal team!

Just started using /research a week or so ago in Copilot CLI and it's been fantastic so far

@Derly_dev What's your strategy for having lots of entities with pathfinding collisions etc in the scene at once?

some more progress on the game been adding more little things and it's starting to feel like an actual game now lol #gamedev #indiegame

@Derly_dev wow I love sausage character

added movement game is basically done #gamedev #indiegame

@krzyzanowskim Just curious as someone interested and barely getting started with pi, why is that? Faster? Better outputs?

after working all the time with pi.dev as main agent, switch go codex agent is like back to the stone age. using the same model. I just wanted to say that.

@plainionist I'm interested - I've definitely been on teams before where we went to prod 10+ times/wk and we paired/mobbed on every ticket. In those cases, the PR became a massive bottleneck for us. If the goal is just to have more than 1 pair of eyes on it I feel like we fulfilled that

"Using pull requests for code changes by your own team members is like having your family members go through an airport security checkpoint to enter your home. It’s a costly solution to a different problem." Kief Morris, Why your team doesn’t need to use pull requests Agree? 🤔

@KenneyNL @youtooz Well gosh darn it I've been using that exact fella to prototype a platformer idea lately. Guess I have to get it now

Super excited to announce Kenney × @youtooz and reveal the Kenney plush! ✨ It'll be available May 20th and it's the perfect #gamedev companion (he'll listen to your code explanations)

I know we need code review, but does it have to be a separate phase?

@burkeholland @github It's also available in the Copilot SDK! I used it when vibe coding a Blazor app to help with brainstorming. It creates a mind map from a prompt and each node is actually a forked Copilot session so it keeps the context

The @GitHub Copilot CLI lets you /fork conversations into different sessions you can toggle between. I've been using this lately to go down different roads with the same plan before I commit to one of them.

🍕🍺 In-person Austin DNUG meetup this month! Drinks and food will be provided! 🎤What: Implementing an AI Software Factory on Top of Your DevOps Environment 👨‍🏫Who: @jeffreypalermo ⌚When: May 21 @ 5:30 CST 📍Where: Calavista (address on Meetup) Signup: meetup.com/austin-net-use…

I'm happy to start another year as a @PulumiCorp Puluminary! I always love and appreciate the swag! Also, bonus points for having some of the coolest shipping boxes I've seen.

@dexhorthy @mattpocockuk When people asked us if they are giving too much/not enough context etc I explained it with this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerspi…

@mattpocockuk Was just talking to someone last night on a corollary to this, the idea that “I can’t teach people parts of AI intuition, I can watch someone prompting and I can shout out ‘no don’t use that word because the model will take it as XYZ’ but I can’t generally transfer that skill”

AI is making me obsessed with language Taking abstract business processes and naming them is INSANELY powerful for aligning AI with how you work I don't scan X for inspiration for course material/socials I capture notes (either as hooks and bricks) from the X channel This brevity makes communicating with AI so much faster, and helps you think more clearly

I'll be speaking at @DoDAustin again this year! This is actually one of my favorite conferences, and I highly recommend going if you can! My talk will be How to Get Started With Automated Testing In the Age of AI. Signup: devopsdays.org/events/2026-au…

@housecor Manual code reviews like PRs or change approval gates (eg only allowed to go to prod specific days/times)

Poll: What's the typical software development bottleneck in 2026? (A bottleneck is where work tends to pile up due to insufficient throughput relative to other functions)

I jump around IDEs a bit just to get a feel for what's changing, and so far, Copilot in Visual Studio is the only AI tool I've found that can out-of-the-box see runtime values, stack traces, etc for debugging help. Been really nice Kudos @mkristensen and @VisualStudio team

Thank you to everyone who attended my @GitHubCopilot workshop last weekend! I enjoyed giving it and meeting everyone there. Also huge thank you to @ZelifcamSftwre, Geeks&Drinks, and Alamo Tech Collective for hosting! Slides, repo: daninacan.com/geeks-and-drin…

C# devs can do agentic AI, too! At the next SADNUG meetup, @garoyeri demos @aspiredotdev + @ollama! #dotnet 🎤What: C# Developers can have fun with Agentic AI too! 👨‍🏫Who: Garabed Yeriazarian ⌚When: April 30 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: meetup.com/sadnug/events/…

Tomorrow's the day! I'll be giving a free 3-hour long workshop on effective @GitHubCopilot usage tomorrow from 10AM-1PM at @ZelifcamSftwre. We'll use both Copilot in the CLI and VS Code. Event + signup here: geeksanddrinks.tech/ai-april

@DanWahlin Thank you for this! This is great timing since I am giving a Copilot workshop over the weekend and I can make sure I don't miss any good stuff.

If you missed today's session kicking off our GitHub Copilot CLI Hands-On series you can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=UT_3vu… Tomorrow's session will cover chapter 3 & 4 of the GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners course. Sign up for the upcoming sessions here. Hope to see you tomorrow! 👉 msft.it/6017QsvXb