End of an era. It's been an absolute blast being part of the #MVPBuzz program, and I'll miss hanging out with friends at Summit in Seattle. Congrats to all of my MVP friends who were renewed.

Raman's frame: work is changing, not ending. Chase your talent, not your dreams. The full post, and the case study behind it: rjj-software.co.uk/blog/from-au...

Apparently, I'm a nice person (which is what the grammaticaly incorrect "woke" means).

I did a thing today. Feels good to be helping out the next generation of computer scientists get hands on experience with technologies.

Full post: how Denial of Wallet works, the three governance questions to answer before launch, and why this is the AI moonshot mistake on a different surface. rjj-software.co.uk/blog/when-yo...

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟭/𝟯 New episode of The Modern .NET Show. Joydip Kanjilal returns to talk Aspire: Microsoft's stack for building and monitoring distributed .NET apps.

Tons of fun!

Spent a little time updating the stats on the press kit page for The Modern .NET Show today. (the data collection is entirely manual as none of the services I use expose any kind of API or programattic interface)

Oh heck yes! Look what has arrived!

As someone who has sent both Graham and Kathleen (back in 2006, when they organised an informal meetup in London, and I clubbed Graham while sitting next to him), I can say that they are genuinely nice people.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟰/𝟰 - Hong Kong Morning at the British Consulate. Lunch at the #ChinaClub with #HSBC. A tour of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park. An evening cruise on the harbour. Five days, three cities, a week that will take some time to process. Full write-up: rjj-software.co.uk/news/rjj-sof...

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟯/𝟰: Shenzhen I missed the port visit because a client needed an emergency fix. I resolved it from my hotel room. #RemoteFirst is not a perk; it is infrastructure. We then toured #BYD HQ: 110,000 engineers, batteries that charge from 10 to 96 per cent in under ten minutes.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟮/𝟰: Guangzhou The AI adoption picture here is unlike anything I have seen in the UK. Companies train their own models, one per department, on their own hardware. Qwen, DeepSeek, and Kimi as foundations, fine-tuned in-house from there.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟭/𝟰: Last week: five days across #Guangzhou, #Shenzhen, and #HongKong on a trade mission with the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce. The largest UK trade delegation to China in several years. Here is what each city taught me.

Oh snap! The show crossed the 1.25 mil total downloads! dotnetcore.show/press-kit/

Just got an email from GitHub. Apparently a release failed. I get the feeling that something serious messed up when the release started... 30 days ago. According to the log, the release action ran for 30 days before failing. That can't be right. And should I expect a massive bill at somepoint?

Meanwhile in Hong Kong

Look at what I get to do! I was just at the British Consulate in Hong Kong as part of a trade mission.

I love how literal some Chinese to English translations are. Left to right, this reads: - blade - fork (as in "fork in the road") - ladle Those are just one of many ways to read these characters, but the closest to their stated English meanings.

Look at what I get to do! Today I was at an event celebrating and announcing the opening of a collaboration between Sinoport and Teeside Airport, in Guangzhou, China.

Starting a new hobby soon. Can you tell what it is? I won't be taking it super seriously though. I'll be using it as a way to get out and about more.

My 3d printed MVP dude thinks that the shelf is getting a little crowded. Also, my photography "skills" are the worst.

I genuinely don't create the podcast to make money, and it's kind of a good thing really 😅 In all seriousness, I fully appreciate anyone who wants to shared their hard earned money to support the show, but I don't expect it. I'm genuinely thankful for everyone.

I didn't take that many photos at #MVPSummit this year, but I did take a bunch of photos of nature.

The Mariners game (both my first Mariners game and first experience) last night was great. Here was my view:

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟱 The feedback loop: Providing feedback directly to product teams, based on real implementations with real clients, creates immediate value. Understanding product roadmaps helps MVPs guide clients more effectively. Taking away insights that will inform client consultations for the next year.

𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝟱 Looking forward to sharing insights from working with clients across various industries and contributing feedback based on real-world implementation experiences. If you're at Summit and want to connect, reach out. #MVPSummit #MVPBuzz #MicrosoftMVP

Totally feel you on this. Most of the downloads for one of my packages are for a version which is _checks notes_ 6 major versions out, was built in 2019, is marked as deprecated, and can only be used by out of support versions of .NET.

I paid, like, 500 and something GBP for a device so that I can run the PC versions of the original #ResidentEvil trilogy on the go, and I'm loving it. And today I found that I could replace the tile images in SteamOS (yes, I'm that far behind the times).

Would definitely recommend the Killswitch. Its a neat piece of kit. Here's my Legion Go S all dressed up and ready to go. I think it goes well with my Hiby R1 with orange trim, too. (Please ignore the slightly wonky job I've done when applying the skin) Very satisfied customer, @dbrand.bsky.social