Kevin Griffin
@consultwithgriff
❤️ Family. Microsoft MVP. He/Him. I love #dotnet & #azure. President of RevolutionVA — Hampton Roads .NET + Azure user groups, RevConf. #shedquarters in Chesapeake, VA. Random fact: roller coaster nut. consultwithgriff.com
I'm speaking at The Cloud & AI Summit 2026! My $8,000 Serverless Mistake is the real story of moving services to Azure Functions, loving the wins, then learning what serverless couldn't do—expensively. Thursday, Oct 1 at 1:15 PM CT. www.cloudandaisummit.com/content/ses...
I'm speaking at #TechBash 2026! In Building MCP Servers in .NET, I'll go from dotnet new to a working MCP server and cover tools, resources, prompts, transports, and Azure deployment. Oct 15 at 10:20 AM. Abstracts: techbash.com/sessions
Rewatching Super Troopers and Farva bought 10 gallons of gas for under $20 back in 2001. 😭😭😭
Running into pesky classifier issues with #claude? My secret password to get past most of them -- not all, but most.
Got my disk! Also finally got my 15 year disk! Due to a bug on the MVP site, I had never been able to request it. #mvpbuzz support was awesome!
In today's episode of "dumb things I've made with AI", I created a personal start page for the browser. Planning on adding some "Kevin"-specific items to this.
I feel like at this point, #ClaudeCode needs to start using decimals, so I have a better idea of how much time I have left.
TFW Claude takes a high horse and refuses to perform the perfectly reasonable action you asked it to do.
Today's episode of "Dumb Thing I Did With AI": I created a "YMCA" widget for Home Assistant to track my gym's occupancy throughout the day and determine the best time to go based on the data.
BSides Hampton Roads is looking for speakers — October 9-10, 2026, at ODU Webb University Center. This is their inaugural event, making it a perfect opportunity if you've been thinking about sharing something in the cybersecurity space.
Conferences and coasters! Great day at #stirtrek yesterday and spending the day at Kings Island today!
TFW one of your "technical articles" gets posted to HN and/or Reddit, and everyone has an opinion.
Oh lawd, it happened. World done fried up while we were in the air.
Very early, but starting my trek to #mvpsummit! Looking forward seeing everyone! #mvpbuzz
I joined Jeffrey Palermo on the Azure DevOps Podcast to discuss engineering for system uptime—lessons from 20+ years of building systems that can't go down. consultwithgriff.com/engineering...
I learned something new — SQL Server’s COUNT(*) OVER() lets you get paginated data AND the total row count in one query instead of two. No more duplicate WHERE clauses. No more extra round-trips. Wrote it up with C# examples: consultwithgriff.com/sql-paginat...
What happens when Claude reviews the concerns of Codex and Copilot?