Simon Foster
@funkysi1701
North of England-based Software Developer | .NET developer | Azure & DevOps specialist | 18+ years building scalable solutions
#dunc26 Looking forward to a full day of developer conference talks tomorrow in Hull developersupnorth.co.uk/event-guide
Episode Atlas has a new look for navigating over 900 episodes of #StarTrek Take a look at www.episodeatlas.com/episodes now and you will see a sidebar with every TV series and movie listed so you can easily find the episode you want, and the whole is still searchable from the top bar
You are listening to TrekRanks and they all discuss episodes which you know you need to watch next. Episode Atlas now has a cool new feature to help track these "watch next" episodes. Login and give it a try.
This is interesting, I asked how far the real Voyager 2 spacecraft would have travelled by the time of Star Trek. It would only be a tiny fraction of a light year away from Earth
.NET 10 is here! Discover amazing new features now! https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2025/blazor-and-dotnet10/ #Blazor #.NET10 #WebAssembly #Wasm #HttpClient #breakingchange #DotNet #VisualStudio #release #streamingresponse #C-Sharp
Excited to join the Festive Tech Calendar! Join me for festive AI fun! 🎄 https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2025/festive-naughty-or-nice-checker/ #.NET #SemanticKernel #AI #Christmas #festive #naughtyornice #C-Sharp #machinelearning #tutorial
Does uptime and reliability still matter in this AI world? Is the only thing that matters now is using AI tokens and delivering features fast? Github has been having lots of issues recently, and its uptime is less than 90% now
Volunteering at NDC London 2026: Building skills, community, and confidence! 🚀 https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/ndc-london-2026/ #NDCLondon #Conference #DotNet #AI #Accessibility #WCAG #Playwright #Testing #Azure #OpenTelemetry #UX #Volunteering #2026
Exploring the differences between Azure Container Registry and AWS Elastic Container Registry in my latest blog post! Thoughts? 🌐 https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/acr-vs-ecr/ #Azure #AWS #Docker #Containers #DevOps #ACR #ECR #Cloud
Navigating the shifting sands of AI in software development. Adapt, learn, and thrive in this new era. https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/ai-wont-replace-developers/ #ai #software-development #career #engineering #productivity
Choosing the right AI tool is key! Here's my go-to list for coding. https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/2026/how-i-use-ai-on-side-projects/ #AI #ChatGPT #Cursor #GitHubCopilot #SideProjects #DeveloperWorkflow #Blazor #Hugo #Productivity
🚀 Excited to share 3 of my live Azure projects: Episode Atlas for TV tracking, AI-powered Semantic Search, and a Blog Platform with seamless deploys. Dive in and explore! 🌐 https://www.funkysi1701.com/posts/projects/
🖖 Star Trek fans! Explore every series, find episodes fast, and rediscover your favourites with Episode Atlas 🚀 https://www.episodeatlas.com Live long and prosper!
It’s Both What You Say and the Way You Say It #ThePragmaticProgrammer
Great episode, feel the need to share my wife's favourite quote from Armageddon Game
I have volunteered to help out with the Developers Up North conference which is happening next month. Looking forward to meeting lots of like minded developers. www.developersupnorth.co.uk #dunc26
Looking at adding some improvements to the episode search on www.episodeatlas.com after getting some user feedback
I've added a cool new feature to Episode Atlas, you can now select a random episode that you have not watched. So no more clicking through 10 randomly selected episodes you watched last week! Check it out at www.episodeatlas.com/random
This is cool I just implemented semantic search for my blog based on a talk I heard at NDC. Going to add a blog post about it soon...
I have update episodeatlas.com to allow log in via Google as well as my existing authentication methods github and Microsoft
Can't decide what #StarTrek episode to watch? www.episodeatlas.com/Random Episode Atlas now has a random episode generator, selected at random from all 964 episodes or choose your favourite series