Welcome to this week's reading notes! We're exploring topics that might seem refreshingly old-school at first, developer experience improvements, cross-platform packaging, logging strategies, and even podcast succession planning. You know, the kind of practical stuff that actually keeps our projects running. Though I should mention there's a conversation about local AI models tucked in there too, because apparently it's still 2025. Sometimes the best way forward is making sure our foundations are solid.
Programming
How to Improve Developer Experience in Microservices Applications with .NET Aspire (Opaluwa Emidowojo) - Of course, there's a name for what the net aspire resolved. I never thought about it that way, but it makes total sense. By the way, Aspire is fantastic.
Automating Away Cross-Platform Packaging Complexity for .NET Developers ( Uno Platform Team) - UNO platform can be packaged, for free, for all platforms. That's very convenient and easy to use it looks like.
Define a default startup project in your slnx file - A simple fix for a painful problem when using slnx solution is now fixed.
Databases
- Add request logging to a database in an ASP.NET Core Web API (David Grace) - This is a nice tutorial showing step-by-step how to add and configure it
Podcasts
482: 1 Day Apps (Merge Conflict) - My first thought was 1 Day? yeah right! lol Cool episode sharing their journey with those building those types of apps.
Local AI Models with Joe Finney (.NET Rocks!) - Nice episode chatting about local AI. Why would you do that, what are your options yadi yada.
Rob Lowe Names Names: The Power of ‘Screw It’ (A Bit of Optimism) - Fun episode. Feels like a variation on how to not give it a sh!t theme, but it's always good to get reminded.
Podcast Succession Planning: What Happens To Your Show When You're Dead? (Feed Your Brand) - This is a great episode! Yes things move fast from time to time, right ;)
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~frank