A full room at tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social watching @rachelbeezedev.bsky.social deliver her presentation ‘AI Is Here: PRs Are Dead, Long Live PRs’ #DotNet #Manchester #AI
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.Net Mobile Dev from NW England Play D&D to justify buying more 3D printers
Tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social is underway in Manchester tonight with @martindotnet.bsky.social teaching us all about OpenTelemetry for .NET Developers #DotNet #OpenTelemetry
📢 Engineering Your .NET Telemetry with OpenTelemetry Weaver 🗓️ Tuesday, May 12 · 6:00 PM www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...
Engineering Your .NET Telemetry with OpenTelemetry Weaver, Tue, May 12, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Most telemetry is held together with string literals and good intentions. This talk shows how OpenTelemetry Weaver lets you treat your .NET application's telemetry like a p
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Thank you to all who came to @dotnetnorth.bsky.social last night to see @lottepitcher.bsky.social deliver her excellent talk 'Open Source Software in the Age of AI'. #Manchester #DotNet #MVPBuzz
Dave Manton sharing the fascinating story of how and why Victorian Plumbing built their own web analytics system, at tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social event #DotNet #Analytics #eCommerce
This month at Dot Net North — Dave Manton is talking Building Your Own Web Analytics. Ever tried processing user interactions at scale? This one digs into the technical hurdles of high-volume data and what it takes to build analytics in-house 📊
Coming up at Dot Net North, Joshua Crowe on building an extensible CLI toolkit in C#. Small, high-leverage internal tools with workflow logic, a state machine, type-safe command parsing and routing. If you're tired of messy scripts, this one's worth a look. 🛠️
🎨 Meditations on Code As Art This month, explore the artistic side of programming! Discover how developers imprint themselves on their work through history, from elegant patterns to deliberate artistic expression. 🗣️ @davidwhitney.co.uk 📍 Betfred, Manchester 🕕 Tue 14th Oct 18:00
Great talk by @simonpainter.bsky.social last night at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social. Going to challenge myself to try and integrate more Functional approaches into my code.
I may have gout in both feet and an ankle, but I won’t let that stop me from enjoying @themaccabees.bsky.social ever 🫶
Thoroughly enjoyed the new Mission Impossible. Bit of route 1 exposition at the beginning but apart from that, a proper good action movie
Incredibly proud that @dotnetnorth.bsky.social has just reached 4000 members. We originally started as a Windows Phone group with about 20 members. Thanks to all our members, speakers, hosts and my fellow organisers.
🎮Midi Birds: Playing games with .NET MAUI with @tonyedwardspz.bsky.social! Can MIDI controllers, birdsong & a clown wig make the perfect game show? Find out! 📅 Tue May 20th, 18:00-21:00 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, Manchester 🔊 No prior knowledge needed!
Double header at Dot Net North this month! @lucecarter.bsky.social on Semantic Kernel + MongoDB AI integration, and @stevefutcher.bsky.social making software installs smoother with Chocolatey. Tickets are free, and there's pizza + drinks! 📅 Tue 15th April, 18:00 📌 Spektrix, 196 Deansgate
Spoiler Alert: Tonight's @dotnetnorth.bsky.social Raffle Prizes include Socks! 🧦 Raffle Prizes: @jetbrains.com licences, Microsoft Azure socks, @platform.uno t-shirts + free for all: stickers from GitHub and Microsoft, Dot Net North beer mats
Had a great time at #MAUIDay Thanks to the sponsors, organisers and speaks for a top day!
Can definitely tell I’ve not been down south in a while - just said “evening” to the London bus driver 😅
Watch the full interview with Anders Hejlsberg and @danr.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGz...
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Our next event is "A Victorian take on Rich Domain Plumbing" - Victorian Plumbing's approach to DDD in code: fewer bugs, simpler solutions! 🗣️ Dave Manton, Head of Architecture at Victorian Plumbing 📍 Peninsula Building, Manchester 🕕 Tue 18th March, 18:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!
Had a great day at #dddNorth thanks to all the organisers, speakers and helpers for a fantastic event (as always)
Kicking off #MAUIDay UK in style is @davidortinau.com with .NET MAUI Now and Next. In this session he'll share the product highlights and candidly discuss the #dotnetMAUI team's vision for the future of mobile & desktop cross-platform development. 🗓️ March 14th 2025 📍 Central London 🎟️ mauiday.net
Thank you @dotnetnorth.bsky.social for hosting me and letting me geek out on how copilots and other LLM based apps work, and show off my Star Wars copilot powered by @getpieces.bsky.social.
🚀 Join us as @jimbobbennett.dev shows how to build your own Jedi-powered dev co-pilot! We'll use PiecesOS to create a context-aware AI assistant (Death Star plans optional) #dotnet #manchester 📍 Betfred, 72-76 Cross St, M2 4JG 🕕 Tue 28th Jan, 18:00-21:00 🍕 Free + pizza included!
First D&D sesh of the year, and I think something weird may have happened over the Christmas break. The team created 2 attack plans and both came off! Normally it’s just a table of chaos. I don’t like it!!
If you haven't used aspire yet, now's a great time to play with it learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... #dotnet #aspire
Here’s the repo that compliments tonight’s @dotnetnorth.bsky.social talk on ”What’s new in Aspire” github.com/adenearnshaw...
GitHub - adenearnshaw/dnn-aspire: Distributed application to highlight the use of .NET Aspire
Distributed application to highlight the use of .NET Aspire - adenearnshaw/dnn-aspire
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Doing a talk this week and still not finished the deck. I had 2 weeks off over Xmas to do it, yet here we are leaving it to the last minute yet again. You’d think at 37 I may have learnt by now 😅
UK folks - I'll be at @dotnetnorth.bsky.social in Manchester on the 28th January talking about building a Star Wars copilot with C# and @getpieces.bsky.social! Come join me. www.meetup.com/dotnetnorth/...
The force is strong in LLMs – building a Star Wars inspired copilot using Pieces, Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
In the Star Wars universe, many pilots have an astromech copilot. Luke had R2-D2 in the back of his X-Wing for example. As developers, we too have copilots. Although these
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