Arturo Nereu will present at the next .NET meeutp on creating his own game engine from an AI angle! #dotnet #gamedev 🎙️ What: Generate the code once, so nobody has to write it again 🧑Who: Arturo Nereu 🕛 When: Sep 24 @ Noon CST 🌐 Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Next .NET meetup in 1 week! I'll talk about using analyzers & architecture tests to enforce code quality! 🎤What: Don't Make Me Repeat Myself: Analyzers & More For Quality By Default 👨‍🏫Who: Daniel Ward ⌚When: August 27 @ Noon CDT 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to use Azure models in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code I've been successfully playing around with using Azure Foundry models with @github.com Copilot BYOK mode lately (including a CLI status line script showing Azure spend), so thought I'd share! daninacan.com/how-to-use-a...

How to use Azure models in GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code

The end result of what we’ll have at the end of this post in Copilot CLI and VS Code. I recently found myself running out of my Copilot Max credits before the month end. I remembered I have some…

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I'll be giving a 30-45-minute presentation this Wednesday on how I use GitHub Copilot after coaching teams on it for a little over a year. It'll be both some specific technical features and general patterns of how I like to use it. Come check it out! leantechniques.com/events/githu...

I'm both happy and thankful to go another year as a Microsoft MVP! I love being in .NET land, anyway, so contributing to the program with blog posts, talks, and local events is something I enjoy doing and plan to keep doing! #mvpbuzz

Next San Antonio/Austin DNUG is in 10 days! Learn to build your infrastructure in C# with Pulumi! #dotnet #azure 🎤What: Serverless Dad Jokes: What If Everything Was Just C#? 👨‍🏫Who: Adam Gordon Bell ⌚When: July 30 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Thank you Packt for sending the San Antonio/Austin .NET UG some complimentary books for us to giveaway! We also received some discount codes. These kinds of things seem small, but they really do help out local groups, so I really appreciate getting sponsorships like this.

Want AI without paying per token? Alec Harrison covers AI Foundry Local at the DNUG this Thursday! #dotnet 🎤What: AI on Your Machine: .NET, AI Foundry Local, and Zero Cloud Guilt 👨‍🏫Who: Alec Harrison ⌚When: June 25 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

I'm off to Denmark to speak at NDC Copenhagen about how and why to use the @github.com Copilot SDK! As a bonus, you'll also get some snazzy C# demos thrown in. #dotnet I'm excited to see another new place and grateful for the opportunity!

Blogged: 10 cool things you can do with GitHub Copilot CLI Been using the @github.com Copilot CLI more lately and enjoying it quite a bit. I even included the brand spankin new /chronicle cost-tips and /rubber-duck commands just because I like yall that much daninacan.com/10-cool-thin...

10 cool things you can do with GitHub Copilot CLI

The Copilot CLI has a lot of features! Its documentation is very helpful, but documentation in general doesn’t tell you the patterns of how a tool is actually used that you gain from experience using…

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In-person meetup for the Austin .NET User Group with Jeffrey Palermo this Thursday! Free food and drinks! #dotnet

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🍕🍺 In-person Austin DNUG meetup this month! Drinks and food will be provided! 🎤What: Implementing an AI Software Factory on Top of Your DevOps Environment 👨‍🏫Who: Jeffrey Palermo ⌚When: May 21 @ 5:30 CST 📍Where: Calavista (address on Meetup) Signup: www.meetup.com/austin-net-u...

🍕🍺 In-person Austin DNUG meetup this month! Drinks and food will be provided! 🎤What: Implementing an AI Software Factory on Top of Your DevOps Environment 👨‍🏫Who: Jeffrey Palermo ⌚When: May 21 @ 5:30 CST 📍Where: Calavista (address on Meetup) Signup: www.meetup.com/austin-net-u...

I'm happy to start another year as a @pulumi.com Puluminary! I always love and appreciate the swag! Also, bonus points for having some of the coolest shipping boxes I've seen.

I'll be speaking at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social again this year! This is actually one of my favorite conferences, and I highly recommend going if you can! My talk will be How to Get Started With Automated Testing In the Age of AI. Signup: devopsdays.org/events/2026-...

Thank you to everyone who attended my @github.com Copilot workshop last weekend! I enjoyed giving it and meeting everyone there. Also huge thank you to @zelifcam.bsky.social, Geeks&Drinks, and Alamo Tech Collective for hosting! Slides, repo: daninacan.com/geeks-and-dr...

C# devs can do Agentic AI, too! At the next SADNUG meetup, @garoyeri.bsky.social demos @aspire.dev + @ollamabot.bsky.social! #dotnet 🎤What: C# Developers can have fun with Agentic AI too! 👨‍🏫Who: Garabed Yeriazarian ⌚When: April 30 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Tomorrow's the day! I'll be giving a free 3-hour long workshop on effective @github.com Copilot usage tomorrow from 10AM-1PM at @zelifcam.bsky.social. We'll use both Copilot in the CLI and VS Code. Event + signup here: geeksanddrinks.tech/ai-april

I joined the AI DevOps podcast for an episode! azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/daniel-ward-... Jeffrey Palermo and I talked about the current AI landscape, avoiding skill atrophy with AI, and the ways I'm doing enterprise AI coaching for teams to get value out of AI without breaking stuff.

Blogged: How to use the GitHub Copilot SDK in C# I've been using the @github.com Copilot SDK for the past month or two on a side project and been having a blast with it, so figured it was worth its own post! #dotnet daninacan.com/how-to-use-t...

How to use the GitHub Copilot SDK in C#

The GitHub Copilot SDK came out at the beginning of this year, and it offers a lot of possibility in the way of integrating AI into your own custom apps. I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with it…

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I'll be giving a free 3-hour workshop on effective GitHub Copilot usage on April 18! Signup: geeksanddrinks.tech/ai-april After a year of enterprise AI coaching on @github.com Copilot, I'll share what does and doesn't work when supporting real products with it at the enterprise level.

I learned this year at #MVPSummit that there's 39 Daniels that are MVPs! #mvpbuzz In my opinion, that is far too many. I propose we narrow this number down classic gladiator combat style and let the strongest survive

Finally made it to #MVPSummit and even got a little something to represent the San Antonio .NET User Group back home! #mvpbuzz #sadnugs

Moving right into another cross-platform talk this month! Tony Champion covers UNO Platform at next week's .NET@Noon! #dotnet 🎤What: Getting Started with Cross-Platform Development Using UNO 👨‍🏫Who: Tony Champion ⌚When: March 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: Using ReSharper in Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, Antigravity, & More The fact that ReSharper is on Open VSX was a pleasant surprise to learn about! Plus, it was a nice change of pace from the AI content lately. @jetbrains.com @resharper.jetbrains.com #dotnet daninacan.com/using-reshar...

Using ReSharper in Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, Antigravity, & More

JetBrains recently released ReSharper on the Open VSX registry, which is pretty big news, in my opinion. If you’re not familiar with Open VSX, it boils down to this: it’s essentially the same service…

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Reminder that I'll be live in a few 4 hours at 2 PM Central! I'll be speaking about how to use the @github.com Copilot SDK for Memphis AgentCamp. Come check it out! #dotnet Signup: www.meetup.com/memphis-tech...

Memphis AgentCamp, Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 9:00 AM | Meetup

The Memphis Global AI Community Bootcamp returns for 2026 as the Memphis AgentCamp. On Monday, March 16 join us at 9:00 AM Central US time for a day of AI for everyone to b

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Want to build cross-platform apps with one codebase? Next week's .NET@Noon will go over .NET MAUI! #dotnet 🎤What: MAUI: The Tropical Paradise of Multi-Platform Development 👨‍🏫Who: Jeff Shafferman ⌚When: February 26 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup here: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

First .NET@Noon of the year is next week! Dustin Thostenson will cover how to handle tech debt, both technically and politically. #dotnet 🎤What: Techniques to Tackle Tech-debt Today 👨‍🏫Who: Dustin Thostenson ⌚When: January 29 @ Noon CST 🌐Where: Zoom Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...

Blogged: How to use Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot Very happy to see that skills for GitHub Copilot are in the stable version of @vscode.dev! I think it's a topic that takes a moment to grasp, and unit testing is a perfect example for showcasing them. #dotnet daninacan.com/how-to-use-a...

How to use Agent Skills in GitHub Copilot

If agents are the whole Swiss Army Knife, Agent Skills are like each individual tool. Photo by Maciej Karoń on Unsplash As of January 2026, Agent Skills are now available in the stable version of…

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Thank you to everyone who came out for the San Antonio #dotNETConf! It was the first event of the year for the SA .NET User Group and the turnout + whole event was great! Also big thanks to Lean Techniques for sponsoring, Geekdom for hosting, and DevSA for collab!

This Saturday will be San Antonio's local .NET Conf! We'll go over the highlights of all the new .NET 10 updates condensed into an hour. #dotNETConf 📍In-person at Geekdom, Jan 10 @ 1 PM 🌮Food/drinks provided 🎉Come learn with your fellow devs! Signup: www.meetup.com/sadnug/event...