Dan Clarke

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The next #UnhandledException podcast episode has dropped! @danclarke.com was joined by @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social to chat about the .NET Foundation and their recent experience being elected onto the board!
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Episode 84: The .NET Foundation - with Irina Dominte and Jonathan Tower In this episode, I was joined by both Irina Dominte and Jonathan Tower to chat about the .NET Foundation. They both recently ran for the .NET Foundation’s board of directors, and were elected! 👏 We chatted about their experiences running for the board, what the election process was like, and their initial experiences as board members. Irina Dominte Irina is a Software Architect at Particular Software, Microsoft MVP, and Microsoft Certified Trainer. She’s an international conference speaker, founder of dotnetdays.ro and multiple .NET user groups, and a newly elected .NET Foundation board member.

Great episode of Unhandled Exception with @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social talking about @dotnetfoundation.org! @danclarke.com asked a lot of really good questions.

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Took me three days to get through this #DotNet newsletter because every link was a banger 👍🏽

Something that came up in this conversation was that the Meetup subscription for the user-group I run (@dotnetoxford.com) is paid for by the @dotnetfoundation.org (with other #dotnet user groups). Something I take for granted. I just want to say a huge thank you to them for their support! 🙏

I don't think there'll be a shortage of jobs for people who heavily embrace AI and leverage it to get a lot more done (with less effort). Companies will always want more stuff done, and that stuff will need people (system thinkers) to orchestrate that work.

An individual not using it isn't going to stop everyone else from using it, though. That's just burying your head in the sand. And not using it probably IS going to prevent that individual from paying their mortgage, as they'll get totally left behind by everyone who is using it.

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The next #UnhandledException podcast episode has now dropped! I was joined by @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social to chat about the @dotnetfoundation.org and their recent experience being elected onto the board!
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Enjoyed a lunch-time podcast recording with @woodruff.dev, chatting about simplicity-first and keeping things simple in software development. The episode will go live in a couple of weeks. #UnhandledException

Warp has been on my list of things to play with for quite a while now! I think your post has just bumped it up the list! 😂

The developer's way of working has changed dramatically. If you're still manually coding as you did 2 years ago, then IMHO, you're wasting an insane amount of time.

It's also cleaning up my older codebases, making them use more consistent patterns, upgrading old dependencies, and much more. AI isn't making my code less maintainable - it's making it more maintainable, more consistent, and with better test coverage. It's cleaning up my slop, not creating AI slop.

I really don't understand devs now doubting the productivity gains of AI coding agents. Now is a totally different story from just a year ago. AI's doing and building stuff for me that I could never have begun to justify the time if I did it myself. And it's doing it better than I would have done.

Personally, I've found that AI is doing the complete opposite. I've used Claude Code to massively clean up codebases that I'd never have had the time to previously. We hear the term "AI slop" a lot - but I'm finding that AI's helping me clean up past-me's "human slop"! :)

Ack, just opened Claude Desktop and started typing just as a popup opened about something (and my typing dismissed it) 😬 I'm guessing it was just about Opus 4.6. If anyone gets this popup, could you screenshot it for me? Thanks :)

A massive thanks to @irina.codes and @jtowermi.bsky.social for joining me on the podcast just now! Really enjoyed geeking out about the @dotnetfoundation.org and their recent experience joining the Foundation's board! #dotnet #UnhandledException

Is it just me, or does Claude Code take longer to check for updates (even if there are no changes) than it takes for it to build a feature! 🤔😂 (okay, exaggeration - but only just!)

No, I haven't even gotten close to the Max plan limit. Looking at my usage, it looks like you get a lot for max plan, so I'm not that worried about hitting it at the moment. I haven't been on it for that long though - so maybe that'll change as I find more and more use cases 🤷

I recently upgraded to the Max plan. Expensive if you think of it as just a subscription. But very cheap if you think of it as a genius member of staff that can code solutions in minutes; automate a ton of things; acts as an assistant and adviser to anything you want; and much more :)

GitHub - dracan/tomato: Pomodoro timer for Windows Pomodoro timer for Windows. Contribute to dracan/tomato development by creating an account on GitHub.

I've been meaning to knock up a desktop Pomodoro timer for a while, but just haven't had the time. Thanks to Claude Code, I "vibe-coded" it in no time! 🔥🍅
github.com/dracan/tomato
More features coming soon!
(Sorry, I'm afraid it's Windows only)

I am aware that the "dotnet" section is getting smaller, whilst the "AI" section is getting bigger! 😂 Claude Code is seriously amazing though - so there'll definitely be lots of that coming. Maybe I'll do a YT video on it 🤔

Everyone is guessing when we'll achieve AGI. Have they played with Claude Code with Opus?! This thing is INSANE!!! 🔥
And before I get jumped on - I'm joking about AGI... but seriously though - CC with Opus is mind-blowingly good!🤯

This newsletter was Excellent 👍🏽I keep up to date with things, but, there were still about 5 things that I just learned from your newsletter.

Thank you so much for that amazing feedback! 😊🙏
It does take time to do, so really means a lot to get messages like this 😊

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I wish there was a way to have Claude Code still show the status emoji prefix in the Windows Terminal tab text, after you've explicitly renamed the tab. Does anyone know of a way to do this?

"And sometimes the answer is just to pick something, get it done and move on lol."

Definitely agree with this! I quite often find myself making a list of stuff to do, etc... then I stop and tell myself to just pick the first thing and DO IT, rather than wasting time over-planning! 😂

I always struggle with this, as I always have more than one in a day.
One thing that works for me is something I heard on a podcast called "Just One Thing" (JOT). I write down just one thing (and that's the main focus). I can't write down the next thing until that one thing is done and crossed out.