Aaron Powell (@slace)

Job description in CoreAI, with the title of "Principal Technical Program Manager - CoreAI"

A new REALLY COOL role in our division at Microsoft - Principal Technical Program Manager!

🥹 Collab with me (benefit or drawback, depending on how you look at it)
✨ Work on cutting-edge AI dev tools
👻 Craft ways to synthesize feedback

🧙‍♀️ Role: jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

I'm no cow-ard when it comes to puns, I always find a way to milk them for all their worth.

I hope they had no beef with you wanting to get through

Did you tell them to mooooooove

A thumbnail with a dark background and the VS Code logo that reads "What's new in Visual Studio Code July Update 1.103, Use GPT-5 in chat, chat checkpoints to restore previous states, a revamped tool picker interface, support for more than 128 tools per agent request, automatic startup for MCP servers, enhanced terminal command approvals, Git worktree support for checking out multiple branches, fast code search for Azure DevOps repositories, a customizable language model selector, and a dedicated view for managing coding agent chat sessions".

v1.103 of VS Code is here! Check out what's new:

🚀 GPT-5 rolling out to VS Code today
🛠️ Enable more than 128 MCP tools with virtual tools
✅ Chat checkpoints
🌳 Git worktree support

…and much more: aka.ms/VSCodeRelease

Here are some of the highlights 🧵

Introduction to .NET Aspire FREE PREVIEW ISBN: 9789365893540eISBN: 9789365897944Authors: Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Tommaso StocchiRights: WorldwideEdition: 2025Pages: 218Dimension: 6*9 InchesBook Type: Paperback

🚀 It’s here! Our book on .NET Aspire is officially out!
Dive into what Aspire is and how it helps you build cloud-native apps with ease.

Big thanks to @maddymontaquila.net for the amazing foreword 💙
It’s been a ride — hope you enjoy it!
bpbonline.com/products/int...

#dotnet #aspire #cloudnative

that's when the scissors come out and you hack at the bag

I reckon I get that one in ten on the chicken feed

Hey #dotnet - we on the .NET SDK team are all about making the `dotnet` CLI more capable and powerful over time. But how do you usually _get_ the `dotnet` CLI and other tooling? Today that answer is a _bunch_ of different ways. We have a plan to centralize these ways into a new tool, and...

Yeah, if we were going Kia, we'd probably go that. The 9 would be more if we wanted to do some future proofing of logistics of kids + weekend sport + they'll probably be tall like me

good to know about xpeng, their SUV is around the size that appeals - we've got a Tuscan currently and it's around the size that fits our life style.

Although I did see a Kia EV9 in the wild the other day and was like "damn, that's nice but huuuuuuuuuuuuge" 🤣

Ohh, I didn't know they were a Geely subsidary.

It's more a general observation these "startup" EV's.

They look very nice, but I worry that in years to come, how many survive, so will we still get OTA or mechanical support.

And yes, BEV's require much less mechanical support, but still.

My biggest worry with these is that the manufacturer won't exist in 10 years time, and that's the kind of timespan I want out of a vehicle.

Check out how easy it is to add a virtual team member using GitHub Copilot chat modes!

I'm currently reviewing a PR generated by GitHub Copilot coding agent while I have another agent writing code in another repo that I occationally click "yes, continue" on.

Am I 10x yet?

in the scope of US federal spending, sure. But in the scope of NASA, probably not

Moon nuclear is not that crazy an idea if we want to have some long term occupation up there. Wind won't work, can't really do fossil fuel, and solar... well two weeks of night ain't great.

Vite: The Documentary premieres October 9th at @viteconf.org in Amsterdam ⚡
youtu.be/46fe5AFc0tY

Don’t ever let anyone convince you that transitioning off fossil fuels means going back to Little House on the Prairie lifestyle. There are so many innovations, solutions, healthy ways to meet peoples’ needs. One small example: check out the world’s first solar train in Australia. lnkd.in/gtwaRqix

Two Talks: What's inside the AI Toolbox and Chasing OWASP Vulnerabilities, Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 5:30 PM | Meetup Melb.NET is excited to host two great talks by [Rakesh Lakshminarayana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakeshl/) (Principal AI Consultant at Agile Insights) and [Nadee Kodituw

If you're in Melbourne and free tomorrow night, join me and all the other awesome Melb.NET peeps at the Microsoft offices for our monthly meetup!

With two fantastic talks on the lineup, plus food and drinks!

www.meetup.com/melb-net-mee...

You're my soda pop

peep | Prompts on demand AI prompting made easy with ready-to-use scripts for developers and creators

Need help prompting? I made a fun thing with @aaronw.dev
that works like "gi" for gitignore, but with prompts. Need a react component and don't know the prompt? Try "peep react-component" in your CLI:

tek.pub

Did someone just post something they didn't mean to, and I grabbed the link before the post was taken down? 😏

Running my 7th #City2Surf next week — and raising funds for Inner City Legal Centre 🏳️‍🌈💼

They’re the only legal service in NSW for LGBQTI+, trans & sex worker communities.

Chip in if you can:
👉 city2surf25.grassrootz.com/inner-city-l...

#Fundraiser #RunForJustice #ICLC

GitHub - github/awesome-copilot: Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. Community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. - github/awesome-copilot

Fixed a bug on github.com/github/aweso... so you can now one-click add Chat Modes to your VS Code environment (it worked for prompts and instructions before).

Wait, no, looks like I ran all 1000 tests in the repo 🤦

I've got like 10 failing tests in the Aspire 9.4 upgrade on the Community Toolkit, and I accidentally ran 270 tests.

This is taking longer than I meant it too!

goddamn drop bears

Spicy pillow!

My average resting HR is just below 40 and I have to reassure the nurses when I donate blood that I believe I'm technically still alive.

My colleagues at Microsoft are running free streams about MCP over next two days,
covering a ton of topics.
Check out the lineups:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/26140/
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/events/26141/