Steve Gordon

YouTube video by rendle Claude Code Part 5: Let's Take A Moment And Talk About All This

Yet more Claude talk and experimentation and such

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Seems like @rendle.dev and my ad-hoc "wtf is Claude Code" series is getting some traction, which is heartening.
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Side table in a bedroom covered in medical supplies including infusion kits, needles, a syringe and HyQvia medication.

A bedroom with side table containing medical supplies for infusion, a sharps bin and a hospital grade pump next to the bed.

Today was infusion day for me, which comes once every three weeks. I get to top myself up with fresh new antibodies. It requires turning my bedroom temporarily into a hospital! I've gotten used to the process after 6 months of doing it. A bit sore tonight and exhausted. #immunocompromised #cvid

Watched both recordings so far and it's been great. I'm at that point of, I need to learn this stuff and make more use of the tools now, so having guidance from two people whose opinions I respect and trust is very helpful! Looking forward to part 3.

I got a request passed along from a potential customer last week asking for a workaround to run our library on .NET Framework 2.0!!

Sage advice!

I'll likely aim to assess both over time. I'm leaning toward Claude first as that's the one I've had the most positive feedback on from colleagues. But great to have your opinion too as it's highly valued!

No, I've used it a little with the free plan only.

Herein lies the problem! So much to learn about and try out and next week there will be some new thing getting hype. I wanted to try Claude next as its the one I hear best feedback on. How do these compare in your experience?

I'm watching and reading a lot of content on using AI coding agents to start to build up my knowledge. At some stage, perhaps I'll distill it into blog posts of my own. With things moving so fast, im not sure of the value in that until things stabilise. WDYT?

I'm skill unsure of the sustainability with regards to companies eventually needing to charge a huge amount more to cover costs. Where we'll end up exactly is unclear. But understanding the fundamentals, tricks and "best practices" sooner rather than later feels sensible.

In some form, they will be here to stay and I think its important not to get left behind. We still need humans, but more and more tasks will be delegated to AI. Finding out how these tools fit into my workload and how to leverage them best is now important.

We're at the point where people whose opinion I respect, including colleagues and those in the #dotnet community, are providing positive feedback and examples, making it hard to ignore the progress. Things are moving fast, but I think now is the time to start learning these tools.

As someone who was cautious and skeptical of AI coding agents, I'm starting to accept that these tools are hugely improved compared to where they were even 6 months ago. I made good progress on some changes fully in @github.com Copilot CLI yesterday. Next week I plan to try Claude Code.

Three year old sitting in the captains seat on board an A320 EasyJet flight.

I'm not sure the pilot for our flight is fully qualified!

Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 2) - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve In this post, we build out the AES-GCM encryption layer that we will depend on in future posts to decrypt JSON properties using System.Text.Json.

Blogged: "Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 2)"

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Continuing our journey by adding a component that can encrypt and decrypt data using AES-GCM.

#dotnet

Submitted 2 security issues to NuGet and GitHub last year, finally heard back that they are low priority and not a big deal.

I did manage to publish this package to NuGet. A bunch of unicode in there, but it looks genuine, right? Nobody would discover this via search because of the unicode.

The Grand Mystery of the Missing 18 Bytes - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve In this post I will share the tale of the mystery surrounding different bytes counts between benchmark data and .NET memory profilers.

Just blogged, live from @ndcconferences.com #ndclondon, "The Grand Mystery of the Missing 18 Bytes". An exploration of the implementation details affecting different values from benchmark allocation data when compared to memory profiler data in #dotnet.

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You gotta love how CoPilot will confidently lie to you. Gave it compiling code to, asked it to find and fix a small bug. It found the bug (correctly) and fixed it, then builds and it fails. It locates a malformed byte literal and states "There's a syntax error in the file (not related to my change)"

Awesome. See you next week!

This week I've been learning about AssemblyLoadContext to solve a tricky dependency issue in the Elastic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (EDOT) for #dotnet. I finally have a POC working that avoids dependency conflicts for profiler-based use cases. It's not perfect but still it's good progress!

The week before NDC London is marked with fitting in rehersals of my talk early in the morning. I'm excited about my new session "Application Peformance Optimisation in Practice" which is 30-35 mins of pure demo. Refining my slides and key points to round off the remainder of the talk. #dotnet

Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 1) - Steve Gordon - Code with Steve In this post we start creating a TypeInfoResolver modifier in System.Text.Json to encrypt and decrypt JSON properties during serialisation.

Blogged: Encrypting Properties with System.Text.Json and a TypeInfoResolver Modifier (Part 1).

In this post we start creating a TypeInfoResolver modifier in System.Text.Json to encrypt and decrypt JSON properties during serialisation.

#dotnet #json

www.stevejgordon.co.uk/encrypting-p...

An old fashioned cocktail!

Found a just about passable satsuma which will have to do! Cheers!

Spot on! Im going to try with the dash of water this time and see what I prefer.

Yep and indeed I am.

A selection of cocktail ingredients. Woodford Reserve bourbon, Angostura Aromatic Bitters, sugar and utensils.

For Christmas i requested a few ingredients towards making my favourite cocktail. Besides ice and water, I'm missing a key ingredient here, which i thought we had. What is it and what am I making?

Then if you want help with anything it just provides the steps. That's something I guess but could it not automate some of those for me? Also, when I switch to slide master I can't even get the CoPilot window up. Will abondon this and do it the way I normally do!

Tried PowerPoint CoPilot this afternoon just to see if it could help with a template and initial slide creation from my notes, assuming it would be a bit like GitHub CoPilot. Nope! Not that useful at all, just links to free templates sites. It feels like it could deliver so much more!

Yep!