Gordon Beeming

Upgrading My Wife's Portfolio to TinaCMS with the GitHub Copilot CLI | xylem | Gordon Beeming A task estimated to take 5 hours was to convert my wife's portfolio to use TinaCMS. I decided to see if the new GitHub Copilot CLI could do it for me. The result was surprising.

I pitted the new GitHub Copilot CLI 🤖 against a full website migration to TinaCMS 🦙.

One prompt handled the entire task, installs, refactoring, and even generating docs 🤯

See how it went down:
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#AI #GitHubCopilot #DevTools

My AI-Powered Workflow: Building a Full-Stack App with ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot | xylem | Gordon Beeming What if you could build a complete application without writing most of the code? I put that to the test by building a URL shortener where I acted as the architect, ChatGPT as the project manager, and ...

I built a full-stack URL shortener by letting AI do the heavy lifting. 🤯

ChatGPT created the plan
GitHub Copilot wrote the code
My role? Architect & reviewer

I wrote a blog post about the entire workflow.

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#AI #GitHub #Copilot #DevOps

The Conprism: The Illusion of Precision in Estimates and Star Ratings | xylem | Gordon Beeming It started with a typo and a thought about 10-point rating scales. I realized our quest for precision in work estimates and user ratings often creates a "conprism", a false sense of accuracy. Here's w...

What's the real difference between a 7/10 and an 8/10 rating? It's an illusion of precision, and the same thing happens with software estimates. My thoughts on the 'conprism'.

#AgileDev #UX #Estimation

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The Double-Edged Sword of Conveniently Named Exceptions | xylem | Gordon Beeming Choosing a C# exception because its name sounds right is a common anti-pattern. Learn why this leads to confusing logs, unnecessary costs, and better ways to handle errors.

Ever chased a NotSupportedException down a rabbit hole, only to find it was a business rule? 😅

This anti-pattern of "conveniently named exceptions" can waste hours and hide real production bugs in your logs. 👇

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#CSharp #DotNet #CleanCode #SoftwareDevelopment

Language learning isn't all about sharing progress, it's also about sharing the things we use to help achieve our goal. I hope to foster a community of study session and resource sharing to help each other on each of our own journeys.

On the plus side, all that extra time is experience that will make things easier later 💪

Thanks for the feedback Greg 💪

I Let Copilot Refactor My App, So You Don't Have To (The Wrong Way) | xylem | Gordon Beeming I had a seemingly simple refactoring task on a sample project and I thought, "Let's get GitHub Copilot to do the heavy lifting!". What followed was a spiral into chaos that taught me a crucial lesson ...

I let Copilot refactor my app the wrong way so you don't have to. It completely messed up my EF Core migrations. 😵‍💫

My new post details the botched attempt and the right way to do it with a hybrid IDE + AI approach.

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#dev #ai #csharp #refactoring

Supercharge your GitHub Copilot workflow! 🚀

It's not just for your IDE. Learn how to let Copilot handle entire PRs on github.com with better PBIs, batched feedback, and even screenshots in your reviews

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#GitHubCopilot #AI #Dev #Productivity

Redesigning My Blog with an AI-Powered Workflow | xylem | Gordon Beeming My blog needed a facelift. Instead of weeks of manual CSS changes, I used Gemini for planning and GitHub Copilot for execution to completely redesign my site. Here's how the AI-assisted process worked...

I recently went through a full redesign, but not in the traditional way.

My workflow:
🧠 Gemini as the Tech Lead
💻 GitHub Copilot as the dev to do the heavy lifting.

Here's how it all went down: gordonbeeming.com/blog/2025-08...

#WebDev #AI #Productivity #Gemini #DevRel

Architecting C# Domain Models for Human and AI Collaboration I went down a rabbit hole of extreme encapsulation in C# only to find a more pragmatic path. Discover the journey from a complex domain model to a simpler one that provides powerful guardrails for AI ...

My journey from a "perfectly" complex C# domain model to a pragmatic one that provides real guardrails for AI like Copilot.

What's the right balance between purity & pragmatism? New post 👇

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#CSharp #DotNet #DDD #AI

Not all heroes wear capes

A big welcome to all of our special guests joining Brady Stroud and Daniel Mackay on the .NET 9 Superpowers today! We have 30 keen learners joining us from all over, both in-person in Sydney and online! 🎉

We hope you enjoy the new #AI modules and the .NET demos throughout the day!

#dotnet

Slaying the EF Core Cartesian Explosion with AsSplitQuery() You built a rich domain model with aggregates and child collections, but now your queries are painfully slow. Learn how a one-line change in Entity Framework Core, .AsSplitQuery(), can fix the dreaded...

Is your EF Core query with multiple `.Include()`s causing a Cartesian Explosion and running for 30s+? 🐌

We fixed ours with a one-line change: `.AsSplitQuery()`. It's a lifesaver for rich domain models.

Here's how it works:

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#dotnet #efcore #csharp #performance

From Conversation to Documentation: A Modern Dev Workflow with AI We solve complex problems and then face the daunting task of writing documentation. What if the documentation wrote itself? Discover a workflow that turns a simple conversation with an AI into polishe...

I'm using the chat history from my AI sessions to create ADRs and blog posts. It saves a lot of time by not having to write everything from scratch after the fact.

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#DevWorkflow #Documentation #Productivity

When you're just #vibing and the LLM starts throwing shade

GitHub - SimonCropp/WinDebloat: A dotnet tool that removes the bloat in Windows A dotnet tool that removes the bloat in Windows. Contribute to SimonCropp/WinDebloat development by creating an account on GitHub.

dont forget to debloat github.com/SimonCropp/W...

YouTube video by Linus Tech Tips This World Record took YEARS (and a Million dollars..)

Loved this from @linusmediagroup.com … “just because” … we need more just because it was cool in our life 😊

youtu.be/BD-AJwqzWsU?...

Awesome, i can’t wait for it to be released for everyone 🤩

Best theory I’ve heard… My son says John Wick is going to come back because his dog is going to find all the dragon ball’s 😅😂

git is 20 years old now (well as of 2 days ago 😅)

Another great episode of GitButler Bits and Booze
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5VQ...

YouTube video by Gordon Beeming BrisBricks Chandler LEGO Fan Event 2025 #lego #legofans

We went to a cool lego spot on the weekend

BrisBricks Chandler LEGO Fan Event 2025
www.youtube.com/shorts/czi5m...

#lego #legofans

Awesome, thanks for sharing 😊

@krissetto.bsky.social I did a short search and can't see anything around why the Docker AI is called Gordon... does this info exist anywhere 😅

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman New Alternatives to Windows 11 Explorer - Files and File Pilot!

Learned about File Pilot (filepilot.tech) from @scott.hanselman.com's video this morning.

It's so fast and snappy that it makes me want to cry.

Why can't anyone write software like this anymore?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDUQ...

I’ve been using warp and it’s more friendly as well, I’ve not tried ghosty though

I have been thinking about getting an arm windows device as a secondary machine to run windows and Linux on it for certain tasks where it’s the right OS

Need is a short list (probably similar to windows day, want/like is slightly longer as I find with mac feeling much faster than my windows machines (I definitely didn’t run the equivalent spec machine) I find that the machine finishes tasks fast enough that I’m always looking for tools to go faster

With Cloudflare, I had to disable a couple toggles on my vulnerability.work domain in order to get through with automated tools... I guess it's working 😅

Just more reason to use Cloudflare for everything 💪 ... oh and it's completely free for what I'm using currently

With my Azure VM, I had to exclude the directory that hosts the target site, because you just can't turn off Defender (that's a good thing). It cleared any dodgy files as soon as they landed on disk and could not get around it easily without the exclusion