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Last week I released a new episode of my "The Maintainers" video series. This time I talk with Nicholas Blumhardt of Autofac and Serilog fame.

I've been digging into Vue 3 a lot lately. One topic that a lot of people seem to be discussing whether to use Vuex or not in Vue's Composition API (that is prominent in Vue 3).

I've been working with Vue 3 Beta and RC (currently in RC5) and early on I needed some validation but the Vue stalwards of vuelidate and vee-validate weren't working with the Composition API early on. What was I do to?

The next episode is now available! This time I'm talking to Shaun Walker. He's the developer responsible for the long-lived open source project, DotNetNuke! He's also created a new framework called Oqtane for Blazor.

[UPDATE] After reviewing some of the code and talking with commenters, I agree that using HostServices for console apps is a bad idea. I've refactored this to use the host but not the HostService. I believe that the entire host is still useful for configuration, logging, and DI. See below for the latest changes:

I'm continuing the series out open source developers. This week I talk with Brad Wilson of Microsoft about his history with developing xUnit.

I know you've heard this before, but I'm starting yet another video series Don't worry the Rants are continuing soon, just didn't feel right to complain during COVID-19 too much.

I've been digging into Vue 3's beta for a while now. I like the new composition API, but it looks like there weren't that many quickstarts for getting a Vue 3 project going.

I had great fun today talking with the netPonto User Group on Zoom. It was a fun group who had great questions about gRPC.

If you're not familiar with the .NET Foundation, it's a great organization that helps promote and fund the .NET community and open source projects. You can read more about it here if you're not familiar with it: https://dotnetfoundation.org/

In my spare time, I've been working on a micro-services example to try and make a minimum viable micro-service using ASP.NET Core. To make things that much harder, I've also decided to use Vue 3 for the front end. In for a penny, in for a pound.

Another of my talks that were scheduled after offering my speaking skills on Twitter, I got to talk to a great group of developers in Sheffield England. I did a quick talk on using the Microsoft API Versioning system to version your APIs.

I've been mulling this topic for a long time now. I had aimed to make this into one of my video rants, but I want to make sure the words I mean are the words I say. This is purely my view of the idea of privilege in my own life.

Yet another of my talks that resulted from being bored at home and on Twitter. I had a great time talking to this great group.

I recently offered my speaking skills on Twitter since I'm stuck at the house. My wife really wants me out of the house, but luckily I like the sound of my own voice enough that virtual talks fill that same void.

As Vue 3 continues it's relentless Beta drive (with almost daily Beta builds), all of us Vue developers have to get ready for changes. The one I want to mention today is the changes in mounting a new Vue object.

With Vue 3 now in beta, some people are starting to look into it deeper (including me). While a lot of the features are meant to improve the performance and speed, the Vue team did decided to take out a feature lots of people use: filters.

Thanks everyone who attended my talk on gRPC at today's NDC Porto virtual event. You had such great questions. I appreciate all the interaction!

It's been a long time since I started and eventually stopped recording episodes for the Hello World Podcast. My goal has always been to have exactly 100 episodes.

With the pandemic, I'm getting bored at the house. And if you know me, you know I need a project. My wife has already heard all of my stories, so I have to start recording myself.

As we're all in this crisis together, Pluralsight has opened up their entire library for free in April. No Credit Card needed! Just sign up.

The last couple of years I've needed a couple of new sites to promote things I'm working. Because I'm a .NET developer, my first instinct is always to just File->New an ASP.NET site. But should I?

Not sure if anyone is as anxious about the state of the world as I am, but I'm a little freaked out. I don't have any medical skills and am already isolating myself in place (with my wonderful wife). So I don't feel like there is much I can do to help.

In this last post in the series, i'll show you how to use GitHub Actions to automate when you want to push a new version of your container to your Azure App Service.