Ben Coleman

Open source ⁞ Azure ⁞ cloud native ⁞ DevOps ⁞ K8s
Other geek/tech stuff. Principal engineering manager @Microsoft. Opinions are my own
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[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

My ARM template visualizer / viewer extension for VS Code is now up on the marketplace. I've done lots of work getting the user experience right. If you do anything with ARM please try it out! https://t.co/Wl3tCRlNKh #azure #vscode

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

I've waited SIX YEARS for GitHub to fix their workflow_dispatch API
https://t.co/XlKgzeK9ff
Which means I can finally add some much requested features to my GitHub Action https://t.co/LUk1xOkTto

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

I thought I'd give old C# and .NET a spin for some side project idea. Compiling a simple C# hello-world app to WASM takes 82 seconds!
When I use Go with the same build target/env the, time is ~2 sec. Sigh I think I'll stick with Go

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

Microsoft nerds, help settle a little argument. What shorthand for Azure DevOps do you use?

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

Dumb Kubernetes naming decisions #274 - kube-proxy is not actually a proxy, no traffic or data flows through it

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

The next gen of devs are going to be ok

[𝔻𝕦𝕩 𝔹𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕦𝕞 @Face_Almighty44]

On the one hand, lmao. On the gripping hand…also lmao.

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

Help me A/B test something. Which view and layout do you prefer?

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

Designers of CSS: "We're going to allow developers total freedom to style anything on the page"
Designers of the HTML color picker: "We're about to ruin your day"

[Attila @attilablenesi]

Beautiful new chapter for Apple Design

[kitze · supermac.io 🐦‍🔥 @thekitze]

the new iOS switch is the most cursed UI element I’ve ever seen in my life

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Honestly kudos to Apple for keeping their DEI promises well into 2025 and employing a 100% blind design team

[Nick Chapsas @nickchapsas]

"How can I use 'dotnet run app.cs' with Clean Architecture and CQRS" bro this community is too far gone

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

People lamenting the dead of Stack Overflow... It was shit. A toxic hellscape of elitism, gatekeeping and outdated information.
https://t.co/KbHaP06csF

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

Python is extremely unconcerned

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

We’re about to take C# to the next level. Look out Python 👀

#dotnet #csharp

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

https://t.co/0aYUqjQmuq

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

@kanwisher @migueldeicaza The wrong people - no, these were good people.

Was it ever the right direction - very questionable

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

Horrible these people are victims of some really, really poor product direction decisions by Microsoft

[Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza]

Microsoft laid off the senior engineers of .NET on Android and key figures of Maui.

This might just be the US wave, so perhaps the whole thing is doomed.

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

This book destroyed a generation of programmers. I was one of them. Took a very long time to unlearn this crap.

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

"Making a retro style game must be easy, everything looks so basic" So here's my basic code to draw a single sprite in my current game

[Ben Coleman @BenCodeGeek]

I love how Lua's answer to everything is a table. Want an object? That's a table. An array? that's also table. You want maps, classes, modules? Yep all tables