David Boike

Solution Architect at Particular Software, author of Learning NServiceBus, beer brewer, husband and father of two

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

software engineers adding JavaScript to everything

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@sadukie @ScooterPhoenix @ParticularSW Hey! Glad you enjoyed it!

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@AdrianHofman Let’s just all recommend it on LinkedIn and then it can take care of all the recruiter spam too.

[Derek Comartin @codeopinion]

An underrated solution to a problem is finding out why you have the problem in the first place and then avoid it. We are way too quick to throw patterns/tooling to problems instead of taking a step back and look at how we got in the situation in the first place.

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@SimonCropp I think about stuff like this when releasing a patch release to bump a vulnerable dependency which will only have any benefit for those who update their dependencies.

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@MartinDotNet @Indu_alagarsamy ?

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

I get an announcement and push notification if freezer is open >5m. Bathroom fan runs auto based on humidity. Front door autolocks after 10m. Mail arriving is announced. When dishwasher is clean it’s added round-robin to one of the kids’ chore charts.

But mostly…it’s fun to do!

[Christoph Nakazawa @cnakazawa]

Home automation seems like such a scam. There is barely anything out there that is beyond“cool story bro” yet many people want to “automate” their homes.

Are there actually any products out there that are major quality of life improvements?

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@cassidoo Only for the Minnesota State Fair “app” which I contend is one of the finest examples of offline-capable device-capability-supporting cross-platform web-based “app” I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/ZeaSjTqUju and because seriously cheese curds.

[LINQPad·Joe Albahari @linqpad]

LINQPad 8 has a brand-new Excel interop engine. The exporter now emits native .xlsx files, accurately preserving datatypes, and creates Excel tables with AutoFilter. You can even create spreadsheets cell-by-cell, using the simplest-ever inbuilt API! https://t.co/RHAiLkHwkV

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@AdrianHofman Why? Ctrl+K,C and Ctrl+K,U manage this very quickly and easily and show the entire change in a diff. Multi-line requires edits in 2 places.

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

I have a handful of broken automations because I can’t tell if my garage door is up or down, thanks to Chamberlain blocking the API from my “unauthorized access” to the device I own.

@Chamberlain you suck & I will make sure nobody I know ever buys your products again.

[Ars Technica @arstechnica]

Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes https://t.co/mByBLbPUlQ

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@phildub Thanks, glad it was helpful!

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@strommen I’d vote for you. 😉

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@SimonCropp @sfeldman I think you could already do that with the newer saga scenario testing framework, but then replace any asserts with Verify calls. https://t.co/G1s5mbqIr6

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@strommen MSP-Ames-DSM-KC please

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@sfeldman @knunery What about an actual NServiceBus retry policy? https://t.co/ujvkLjYnZM

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@gregtew @IASTATEAD Maybe. The turnstiles are dumb and get in the way though. I’ve seen the same NFC tickets at Wrigley and Target Field this summer but without turnstiles and it’s much simpler, I just made it beep green 4 times and my family walked in.

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@strommen So…that means I’m not your favorite Internet personalities?

[David Boike @DavidBoike]

@jbogard Now make Google do the same?