Brian Chavez

Founder at Bit Armory Inc. GitHub star collector refactoring bad code, shipping tasty bits, and coding to great beats.

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

Late posting; but I received the Microsoft MVP award for 2024-'25 for my public open-source work. Thank you @Microsoft and @MVPAward #mvpbuzz
Largest impact project for nomination:
* Bogus (79 million downloads) https://t.co/i9nFAOfO5Y
* MVP Profile: https://t.co/jxSQWvPUrH

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@Aaronontheweb was about to say; i might have missed the memo on 3.7 and was about to start upgrading 😅

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@Aaronontheweb When integrating .NET app with some 3rd party SDKs, have had the need to download 3rd party SDK source for extra context, but once the SDK is referenced in a prompt the model has the extra context to get code pretty close to a production ready implementation.

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@Aaronontheweb are you using the stock qwen models or unsloth tunes? I've mostly been running opencode + openspec + unsloth on Zorin OS VM homelab -> to a 4090 GPU + LM Studio over network. and it's been absolutely great and stable so far.

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@DanJSum It's so cool, thank you 🙏I know it's not a huge deal for most people, but for me, it was my last programming goal to make it on the top 100 at least once. Just one small dent in helping everyone build better software. 🎉

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

🙏 Recently found out and humbled. A huge and big thank you to the .NET community for making Bogus rank in the top 100 nuget packages in the world. ♥️ https://t.co/GNrrtQxpsY
#dotnet #csharp #nuget

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

🎉Released Bogus v35.6.4:
* PR 619: Fixed Image.PlaceholderUrl; uses https://t.co/RM4HFAP5Yw now.
* Several general C# code improvements by
@SimonCropp🙏
... see HISTORY_md for details.
✅3728 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
https://t.co/sD6lVH2OhZ

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@elonmusk @grok Austrian economics is real economics that describe how an economy grows and why it doesn't. Keynesian economics is just more hair of the dog.

[Sander ten Brinke | Microsoft MVP @sandertenbrinke]

I love seeing the combination of @bchavez 's #Bogus and OpenAPI transformers in this video from .NET Conf!

https://t.co/24bRzJMURW

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@sandertenbrinke Very cool Sander! Thanks for posting! I didn't realize Bogus had a small spot in .NET Conf 2024!

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@Mpdreamz @KooKiz Thank you for the kind words! 🙏 #dotnet ftw!

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@param373r Thank you! Happy to hear it helps!

[Paramjot Malhotra @akaParam]

BOGUS is the BEST CREATION EVERR!! <3 @bchavez

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

🎉Released Bogus v35.6.1:
* PR 560: Ensure Belgian National Numbers have padded checksum.
* Bogus Premium: Fixes C# Roslyn Analyzer detecting read-only properties as missing rules.
✅3658 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
https://t.co/0A3BWdOsV7

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

🎉Released Bogus v35.6.0:
* PR 556: Remove obsolete/non-working LoremPixel image service. `Images.LoremPixelUrl()` is removed.
* PR 557: Added Bogus.Extensions.Belgium extension method: Person.NationalNumber() / Rijksregisternummer #dotnet #csharp https://t.co/JZdvdzGUe7

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@sjkilleen @Microsoft @MVPAward Thank you Sean! :)

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

Late posting; but I received the Microsoft MVP award for 2024-'25 for my public open-source work. Thank you @Microsoft and @MVPAward #mvpbuzz
Largest impact project for nomination:
* Bogus (79 million downloads) https://t.co/i9nFAOfO5Y
* MVP Profile: https://t.co/jxSQWvPUrH

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@stilldrey @Microsoft @MVPAward Thank you Daniel! :)

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@mkristensen Implement the ability to check out an incoming Pull Request from a GitHub user (who forked). IIRC, this was present in the GH extension but got dropped when GH integration went native.

[Brian Chavez @bchavez]

@DanJSum @Microsoft @MVPAward Thanks Daniel @DanJSum!