Will Velida 🇺🇦

Senior Software Engineer for Microsoft.
@Arsenal fan
Tweets, or Xeets are mine

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

So I'm heading to Bluesky, and treating this thing like a glorified RSS feed. It's a better app, and the folks there are a lot more interactive there. If you want to join me, I'd love to see you there: https://t.co/WLXxk0cSKQ

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

I'm doing The Push-Up Challenge again this year to raise funds for the for mental health in Australia! If you are willing and able, I'd appreciate any donations as I attempt to complete 3,307 push ups from June 3-26: https://t.co/g2w1zHDe6e #pushforbetter

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Crime? Brother it's a sport 😂

[Ryan @bernardooooV3]

If you want the next generation to watch this beautiful game, let them watch Manchester City, Barcelona, PSG, or Bayern Munich. What Arsenal are doing is a crime against football. We have probably lost many future football fans to Arsenal’s crimes.

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

For those of you building agents, I'd recommend that you take a look at the OWASP Top 10 for Agents and don't fall into the same trap that this guy unfortunately did: https://t.co/SDkmcF2mJw

[JER @lifeof_jer]

https://t.co/ofucbVgkLV

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Flying into Sydney tomorrow to deliver two talks at #NDCSydney 2026 this week! On Thursday, I'll be talking about Platform Engineering in the age of Gen AI, and on Friday, I'll be talking about building responsible AI Agents. If you're in town, come and say hi!

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

New blog post! I've built a multi-agent system into my personal health platform: A conversational Q&A agent over my health data using the Microsoft Agent Framework, and a report generator using GitHub Copilot SDK, with Entra Agent ID handling auth: https://t.co/ewIbEKtgpC

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Now that I can use my MCP server in my agent, I'm going to do another OWASP Top 10 series, this time focusing on MCP servers! This first article is about Preventing Token Mismanagement and Secret Exposure in MCP Servers: https://t.co/vYMcy1BlPJ

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Finally got around to sorting out my substack! I do deep dives on Microsoft technologies and AI, so if you're interested in that, subscribe here: https://t.co/B8YYRuFaK2

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Wrote up how I wired Claude into the Microsoft Agent Framework to build a chat agent for my health data side project. Function tools, AG-UI streaming, system prompt design, skipping Foundry entirely. Check it out: https://t.co/7mPX6igTJj

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

"Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command..."

...fixing...

"YOU wiped our production database with a Terraform command..."

[Mod @CFCMods]

Just realised the only reason Arsenal managed to squeeze a 3-2 win in the first leg is because we literally had no Caicedo or Palmer, they are so finished tonight bro 😭

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Can’t believe Chelsea have now recorded THREE moral victories over Arsenal in one season.

Embarrassing for the Gunners.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Havertz scores for Arsenal.

🔴 1-0 🔵 [90] #CFC | #CarabaoCup

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Welcome back to work everyone 😅(credit to bottlecap creative)

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

It's a brand new year, and I have a bunch of goals I'd like to achieve this year. I'd like to see the other side of 95kg, I want to be able to ollie on my skateboard, I want to be a better software engineer, do more impactful work, be a great husband, and generally be happier.

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Too bad for Elmo 🤣🤣🤣

[Veronika Cifrova Ostrihonova @VeronikaCifrova]

Historic first fine under the #DSA — and a clear signal to Big Tech: in Europe, rules apply to everyone, even billionaires.

If oligarchs such as Elon Musk think this is “censorship”, they might want to learn how European democracy works. And what does it actually mean the freedom of speech.

Childish posts and reposts will not undermine the EU. Europeans vote in free and fair elections and they will not bow to foreign pressure. Neither from Russia, nor from anywhere else.

And we don’t bow to foreign pressure either. We protect Europeans. 🇪🇺⚖️

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

I know I made a joke earlier but this is seriously concerning.

I am not convinced it's ai, I think it's just accelerating this trend. The enshitification has been marching forward for years now and I hate it

I know the rage is all about how you should do no typing, you should only use AI, and only luddites say anything different, but I urge you to practice programming and becoming an expert

It is worth it

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

Go to turn Windows Features on or off
Deselect Recall
Restart your machine.

[Will Velida 🇺🇦 @willvelida]

And it's the best state in the country.

[Nirgal451 🇦🇺🇺🇦 @Nirgal451]

There's a state in Australia with statewide public holidays for both a provincial horse race and the final of a local ball-kicking game, just weeks apart.

[Vic 🌮 @VicVijayakumar]

@rakyll Hand wrote some code today just to feel something

[Jaana Dogan ヤナ ドガン @rakyll]

Lately I’ve been feeling depressed because decades of our hard work is completely gone like it never existed. I heard from others that they also find it very hard to dial into the new norm of low quality software engineering.