In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Matt Hunt to chat about using the CQS pattern to improve your codebase quality and help avoid writing those ‘Big Ball of Mud’ code-bases that sadly we see way too often in our industry!

CQS (Command Query Separation) is a pattern that states that a method should either be a command that performs an action or a query that returns data, but not both. This approach promotes a clear separation of concerns, improves readability, and can lead to more maintainable and scalable codebases.

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In this episode, I was joined by both Tim Cadenbach and Matthias Jost to chat about the exciting new .NET community - We Are .NET! At its core, it’s a community portal aggregating and presenting videos, blogs, twitch, and other feeds of any creator with .NET content. However, it’s not just content aggregation though - and is becoming a rapidly growing community.

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In this episode, I was joined by Steve Gordon to chat about the Elastic Stack, and his work on the Elasticsearch .NET client.

Steve is a senior engineer at Elastic, maintaining the .NET client libraries. He’s a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, speaker, and blogger, and user-group organiser.

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In this episode, I was joined by Ian Cooper to chat about the Brighter and Darker frameworks.

Brighter is a framework for building messaging applications with .NET and C#. It can be used with an in-memory bus, or for interoperability in a microservices architecture allowing out of process messaging via a wider range of middleware transports. And Darker is the query counterpart to Brighter.

Ian is a Senior Principal Engineer at Just Eat Takeaway, frequent public speaker, and organiser of London .NET user group.

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In this milestone 50th episode (🥳🎉🍻) - I was joined by David Wengier to chat about how .NET’s hot reload works! We covered how the metadata in dotnet assemblies work, and how hot reload manipulates this data in various ways in memory to do its thing. We also touched a bit on the whole hot-reload dotnet drama thing! 🤫🙈

We had quite a fun chat afterwards too, so decided to include that in the episode - so keep playing past my usual outro to hear that.

David is a Roslyn and Razor tooling developer at Microsoft, living in Melbourne, Australia.

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In this episode, I was joined by Mattias Karlsson to chat about Cake! Nope, not the food - something _even better_! Cake is a build orchestration tool where your builds scripts are written in C#. There are tons of addons for most tasks you can think of, and it's easy to write your own. And you can run these all locally just like you would on the build agent. I dread to think how many many days I've lost when doing CI/CD natively in YAML where I've had to push to CI/CD, waiting for a build agent to pick it up, just to find that I'd got a path or indentation wrong. Doing this locally in Cake dramatically reduces that developer cycle. And thanks to the VSCode extension adding intellisense and linting - this is reduced even further.

Mattias Karlsson is a Partner and Technical fellow at WCOMAB. He's a Microsoft Azure and Developer Technologies MVP, and is on the Board Of Directors at the .NET Foundation. He's also a conference organiser, and open-source maintainer and contributor.

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In this episode, I was joined by Isaac Levin that chat about… way too many things to put in an episode title, that’s for sure! 😂 We decided to not have a particular topic in mind - and just chat and see where the conversation took us! We ended up talking about podcasting, working remotely and the pandemic, general career stuff, public speaking, containers, AWS, learning, mindsets, guitars, and more!

Isaac is a .NET Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services and a Microsoft MVP. He hosts a podcast called Coffee and Open Source, where he interviews folks from across the tech industry.

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In this episode, I was joined by Tanya Janca to chat about Application Security (or AppSec for short!). We chatted about various topics - from security topics and training, to her book and online community, to public speaking!

Tanya is the founder and CEO at We Hack Purple, which is an online learning academy, community and weekly podcast that revolves around teaching everyone to create secure software. She’s also the Director of Developer Relations at Bright, and best-selling author of the book Alice and Bob Learn Application Security.

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In this episode, I was joined again by Joseph Woodward to geek out on Vim! Joe joined us on the last episode to talk about the Go programming language - and as we’re both huge fans of Vim, we decided to stay on and record a second episode chatting about it!

In it, we talk about both the Vim way of using the keyboard (Vim keybindings), and also Vim the editor and its plugin ecosystem.

Joseph is a Software Engineer at Form3, speaker, and open-source contributor. Lover of Go, OSS, Neovim and distributed systems things.

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In this episode, I was joined by Joseph Woodward to chat all about the Go programming language. Joe has done a lot of dotnet in the past, but is now focusing more on Go - so an ideal guest to help us compare on contrast.

Joseph is a Software Engineer at Form3, speaker, and open-source contributor. Lover of Go, OSS, Neovim and distributed systems things.

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