DevRel at GitHub/Microsoft doing .NET and GitHub Copilot. Maintainer of https://nitter.cf/t.co/Yrm64gZFlo Pronouns: he/him
Sydney, Australia
Joined November 2008
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Still relying on one-shot prompts? 👀 Catch Episode 1 of #AIGenius Season 6 with @slace and explore visual orchestration, context engineering and token optimisation for smarter AI workflows. Watch on demand: msft.it/6010a016r
#MSAIGenius #AgenticAI #MSDevAsia
ALT Promotional image for Microsoft AI Genius Season 6, featuring Aaron Powell, a man in a blazer speaking on stage. Text reads: 'Smarter workflows. Better results.' Episode 1 highlights GitHub Canvas and Token Economics. 'Watch Episode 1 on demand.'
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This week: go beyond chat and start architecting AI agent workflows.
Explore GitHub Canvas, context engineering, token consumption, MCP integrations + custom Copilot plugins with Microsoft Reactor.
Save your spot: msft.it/6013aq0C9
#AIGenius #GitHub #AI
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As traffic grew exponentially, we moved 99.99999% of GitHub's Git repos to Azure. A new write path moves the last, busiest repos, keeps cross-region round trips from capping throughput, and enables stateless Azure Blob Storage replicas.
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UMMMMMM Did someone say canvas support in @code?!??!
GLORIOUS! Copilot app, CLI, and now code!
code.visualstudio.com/update…
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dotNET blog: Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET ift.tt/NFh9IqO
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Get ready to make smarter Al decisions with @slace, Principal Developer Advocate, Microsoft!
Learn how to optimise tokens, make the most out of Github Copilot and build tailored experiences at AI Genius Season 6: msft.it/6017aSchc
@MSFTReactor
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Meet Agent Buddy! 🤖 A desk buddy for your AI coding agents.
It shows when GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, Grok and others are working, need you, or are done. Run it on an ESP32 device, or use the new desktop app. No device needed!
Website: getagentbuddy.com
Repo: github.com/DanWahlin/agent-b…
Special thanks to @darrenjrobinson and @bradygaster for their PRs!
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HELP ME (please RT)
Q: You are a developer. You use @sqlserver. Do you prefer @visualstudio or @code for real-world dev? 🙏
45%Visual Studio
32%VS Code
23%SQL Management Studio
0%I'm not a dev/sql user
31 votes • Final results Aaron Powell retweeted
The busiest single repo on GitHub saw roughly a billion requests in ONE MONTH. Today, we shared how we’re rebuilding GitHub’s storage layer (without changing how you use GitHub) decoupling compute & storage so reads and writes scale independently.
Quicker pushes, pulls, and a platform that stays fast as more agents and developers code. We’re designing against some of the largest workloads on the platform so there’s headroom for everyone.
More below on how this works and excited to show you more at @GitHub Universe. 👇
Aaron Powell retweeted
WSL containers is now generally available
msft.it/6014acIIa
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Get the icon pack for Visual Studio now with many more and new icons that look spectacular - even on high-dpi screens marketplace.visualstudio.com…
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Ever watched your coding agent confidently write massive amounts of JavaScript for a simple swipe gesture, only for the animation to stutter? 😅
Watch our side-by-side test: with Modern Web Guidance enabled, the coding agent pulls expert-vetted swipe-to-remove guide into its context window, handling features like scroll snap and intersection observer with ease → goo.gle/mwg
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We're hiring for the @code product team!
• Product Manager 2 - lnkd.in/g5FdRH6P
• Senior Product Manager - lnkd.in/gXAhC-Q6
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.NET Conf 2026 is coming! November 10-12th!
Register & Save the Date today!
3 Days of .NET 11, New Tooling, and amazing Community sessions!
devblogs.microsoft.com/dotne…
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🎂 Many of those responsible are quite possibly no longer on this platform, but 20yrs ago TODAY the mythical @jquery launched v1.0.
As usual, sharing a thread I posted after a short email exchange I had w/ @jeresig a few yrs back, ICYMI.
nitter.cf/HenriHelvetica/status/…
14 yrs ago this week, jQuery (pre 1.0) was introduced and presented by @jeresig in a talk the same weekend @ BarCampNYC: Jan 14th 2006. Celebrating a champagne birthday 🎉! We had a quick chat about it and wanted to share deets . A short thread ⬇
Aaron Powell retweeted
🐧 Linux turns 35 today.
That seemed like a pretty good excuse to round up 35 of the best free and open source games you can play on Linux.
Some classics. Some hidden gems. Some surprisingly ambitious projects. 🎮👇
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On August 17, GitHub experienced a significant outage that disrupted developers and organizations around the world. If you were trying to ship software that day, we let you down.
I posted in March and April about the steps we’re taking to make GitHub more reliable. The work is still underway. Here is an update:
github.blog/news-insights/co…
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The maintainer love team at GitHub is on a roll. You can now block a user right from their comment on an issue or PR in your personal repos Yes, that includes me 🙃. You can also add a private note on why you did it.
The team is shipping weekly to make the maintainer experience better. Keep telling us what you and your projects need!
github.blog/changelog/2026-0…
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My #Umbraco Codegarden 2026 talk is up on YouTube now, Here's the rundown: shazwazza.com/post/automate-…