Monthly Archives: April 2026

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Chet Husk is a Product Manager on the .NET Tools team at Microsoft, where he leads the .NET SDK, MSBuild, Template Engine, and Install Scripts teams -- shaping how millions of .NET developers build, publish, and containerize their applications. Before joining Microsoft in 2021, Chet was deeply embedded in the F# open-source community, serving on the F# Software Foundation Board and co-maintaining Ionide, the popular F# extension for VS Code. At Microsoft, he drove the built-in container publishing support that lets developers create container images with just "dotnet publish" -- no Dockerfile required -- and recently shipped SLNX, the new XML-based solution file format for the .NET CLI. He is also exploring the intersection of AI and build tooling with an open-source MCP server that lets AI assistants analyze MSBuild binary logs.

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Recent projects / posts Blog:

"Introducing support for SLNX, a new, simpler solution file format in the .NET CLI" (Mar 2025, .NET Blog)
mcp-binlog-tool: MCP server for AI-assisted MSBuild binary log analysis
Blog: "Announcing built-in container support for the .NET SDK" (.NET Blog)
.NET Conf 2023 talk: ".NET Containers advancements in .NET 8"
.NET Conf 2022 Keynote presenter

SLNGEN .NET Tool /dotnet/skills
GitHub repo structed nuget package - devlooped

EBNF Grammar (Extended Backus–Naur Form)
https://msbuildlog.com/
https://github.com/devlooped/StructId

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on April 20, 2026

Pierce Boggan: AI Workflows - Episode 398

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Pierce Boggan is the PM Lead for Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot at Microsoft, where he guides the product direction of the world's most popular code editor as it evolves into an AI-native development platform. He joined Microsoft through the Xamarin acquisition more than a decade ago and has worked across mobile tools, Visual Studio, and the Teams Toolkit before taking the helm of the VS Code team in late 2024. Pierce co-hosts the VS Code Insiders Podcast, presented in the GitHub Universe 2025 keynote, and recently helped his team make the historic shift from monthly to weekly releases -- powered by AI. He is also the creator of Primer, an open-source CLI that prepares codebases for AI-assisted development.

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Recent projects / posts:

Agent HQ in VS Code announced (Dec 2025) -- unified view for managing local, background, and cloud AI agents
GitHub Universe 2025 keynote presenter (Nov 2025)
VS Code Insiders Podcast: "VS Code -- 2025 Wrapped" (Dec 2025)
Primer CLI -- prepares repos for AI-assisted development (423 stars)
nano-banana-mcp -- MCP server enabling image creation in GitHub Copilot
VS Code team moved from monthly to weekly releases (Mar 2026 interview)

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on April 13, 2026

Michael Perry: AI-assisted Development - Episode 397

Michael Perry is a Director at Improving Enterprises and a self-described "Software Mathematician" who has spent his career applying mathematical principles to software development, drawing on the foundational work of thinkers like Bertrand Meyer, James Rumbaugh, and Donald Knuth. He is the author of "The Art of Immutable Architecture" and the creator and maintainer of Jinaga, an open-source immutable runtime framework for building collaborative and distributed applications in .NET and JavaScript. A former seven-year Microsoft MVP, Michael has produced multiple Pluralsight courses covering CQRS, XAML Patterns, Cryptography, and Provable Code,and is a frequent speaker at developer conferences across the country. At Improving, he helps enterprise clients harness the power of immutable architecture and software mathematics to build scalable, robust systems.

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FactoryEngineering.dev roocode - plugin for VSCode - has subagents
Windsurf (AI Tool)

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on April 6, 2026

Aaron Stannard: Software 2.0 using AI - Episode 396

Aaron Stannard is the Founder and CEO of Petabridge and the co-founder and lead maintainer of Akka.NET — the most widely used actor model framework for .NET, with over 21 million NuGet downloads and adoption by Fortune 500 companies like Boeing, Bank of America, and S&P Global. A two-time startup founder, Aaron previously founded MarkedUp Analytics and worked at Microsoft as a Startup Developer Evangelist before dedicating himself full-time to building the Akka.NET ecosystem. He's a Vanderbilt University graduate, a former Microsoft MVP, and has spoken at major conferences worldwide including NDC, Techorama, QCon, and .NET Conf. Beyond Akka.NET, Aaron is known for creating NBench (a .NET performance benchmarking framework), the Sdkbin marketplace for .NET developers, and for his prolific blog and YouTube content on distributed systems, .NET internals, and software engineering philosophy.

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Episode 172
Software 2.0 Case Study
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openclaw simon Crop - verify library
SlopWatch - detect reward hacking behavior
Opus 4.6 & Sonnet 4.6
Copilot
OpenCode
Claude Code
Codex 5.3 model for debugging
Qwen2.5 27B llama.cpp local.
tmux - Terminal multiplexer suo apt install -y tmux
Ralph LLM loop
Akka.NET
StirTrek, May 1 in Ohio
NDC Copenhagen in June

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