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Stephen Cleary is a software developer, author, and independent consultant with deep expertise in asynchronous and concurrent programming in .NET. He is the author of "Concurrency in C# Cookbook" (O'Reilly, 2nd edition), the definitive practical reference on async, parallel, reactive, and multithreaded programming in C#. Stephen is one of the top-ranked users on Stack Overflow, widely recognized for his authoritative answers on async/await, and he has published extensively on the subject through MSDN Magazine, conference talks, and his long-running blog. His most recent blog post, "Debug Dumps in Visual Studio," was published in December 2025 and continues his tradition of sharing hard-won, practical knowledge with the .NET community.

Website: https://stephencleary.com
Blog: https://blog.stephencleary.com
Book: https://stephencleary.com/book/
GitHub: https://github.com/StephenCleary
Twitter/X: https://x.com/astevecleary
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Nuget - Nito Comparers

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on May 4, 2026

Tim Corey: Learning AI Architecture - Episode 400

Tim Corey is an nine-time Microsoft MVP, a software developer with more than 30 years of experience, and one of the most recognized online educators in the .NET ecosystem. DevForge at IAmTimCorey.com -- has helped millions of developers learn to think and code like professionals. He is the author of Getting Started with C#: A Practical Guide, the creator of the popular C# Mastercourse, and the host of the DevQuestions podcast, now in its seventh season. Tim learned software development the hard way so his students don't have to -- and he is a returning guest, having joined us previously on Episode 241.

Previous appearance(s) on the Azure DevOps Podcast:

Episode 241: Tim Corey: Learning Programming (Apr 17, 2023)

Website: https://www.iamtimcorey.com/
Blog: https://blog.iamtimcorey.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamtimcorey/
Twitter / X: https://x.com/IAmTimCorey
GitHub: https://github.com/TimCorey
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IAmTimCorey
Podcast: https://iamtimcorey.buzzsprout.com/

Recent projects / posts: - Course: Upgrading to .NET 10 From Start to Finish https://www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/upgrading-to-dotnet-10/
- Course: C# Mastercourse https://www.iamtimcorey.com/courses/csharp-mastercourse/
- Game Development Mastercourse (preorder) https://gamedevelopmentmastercourse.com/
- Blog: "Does Vibe Coding Have A Place In Software Development?" (May 2025)
- Blog: "What Microsoft Choosing Go over C# Can Teach Us" (Apr 2025)
- Blog: "Can AI Do a Developer's Job?" (Mar 2025)
- DevQuestions Podcast Ep. 299: "Why is the job market slowing down?" (Mar 5, 2026)

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on April 27, 2026

Chet Husk: .NET Tooling - Episode 399

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LinkedIn
.NET Blog

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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Twitter / X
GitHub
Podcast
Primer

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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LinkedIn
Twitter / X (@michaellperry)
GitHub
Personal Site

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
LinkedIn
Twitter / X - (@Aaronontheweb)
GitHub
Personal Blog
YouTube (Personal)

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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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on March 30, 2026

Mads Torgersen: Talking AI - Episode 395

Github Link - C#
Episode 325
Learn C#

Mads is a Principal Architect at Microsoft, where he has been for over 20 years. He's been the Lead Designer of the C# language for a long time. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 325 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time.

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on March 23, 2026

James World - AI - Episode 394

James World is a technology leader with decades of hands‑on engineering experience, enabling enterprises to thrive through modern cloud and AI‑driven solutions. He has spent well over ten years architecting cloud‑native platforms on Microsoft Azure, guiding multiple development teams through complex digital transformations while remaining deeply involved in the code and critical technical decision‑making.

His background spans financial services and other enterprise environments where reliability, performance, and scalability are non‑negotiable. He is a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert and a polyglot developer, with extensive commercial experience primarily in .NET and C#, applied across distributed systems, event‑driven architectures, and modern AI integration patterns. He is currently focused on driving responsible and effective adoption of Generative AI within the enterprise—from engineering productivity and product enhancement to business‑assistive tooling.

He has been involved with AI initiatives and won several AI hackathons, helping organizations move from experimentation to meaningful strategic value. He enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring engineers, and sharing practical insights on architecture, modern software development, and AI‑augmented delivery practices. He believes technologists never stop learning—and that commitment is what keeps the industry exciting.

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Context7
GitHub SpecKit
OpenSpec
Striker for mutation testing

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on March 16, 2026

Daniel Ward: AI Agents - Episode 393

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LinkedIn
X Account
Github
Lean Techniques

Daniel Ward is a Microsoft .NET MVP and software consultant at Lean TECHniques in San Antonio, TX. He works with teams to deliver high‑quality software through modern engineering practices, including effective CI/CD, automated testing, AI adoption, and product management. His background spans multiple industries such as finance, retail, and agriculture, and he has served as a software developer, technical coach, agile coach, and tech lead. Daniel is also a conference speaker, a contributor to the .NET community, and the creator behind Dan In a Can, where he writes about .NET, testing, DevOps, and developer tooling. Outside of his professional work, he enjoys piano, guitar, swing dancing, and game development.

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"Kiro" AI Coding Tool

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on March 9, 2026

Richard Lander: DotNet Inspect - Episode 392

Episode 289
Episode 148
Episode 50
DotNet Skills

Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He's been with Microsoft since 2000, and working on .NET since 2003! Currently, he's working on runtime features, docker container experience, blogging and customer engagement. He's also part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features.

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Suzanne Cook's Assembler Blog
SourceLink
dnx dotnet-inspect

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