Blog posts from eriklieben.com turned into conversations between two hosts. Covering .NET, TypeScript, Azure, event sourcing, and developer experience. https://eriklieben.com en © 2026 Erik Lieben Mon, 11 May 2026 21:19:37 GMT eriklieben.com static site generator https://podcast.eriklieben.com/artwork.jpg https://eriklieben.com episodic Erik Lieben Erik Lieben mail+podcast@eriklieben.com false Blog posts from eriklieben.com turned into conversations between two hosts. Covering .NET, TypeScript, Azure, event sourcing, and developer experience. no https://eriklieben.com/posts/aspire-with-browser-logs/ podcast-aspire-with-browser-logs Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Aspire 13.3 introduces WithBrowserLogs, an extension that attaches a tracked Chromium browser to an endpoint-capable resource. Console logs and network activity stream back into the Aspire dashboard alongside your backend traces. For anyone debugging a frontend that talks to a distributed backend, this is the hop you've been making manually for years. 8:03 12 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/azure-functions-linux-consumption-migration-paths/ podcast-azure-functions-linux-consumption-migration-paths Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Linux Consumption is going away, and Microsoft's migration guidance points at Flex Consumption. But is Flex actually the right destination for your apps, or are the other paths Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps, Container Apps Jobs, AKS with KEDA, or plain ACA worth a closer look? 11:36 11 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/local-llms-with-aspire-genai-tracing/ podcast-local-llms-with-aspire-genai-tracing Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Can't use Microsoft Foundry because of compliance or an Azure bill that doubles during an AI development spike, but still want the best AI debugging experience in Aspire? Here's how to keep the full GenAI chat-log sparkles while Ollama and Gemma 4 run locally. 8:58 10 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/dotnet-10-csharp-scripting-stop-context-switching/ podcast-dotnet-10-csharp-scripting-stop-context-switching Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:00:00 GMT You're debugging an issue and ask your AI agent to write a quick script that checks your database state. It hands you Python or JavaScript. You can read it, sure, but you can't review it at a glance the way you can with C. With .NET 10's dotnet run file.cs, there's no reason to leave your main coding language anymore for the utility scripts your agent writes during development. 6:26 9 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-aspire-debugging/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-aspire-debugging Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT You've discussed the feature with your AI agent, it wrote the code for it, but then what? You start the app, open the browser, click around, look for bugs, find one, describe it back to the agent. You're doing all the boring manual labor of verifying that what was built actually works. With Aspire's CLI overhaul in 13.2 and its new skills combined with Playwright CLI/skills the agent can manage and monitor your distributed app, open the browser, test the feature, and debug it. The tedious verify-and-fix loop becomes the agent's job, not yours. 9:39 8 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-dependency-management/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-dependency-management Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT We've all been there. You open your repository on Monday morning and there are a dozen dependency update PRs waiting. Some are patch updates, some are minor, one is a major version bump buried in the middle. CI is green on all of them. You merge them. What could go wrong? 8:56 2 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-documentation/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-documentation Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most teams write documentation after the feature ships. By then the context is stale, the pressure to move on is high, and the ADR nobody wrote is already forgotten. The agentic dev workflow treats docs as something you generate alongside the code, not something you backfill when someone complains the wiki is out of date. 6:50 5 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-quality-gates/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-quality-gates Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most code quality checks exist in three places: a CI pipeline that runs after you push, a mental checklist you may or may not remember, and post-commit hooks that hit you with a wall of failures right when you thought you were done. The agentic workflow collapses all of these into a single command that runs before the PR, covers both .NET and Angular, and pairs automated scanning with reasoning about what the results mean. 6:26 4 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-skill-building/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-skill-building Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Skills are the most powerful part of any agentic workflow, and they're also the easiest to get wrong. This post covers the full lifecycle: writing a skill from scratch, finding and adopting skills from the community, and closing the loop so your skills improve over time. 11:15 7 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-tdd/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-tdd Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Everyone has opinions about how tests should look. Naming conventions, structure patterns, which mocking library to use. The problem with AI coding assistants is that they have collected opinions for their learnings too, and they're usually not yours. 9:12 3 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/agentic-dev-workflow-ux-testing/ podcast-agentic-dev-workflow-ux-testing Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Manual usability testing is slow, expensive, and easy to skip when a deadline looms. The /tool-ux-study skill spawns a coordinated team of AI tester agents that each log in as a different persona, test the application under different themes and viewports, and report back — while a lead agent acts as UX research facilitator, observing sessions, probing for clarity, and synthesizing findings into a research-grade report. 7:14 6 full false https://eriklieben.com/posts/turning-ai-into-pair-programming-companion/ podcast-turning-ai-into-pair-programming-companion Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI models are trained on billions of lines of "everyone's" code good and bad code, generic best practice, the Stack Overflow answer, the textbook approaches. But your project might not be that generic; why else did you otherwise create it? 6:19 1 full false