GitHub, .NET, Azure, F# and other random stuff
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash LLM's and Smaller, Less Popular Programming Languages I work for GitHub, and so I've been a happy Copilot user since it was first created. It's been amazing to watch the pace of improvements in all of the foundation models that we use, and all of the models out there. (For programming, I love o1-mini, and I'm sure I'll love o3-mini, too.) I'm also an F#…
(image by Simon Berger , shared on Unsplash ) I'm pleased to have the Friday-of-Christmas-weekend slot for F# Advent Calendar 2023. That means I know a lot of you will have some time to unwind with a longer read. I hope you enjoy. 😉 Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had…
Photo by Bryan Goff on Unsplash . TL;DR: I've tried everything I can to get Dapr to talk to the CosmosDB Emulator container, which ships with a self-signed certificate and which therefore fails making an https connection, and I'm giving up for now. If I find a solution to this, I'll write another blog post about it and link to it here. If there's no link, 🤷♂️. Introduction So... I'm working on…
Photo by Clint Patterson I was setting up this very blog you're seeing, and wanted to try Orchard CMS. So far, I like it a lot. For the media library - the part where I upload the images that go into the posts - I wanted to use an Azure Storage account, and it was a bit of a journey to get it set up. The Orchard docs show how to configure everything in appsettings.json , but I wanted to set my…