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The Latest from Aaronontheweb: Signing NuGet Packages Using Azure DevOps and Workload Identity Federation
Signing NuGet Packages Using Azure DevOps and Workload Identity FederationPublished on April 14, 2025 in 12 minutes to read Azure released a major update to some of their VM images last week and it’s caused a number of problems for me:
I have no idea what Microsoft did to kill this service off, but my guess is they finally stopped supporting the ancient version of .NET Framework this was running on starting on April 11th or so: We had owed a customer an update today and the race was on to find a replacement for This post explains how to do that. |
Aaronontheweb
I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.
Software 2.0: Code is Cheap, Good Taste is Not Last week I shipped a feature that would have taken me ~4 days in about 45 minutes: 8 parallel solutions explored, 1 verified, reviewed, deployed. That's not vibe coding. It's a process. I'm calling it Software 2.0. Software 1.0 is software you specify. Software 2.0 is software you verify. I just published a long essay formalizing how I've been using LLMs to ship production software - not as a novelty, but as a disciplined engineering process...
Why Your Software Sucks: Inheritance Published on January 26, 2026 in 7 minutes to read “I have a great idea: let’s create a five-layer deep inheritance hierarchy with a universal base class that every domain object inherits from! That way, when requirements inevitably change, we’ll only need to touch… everything.” This is episode two of my Why Your Software Sucks video series, and today we’re talking about inheritance - specifically, how deep inheritance hierarchies turn your codebase into...
Why Am I Paying $40,000 for the Birth of My Child? Published on November 30, 2025 My third child arrives in a week. The cost? $40,000. Out of pocket. Cash. Not because something went wrong medically. That's just the price of admission for a self-employed entrepreneur who wants to grow a family while running a small business in America. $25,680 in annual premiums + $14,300 deductible = the privilege of bringing a new taxpayer into this world. I wrote about this because Michael Green's viral...