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The Latest from Aaronontheweb: Stop Failing The `git clone && run` Test
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Stop Failing The `git clone && run` TestPublished on October 17, 2025 in 10 minutes to read I’ve done a ton of consulting as part of my work at Petabridge over the past 10 years and I run into developer onboarding problems constantly with new clients. It takes much longer than it should to clone a customer’s application from source control and successfully run it. Continuous deployment and continuous integration (CI/CD) get a ton of attention in the DevOps space, but improving the “first run” experience for onboarding new team members is rarely mentioned in these spaces. A strong “first run” experience just as important and an essential ingredient to good CI/CD outcomes. Bad “First Run” ExperiencesIf your “first run” experience is agonizing, this means your local development feedback loop is broken too even for experienced members of your team. For instance, if I want to make a SQL schema change and test it, how easy is it for me to:
If your applications’ first run experience is any more complicated than
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Aaronontheweb
I write about .NET, open source software, the Microsoft ecosystem, my adventures with startups, and outer space.
Your HTML Comments Are More Powerful Than You Think: Building Custom Validation Grammars with HtmlAgilityPack Published on October 1, 2025 in 20 minutes to read We were getting ready to redesign and simplify phobos.petabridge.com - our Akka.NET observability platform documentation site. The plan was to remove a bunch of old pages, restructure the information architecture, and redirect everything properly so we wouldn’t break any inbound links from Google, Stack Overflow, or the blog posts...
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So Microsoft Deleted Some of Our Packages From NuGet.org Without Notice Published on July 11, 2025 in 7 minutes to read “Software supply chain management” is one of those terms that sounds like Venture Capital-funded vendor marketing bullshit right up until it isn’t. In 2016 the npm left-pad incident taught many of us in the software industry the importance of: The fragility of depending directly on central package management systems, such as npm or nuget.org, hence why artifact proxying...