Hi,
I am Erik
Software developer with nearly two decades of experience. Writing code for a living, writing about code for learning.
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Recent writing
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May 7 2026
What's new in Aspire 13.3
Aspire 13.3 lands WithBrowserLogs — a tracked Chromium browser as a child resource, streaming console and network events into the same dashboard timeline as your backend traces, with first-party commands for opening it, configuring it, and capturing screenshots. More on the rest of 13.3 to follow in upcoming parts.
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May 2 2026
Azure Functions Consumption on Linux is going away, what are the migration paths?
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?
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Apr 21 2026
Run Gemma 4 with Ollama locally, and keep the Aspire LLM Insights (sparkles and all)
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.