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Ben Coleman

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Ben Coleman

@BenCodeGeek

Open source ⁞ Azure ⁞ cloud native ⁞ DevOps ⁞ K8s Other geek/tech stuff. Principal engineering manager @Microsoft. Opinions are my own 🐱🍺🎲🏃‍♂️👨‍💻🎹🎶🎮

London, England

Joined September 2016

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Ben Coleman
@BenCodeGeek
Sep 23, 2019
My ARM template visualizer / viewer extension for VS Code is now up on the marketplace. I've done lots of work getting the user experience right. If you do anything with ARM please try it out! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… #azure #vscode
Ben Coleman
@BenCodeGeek
Feb 20
I've waited SIX YEARS for GitHub to fix their workflow_dispatch API github.blog/changelog/2026… Which means I can finally add some much requested features to my GitHub Action github.com/benc-uk/workfl…
Workflow dispatch API now returns run IDs - GitHub Changelog
From github.blog
Ben Coleman
@BenCodeGeek
Dec 15, 2025
I thought I'd give old C# and .NET a spin for some side project idea. Compiling a simple C# hello-world app to WASM takes 82 seconds! When I use Go with the same build target/env the, time is ~2 sec. Sigh I think I'll stick with Go
Ben Coleman
@BenCodeGeek
Sep 20, 2025
Microsoft nerds, help settle a little argument. What shorthand for Azure DevOps do you use?
ADO (Ay Dee Oh)66.7%
AzDO (Azz Doh)33.3%
9 votesFinal results
Ben Coleman
@BenCodeGeek
Aug 30, 2025
Dumb Kubernetes naming decisions #274 - kube-proxy is not actually a proxy, no traffic or data flows through it