Founder at Bit Armory Inc. GitHub star collector refactoring bad code, shipping tasty bits, and coding to great beats.
Joined June 2008
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12 Jul 2024
Late posting; but I received the Microsoft MVP award for 2024-'25 for my public open-source work. Thank you @Microsoft and @MVPAward #mvpbuzz
Largest impact project for nomination:
* Bogus (79 million downloads) nuget.org/packages/Bogus/
* MVP Profile: lnkd.in/g2p3Xj_U
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Feb 21
🙏 Recently found out and humbled. A huge and big thank you to the .NET community for making Bogus rank in the top 100 nuget packages in the world. ♥️ nuget.org/stats/packages
#dotnet #csharp #nuget
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26 Sep 2025
🎉Released Bogus v35.6.4:
* PR 619: Fixed Image.PlaceholderUrl; uses placehold.co now.
* Several general C# code improvements by
@SimonCropp🙏
... see HISTORY_md for details.
✅3728 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
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Brian Chavez retweeted
I love seeing the combination of @bchavez 's #Bogus and OpenAPI transformers in this video from .NET Conf!
youtube.com/watch?v=pkQdwbYP…
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2 Sep 2024
🎉Released Bogus v35.6.1:
* PR 560: Ensure Belgian National Numbers have padded checksum.
* Bogus Premium: Fixes C# Roslyn Analyzer detecting read-only properties as missing rules.
✅3658 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
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19 Jul 2024
🎉Released Bogus v35.6.0:
* PR 556: Remove obsolete/non-working LoremPixel image service. `Images.LoremPixelUrl()` is removed.
* PR 557: Added Bogus.Extensions.Belgium extension method: Person.NationalNumber() / Rijksregisternummer #dotnet #csharp nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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28 Apr 2024
🎉Released Bogus v35.5.1:
* PR 538: Fixes Invalid Costa Rica IBAN format.
✅ 3700 unit tests passing CI/CD. #dotnet #csharp
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16 Apr 2024
📸 I was on the Microsoft On .NET Show yesterday talking about Bogus. Here is the link #dotnet: youtube.com/watch?v=KoEOsfrR…
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16 Apr 2024
Thank you @fboucheros, @sandertenbrinke, and @mairacw for the opportunity to speak about Bogus on the Microsoft On .NET Live show. 🙏 #dotnet
16 Apr 2024
I had a blast💥 meeting @sandertenbrinke and @bchavez and learning more about Entity Framework #EF and #Bogus with @mairacw
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9 Mar 2024
🎉Released Bogus v35.5.0: * PR 500: Allows locally set time references for DateTime calculations instead of using global static. See "Deterministic Dates and Times" section in README for more info.
✅3696 unit tests passing CI/CD. #dotnet #csharp nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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2 Mar 2024
🎉Released Bogus v35.4.1:
* PR 529: XML Docs; Add inclusive/exclusive number ranges documentation for Randomizer.
* PR 535: Fix gender-digit for Swedish Personnummer.
✅3579 unit tests pass CI. #dotnet #csharp
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14 Jan 2024
🎉Released Bogus v35.4.0:
Massive update; like 7 PRs merged; all improvements around Govt IDs for Poland (Pesel/Nip/Regon), Sweden (Samordning.), Romania (CNP), Finland (Henkilo.), UK VAT checksum, & US NHTSA VINs
✅3579 unit tests pass CI. #dotnet #csharp
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2 Jan 2024
🎉 Released Bogus v35.3.0:
* PR 496: Improves Denmark CPR number generator with checksum validation. Thanks MunroRaymaker and NielsPilgaard!
✅ 3497 unit tests pass CI. Let me know if I broke anything. #dotnet #csharp
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26 Dec 2023
🎉Released Bogus v35.2.0:
* Issue 497: PR 522 - Better Xamarin AOT compatibility. Renames/removes diacritics from API method names Finland: Henkilötunnus -> Henkilotunnus. Norway: Fødselsnummer -> Fodselsnummer.
✅3415 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
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12 Dec 2023
🎉 Released Bogus v35.0.1:
* PR 513: Update Swedish `sv` locale; first/last names.
* Misc: Migrate to NET 8 SDK and refs.
✅ 3314 unit tests pass CI. Let me know if I broke anything. #dotnet #csharp
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4 Sep 2023
🆕🎉 Open-sourced BitArmory.Turnstile - a small client library for verifying Cloudflare Turnstile captcha challenges. Turnstile is an alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA:
* github.com/BitArmory/Turnsti…
* nuget.org/packages/BitArmory…
#dotnet #csharp #captcha #recaptcha
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Brian Chavez retweeted
24 Jun 2023
Practicing with bogus data is a great way to learn to work with real data.
{ author: @andytechdev } #DEVCommunity #dotNET
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Brian Chavez retweeted
26 Feb 2023
Just released a prototype of a library to create data builders using #Bogus (faker for .NET) in F# 🏗️🧪
#fsharp #faker #dotnet
🔗github.com/lucasteles/FsFake…
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Brian Chavez retweeted
25 Feb 2023
Check out the results, it just feels right.
Visit the project on GitHub, learn more about its capabilities, and don't forget to give it a star ⭐
github.com/bchavezBogus
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