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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🙏 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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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Brian Chavez retweeted
BOGUS is the BEST CREATION EVERR!! <3 @bchavez
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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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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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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16 Apr 2024
Thank you @fboucheros, @sandertenbrinke, and @mairacw for the opportunity to speak about Bogus on the Microsoft On .NET Live show. 🙏 #dotnet
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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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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 nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
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Brian Chavez retweeted
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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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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