Brian Chavez

@bchavez

Founder at Bit Armory Inc. GitHub star collector refactoring bad code, shipping tasty bits, and coding to great beats.

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github.com/bchavez

Joined June 2008

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Brian Chavez
@bchavez
Jul 12, 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
Brian Chavez
@bchavez
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
Brian Chavez
@bchavez
Sep 26, 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…
placehold.co
Placehold
Placehold is a simple, fast and free image placeholder service to generate SVG, PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP and AVIF placeholder images for your project.
Brian Chavez
@bchavez
Sep 2, 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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Bogus 35.6.1
A simple and sane data generator for populating objects that supports different locales. A delightful port of the famed faker.js and inspired by FluentValidation. Use Bogus to create UIs with fake...
Brian Chavez
@bchavez
Jul 19, 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
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Bogus 35.6.0
A simple and sane data generator for populating objects that supports different locales. A delightful port of the famed faker.js and inspired by FluentValidation. Use Bogus to create UIs with fake...