How big task can you drive with Codex / GPT 5.5? Turns out, quite a big. For a fun experiment I let it port .NET runtime to PowerPC. Why? To learn if I could do a multi-month/year job in weeks in a code base that is well documented and exceptionally well covered in tests. github.com/dotnet/runti...
Ever debugged a .NET memory leak (eg. objects kept alive by registered event handlers)? I released a MCP to allow AI agents to peek into .gcdump files produced by the dotnet-gcdump tool. www.nuget.org/packages/dot...
#RecipeOfTheDay delivers comfort fast by means of Sausages with Beans and Peppers! www.nigella.com/recipes/saus...
Sausages With Beans and Peppers
This recipe uses Italian sausages, and I specify them advisedly; being 100% meat and loosely packed, they cook much faster than the densely-woven, finer-textured English sausage. If you are making thi...
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⚡ SAVE THE DATE for .NET Conf 2025 ⚡ Celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 10 at the biggest .NET virtual event November 11 ‐ 13. Add it to your calendar ➡️ msft.it/63326ss8un
Incredible details on better tuning for garbage collection in .NET 10. maoni0.medium.com/preparing-fo...
Preparing for the .NET 10 GC
In .NET 9 we enabled DATAS by default. But .NET 9 is not an LTS release so for many people they will be getting DATAS for the first time…
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We're introducing free Community editions of all our Accelerate tooling. Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost! github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
Announcing Community Tooling - Free tooling for all · AvaloniaUI Avalonia · Discussion #19379
TL;DR: We're making free Community editions of all our Accelerate tools available to every developer. Starting September 2025, you'll get professional-grade XAML editing, dev tools, and lat...
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Eager to announce I'm a founding member of the new Swift Android Workgroup! I've been hard at work bringing people together and working on a VSCode extension to integrate the development flow.
progress on my #playdate game continues at a surprising pace! for now i've decided to call it 🤖 TOGGLEBOT ⬛⬜ here's one of my favorite levels. i think it shows off the bit-flipping + box-pushing mechanics pretty well
🎉 Big news! We've secured a $3M, three-year sponsorship from @devolutions.net This sponsorship will allow us to speed up development, improve docs & tooling for all the community's benefit! 🚀 Read about it here: github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
David R. Hagen just solved a small mystery that I mentioned 13 years ago in the mouseover text of a comic drhagen.com/blog/the-mis...
The Missing 11th of the Month - David R Hagen
Personal website of David R Hagen, scientific software engineer
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@jenmsft.bsky.social (Sorry for direct ping) Can you recommend some options to escalate some Windows feedback? Paid is ok, we have partner account if needed. We have quite a few of customers where our app started freezing with KB5058499, got dumps, aka.ms/AAwk4fh
I just wasted five minutes and so should you: neal.fun/space-elevat...
Space Elevator
Take a trip to space!
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Windows Advanced settings is here! We restructured the For Developers page and added new features such as File Explorer with version control 🚀 Easily view your Git information directly in columns within File Explorer! 🔥
I know of a handful of accessibility specialists who were impacted by yesterday’s RIF at Microsoft. If you’re looking for amazing accessibility talent (PMs and Engineering Managers), please reach out.
We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works great except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. www.memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-p...
$20,000 rav1d AV1 Decoder Performance Bounty
In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2...
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hey #dotnet peeps, blocking detection on async code is live in the @sentry.io SDK for .NET You can see an example here: sandbox.sentry.io/issues/65547... Thanks Ben Adams for the core bits used under the hood.
🎉 Exciting news! Microsoft.Testing.Platform is now available across Expecto, MSTest, NUnit, TUnit, and xUnit.net! A modular, extensible test platform for any .NET project—whether in CI/CD, CLI, VS, or VS Code. Check it out: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/mtp-a... #dotnet #testing #unittesting
Finally! Grats! datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9700/
RFC 9700: Best Current Practice for OAuth 2.0 Security
This document describes best current security practice for OAuth 2.0. It updates and extends the threat model and security advice given in RFCs 6749, 6750, and 6819 to incorporate practical experience...
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Azure Trusted Signing is now available for individuals techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microso...
Trusted Signing is now open for individual developers to sign up in Public Preview! | Microsoft Community Hub
Exciting news for developers! Individual developers can now sign their apps with Trusted Signing.
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1/3 New version of sizoscope, my tool to analyze size of .NET native AOT executables, is out! It can now show you sizes of some of the blobs within the executable just to give a more complete picture.
have you tried the $nuget search in the binlog viewer? github.com/KirillOsenko...
First draft is out Fiddler - Mistakes and Happy Accidents textslashplain.com/2024/11/24/f...
Fiddler – My Mistakes
On a flight back from Redmond last week, I finally read Linus Torvalds’ 2002 memoir “Just For Fun.” I really enjoyed its picture of Linux (and Torvalds) early in its success, with…
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If you're into low level .NET, you should give @xoofx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy a follow!
I'm playing with the new Ultra profiler by Alexandre Mutel and I'm blown away. It's incredible. It's so powerful and showing me managed, native, JIT, GC, allocations, everything. It feels like I have a new superpower. If you're a .NET developer, you have to check this out: github.com/xoofx/ultra
GitHub - xoofx/ultra: An advanced profiler for .NET Applications on Windows
An advanced profiler for .NET Applications on Windows - xoofx/ultra
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Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱 I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)
Seems like there's renewed effort on CoreCLR R2R+interpreter on iOS.
