Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

sigh. Thank you for fighting the good fight!

#SPLASH folks, check out our OOPSLA talk today at 10:30 on Syntactic Completions with Material Obligations! @dm0ney.bsky.social will discuss how we turn arbitrary text into parsed trees by error correction with a generalization of holes called obligations, turning parsing into structure editing!

PowerShell Universal joins Devolutions — a big step for IT automation.

Flexible orchestration today, deeper integrations with RDM (Avalonia) and Devolutions Gateway for secure just-in-time automation tomorrow.

Read the blog & share your ideas: devo-inc.net/4oifZIb

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PowerShell Universal joins Devolutions ✨

Together with @adamrdriscoll.com, we're building momentum for innovation and creating new exciting integration opportunities 💡

Read more in my latest blog post 👇
blog.devolutions.net/2025/10/powe...

C# 14 in the preview introduces partial constructors and events.

They must include exactly one defining declaration and one implementing declaration.

The implementation declaration of a partial event must include add and remove accessors.

C# 14 in the preview allows the null conditional member access operator on the left-hand side of an assignment.

Previously, you had to check if the customer was null before assigning the order.

In C# 14, the GetCurrentOrder method is not called if the customer is null.

You're right about Polaris. But the trees could be in the shadow because of the moon, not sun. Remember the picture was made at night with long exposure. The direction in which the comet's tail is pointing is the major clue.

Solving the astronomy quiz here was delightful, and not hard. Don't read the tweet text (it contains a mild spoiler), just the picture alone is enough to deduce the answer:

was it taken before sunrise or after sunset?

C# 14 in the preview introduces extension members

There is a new extension keyword that lets you define extension blocks for extension properties, methods, and operators

This means you can group related extension members, enhancing code readability and maintainability

Do you like the new feature?

I couldn’t find a decent syntax highlighting library for .NET — so I built one while working on my AI coding assistant CodePunk.
Say hello to CodePunk.Highlight
🔗 github.com/neil-gilbert...

VelloSharp v0.5.0-alpha.1 is now available, delivering Vello’s high-performance 2D GPU engine to .NET atop the wgpu 3D backend. Integrates cleanly with Avalonia, WPF, and WinForms to modernize rendering pipelines without disruptive rewrites. Details: github.com/wieslawsolte...

yup, that's what I'm thinking. Dropped it off at the dealer, will find out tomorrow.

Fun fun fun

Charles fucking nails the landing with Wiley E.

This was a great read. No idea how to get on top of this, perhaps pulling random people away from keyboards? Who knows!
techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-...

New blog post:
In 2021 I found an invisible memory leak in a tool (VS Code) that I have never used. Impossible? Easy:
randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/f...

I'm so happy for you!!!

Well done @duendesoftware.com!

Excited to announce Avalonia UI's investment in Wilderness Labs

Combining Meadow's IoT platform with Avalonia means .NET across the entire stack.

Read more: avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

We're happy to start sponsoring the Spectre.Console project!

It is a #dotnet library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications by giving you access to standard components you may find in a CLI experience.

Go check it out! duende.link/sp3ctr3

i like a nice higraph

dslab.konkuk.ac.kr/class/2012/1...

where is this screenshot from?

Published v0.4.0

There are breaking changes. The base infrastructure is updated, and the workflow is streamlined.
I don't expect some drastic changes anymore. I think this one will be a good candidate for a stable release.

#dotnet #csharp

github.com/fiseni/NuSeal

Fully revamped the tree view 🌳 in .NET Lab. Now with cursor syncing. Can display syntax, IOperation, and symbol info. #dotnet #csharp #roslyn #dotnetlab