New blog post! 📰 MSBuild randomly failing with file locks? 😤 — turns out worker node reuse is the culprit. Learn how MSBUILDDISABLENODEREUSE fixed years of build nightmares & why GitHub Copilot found the answer Google couldn't! 🔍💻👇 awakecoding.com/posts/disabl...

This doesn't add as much clarity as I hoped it would:

Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand. Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on. Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.

One thing I started noticing recently is that competent engineers give up their credibility due to AI. Twice already highly competent engineers I respect sent a PR that turned out to have very subtle issues. These issues would not be possible if a human understood it.

🚀 Excited to announce SharpIDE - A Modern, Cross-Platform IDE for .NET! I'm thrilled to share my latest open-source project, just in time for .NET 10: SharpIDE, a brand new IDE for .NET, built with .NET and Godot! 🎉 🔗 Check it out on GitHub: github.com/MattParkerDe... ...

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser, powered by Avalonia. After years of community requests, we are delivering: – Linux desktop – WebAssembly – up to 2× faster performance on macOS Try the live demo and register your interest for early access: avaloniaui.net/blog/net-ma...

Hey #dotnet, would you like it if #msbuild (and dotnet build, etc) natively integrated with your CI/CD pipelines for integrated warning/error reporting and such? I've vibe-coded some stuff here that might be interesting to folks: github.com/dotnet/msbui...

We’re teaming up with Google’s Flutter team to bring Impeller to .NET Impeller is Flutters new GPU-optimised renderer, replacing Skia for better performance on mobile and embedded devices. This is what open collaboration looks like 🚀 avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

New in MSBuild Structured Log Viewer: property trail showing reads and writes during evaluation, in order: github.com/KirillOsenko... If you've ever had ordering issues where someone reads your property before you wrote to it, this is the tool for you.

Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

My fellow Washingtonians, 2025 might be an off-cycle election, but we've still got some important measures to weigh in on! Remember to have your ballot in an election drop box by 8:00 pm Tuesday! More resources, including drop box location and in-person registration & ballot casting, at votewa.gov

In Odesa, a man's watch broke. He sees a store with the clock sign, walks in, says my watch is broken. The store owner: but we don't repair watches. Man: what do you do? Store owner: circumcision Man: but why is there a clock sign? Store owner: what would you like me to hang up there instead?

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Folks, The Windows Server Storage team is looking for you input about the ReFS filesystem. We would greatly appreciated if you respond to the survey below. Thanks! forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon...

I'm writing another book, and the first few chapters are available through Manning Early Access now! For 50% off! hubs.la/Q03Q9PGP0 More details, and the story of how I came to write it, are on my blog at ericlippert.com/2025/10/30/i... It feels great to be writing again after a long break. :)

Oh look, a new book by @ericlippert.com! Should be a fabulous adventure indeed. www.manning.com/books/fabulo...

With my small company I sponsor open source packages 📦 💶 for a small amount per month. It’s almost unbelievable but last time I checked I was one of the very few sponsors for FluentValidation. OSS needs more companies chipping in!

🎉 Sponsorships are now live on NuGet.org! 🤝 Easily support your favorite package authors 💰 Maintainers: it’s easy to get visibility for funding needs 🌱 NuGet Community grows stronger together Read the blog post: aka.ms/nuget/sponso... #NuGet #dotnet #OpenSource

A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that. If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened. randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...

ICYMI: Cake now supports file-based apps using "dotnet run" in .NET 10. Big shoutout to @devlead.se for all his hard work! 👏

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!

#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 #PowerSh#PowerShellt#Automation

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

After a short break I'm back with the new video on Dissecting the Code YouTube channel. This time its all about ConfigureAwait, why we ended up having it and how it works under the hood! #dotnet folks, please share! I'll really appreciate it! youtu.be/RZsLA_R8i9s?...

There's something already that's not fully plumbed through but might be useful. If you set the nuget.config config value `updatePackageLastAccessTime` to `true`, then Restore will `touch` the `.nupkg.metadata` file in each package's versioned folder. Then you can iterate through all, deleting olds.

Wayland is becoming the default display protocol on Linux. Avalonia is getting native Wayland support. Embedded comes first. Compositors follow. Existing apps remain safe through XWayland. Explore the challenges: avaloniaui.net/blog/bringi...

So apparently my client has decided that we should (1) start using Cursor, and (2) show up at the office four days a week. After more than 6 years there, I’m thinking this might be my cue to eject. Anyone looking for a coder for a remote gig (or hybrid in Stockholm)?

Me: i’m Autistic Them: Oh you take things literally Me: No that’s kleptomania

How many lines lie on a cubic surface? (The answer is 27.) A statement that’s been known for nearly 180 years has recently gained fresh nuance and relevance. www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-rev...

New blog post! 📰 Visual Studio build logs are useless 😤 — but MSBuild Binary Logs reveal everything VS hides. Learn how to capture .binlog files, expose analyzers & generators slowing you down, and finally fix slow builds! ⚡💻👇 awakecoding.com/posts/msbuil...

I just wrote a Roslyn refactoring! I have to say the Roslyn API is beautiful and I loved the experience. gist.github.com/KirillOsenko...

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...