The more I have AI agents write all my code, the more I feel that us devs will be alright (and possibly more in-demand for important stuff) Hard for me to imagine anyone building *reliable* software without an understanding of how to do this (either via experience or study)

"I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues -- be it Dutch, English, American, French, German, or Swahili -- are as damned difficult to make as they would be to use." - Edsger Dijkstra www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...

They were right, you just gotta be in any 2nd tier chinese city

I am excited to announce SharpDbg - a new cross platform, managed .NET debugger, written completely in C#! (No C++ required 💪) ⭐ Star it on GitHub! github.com/MattParkerDe... SharpDbg implements the VS Code Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP), ...

I really like C# and everything the dotnet team has been doing for the last decade - modern dotnet is amazing. These headlines make me really worried, though www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ce...

Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much. Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.

confident ignorance as tribal identity works great until reality selects for people who actually learned how things work

It's really amazing to me, a person born in the 90s, that I have a 13" laptop that has 24 CPU cores that go up to 5.1Ghz and 96GB of ram and it weighs under 3 pounds. So easy to take for granted just how far compute performance has improved. Young me would not believe it

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...

Yearly reminder that: in web browsers and many apps, you can select text inside a link by holding the Alt key.

A group of physicists claim they have proof that true randomness exists. This has implications for encryption protocols and computing, but (if true) would also indicate that the past does not determine the present. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uk7...

Using Linux long enough and you start to unironically believe that GUIs were a mistake.

So many things are impossible only because someone told you they were impossible and you believed them

you’re so close

GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...

looks like the latest build of windows 11 shipped with a broken version of pow() that says (-1)² = -1: github.com/ppy/osu/issu...

the zoomers have rebranded vacation

Good stuff, Windows 11.

watching microsoft engineers fight their own AI as it's allowed to publicly run wild across massive in-production projects is certainly ... something github.com/dotnet/runti...

>Vibe coding is introducing vulnerabilities, that’s why we’re introducing safe vibe coding I’m legit crying wtf lmao

`dotnet run file.cs` is coming: Allows running C# source files with no need for an explicit backing project. We call these file-based programs (as opposed to project-based programs). github.com/dotnet/sdk/b...

🎉 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

you know what I love: web sites. Fewer apps, more web sites.

It’s strange to think that between our parents growing up without household devices, and- skating to where the puck is going- levels of abstraction developing higher and higher, we might be in the only time period where it’s decently common to understand computers

Added a way to diff two assemblies at the byte level. This is what I really needed it for - to debug deterministic builds. I needed to see why is the assembly different even though nothing has changed. In this case it was SourceLink stamping the Git SHA into the embedded pdb.

atompds github.com/PassiveModdi...

Ebitengine in 2024 / 2024 年の Ebitengine English: ebitengine.org/en/blog/2024... Japanese: ebitengine.org/ja/blog/2024...

LLMs are an absolute game changer for information retrieval. The ability to ask follow up questions and iterate/rubber duck makes it 10x more useful than a search engine.

Elon built the worlds largest GPU cluster and grok is still gonna sound like an average Redditor

.NET Blog, dotnet scaffold – Next Generation Project Creation for .NET. #dotnet devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/intro...

Google’s Gemini AI randomly spit out a long unhinged rant at a college student: “This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. … You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please.” Jump to the last message in this transcript.

Hey new Blueskiers? Skeeps? Whatever. Did you know that every profile has an RSS feed, just like Mastodon? Here's mine: Just add /rss to the end of any profile! bsky.app/profile/did:...

The Half Life Alyx booze / liquid / bottle shader which I worked on at the start of the Covid lockdown and got a ridiculous amount of attention

Sometimes the best engineering happens when you’re just tinkering, free from expectations and deadlines.

Work hard, study well, eat and sleep plenty!

they should do a brain study of what happens in your brain when you’re in the middle of a rebase

THEY LOOK SO GOOD

i wonder if diagrams like these might help draw the distinction between ActivityPub (and how Mastodon uses it) and AT Protocol (and how it’s used by Bluesky and atproto apps)? with AP, instance = application + hosting. data gets sent between instances. with AT, data flows *from* hosting *to* apps

I can't stop thinking about this blog post where they replaced Redis with SQLite—and surprisingly, SQLite was faster! What's interesting is that Redis was running locally, SQLite was storing the data on disk. So it was memory (Redis) vs disk (SQLite), but Redis needed to communicate through IPC.

This is a big deal for .NET development blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/10... #dotnet #rider

"Is this Twitter?"

bluesky is the better misskey fork

With Bluesky taking off like this, an atproto based Reddit equivalent is not far away..

macOS is now UNIX-certified www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/m...

A well-written blog post summarizing why Bluesky had to develop ATproto, instead of adopting ActivityPub. Looking forward to the second part!

SDL3 preview release is out now - really impressive work by the whole team. Includes a new cross-platform GPU implementation... can just use 1 library for everything to get a game running and rendering github.com/libsdl-org/S...

I couldn't help myself when reviewing my coworker's PR

Olá bluesky!