The startup time on the new Visual Studio 2026 preview is really impressive. Even for a very large 100+ project solution, it opens in just a few seconds.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Gorgeous day in war ravaged Redmond, WA/

Liquid Glass finally brings back the joy that I missed all these years.

omg I sent in my logs and they (@jb.evain.net) figured out the bug. Searching in the solution explorer search bar (which I do a lot) leaves a listener dangling each time, slowing down the show all files button more and more with each search. Love a team that can actually figure out their bugs. <3

Foaming at the mouth in RFK Jr

My kids were so bad at sleeping when they were infants that one of my favorite thing was when they got vaccinated, we’d give them some Tylenol and we knew we had a few hours of sleep ahead of us.

Nico: on peut prendre un abonnement à Claude? Carla: on a déjà un Claude à la maison Le Claude Guéant à la maison:

Un remake français low-cost de Prison Break où Claude Guéant doit tenir la poche d’un caïd dans la cour.

I'd rather eat a whole sea urchin than put on Meta glasses.

Go JB.

I've watched a video of a guy being operated on his brain while playing the guitar. I have no musical talent so I've been wondering what I should suggest I do if I had to undergo that procedure: “I can type dialogs from Back to the Future in French without looking at the keyboard?”

They did retain the pond of the old Microsoft campus. Word is the big shiny Koi fish holds the secrets to Windows NT.

Happy to report that my mind has adapted to the Liquid Glass.

Woke up to my myriad of Apple devices updated to Liquid Glass. Not feeling completely in love at the moment.

September is my least favorite month because of the length of its name there’s no space between the month and the day on my oven.

J’aime bien “have a good one” comme formule de politesse générique et paresseuse. Maintenant en français je vais juste utiliser “passe une bonne” et en rester là.

Welcome to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... I haven't posted much for a while as I've been heads down working with the Visual Studio team to deliver all the performance and other goodness in this one.

We’ve been building and dogfooding VS 2026 for months, please give it a try. I love it, it my experience it’s the fastest and the most visually appealing VS version ever.

It took me 3 tries to get into Red Dead Redemption 2. For all its flaws, it’s such an incredible game. Hard to believe it’s 7 years old at this point.

"Ask him the Sanskrit word for war, and what its translation is."

LinkedIn is unhinged

Do we have any friends at Valve? I have developer experience/Visual Studio question for them.

every morning

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

Error: Failed to acquire earth.

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Small roads. Grumpy hobbits also.

Two weeks in France. Good food. Scenic views. But I feel like Frodo getting back to the Shire after his trip to Mordor, this is nice but I’m out of place.

La nature est formidable.

I walk miles and miles of corridors. Sometimes a bus takes me to another terminal. Sometimes a train. I go through security each time. Agents yell at me to go faster. My wallet falls on the ground. I lose my passport. There’s one immigration officer in a booth for the entire airport.

I’m at the pearly gates and to pay for my sins I’m being sent back to CDG.

In honor of the Andor trailer out today, I today repost my greatest online achievement: The Andor Characters as Dril Tweets series. I'm going to put them out as I get spare time over the next couple days, as I'm going to put alt text on them too. Starting with the man himself CASSIAN ANDOR

I miss being able to hack all day long, get a coffee at 10pm, burn the midnight oil, sleep a couple hours and get back to it. I’d likely die in the first week nowadays.

I was reading this (fantastic) report from a GSoC student about building a gcc based rustc backend: fractalfir.github.io/generated_ht... and then it downed on me that the first edition of the Summer of Code that I was lucky to participate in was 20 years ago. Wow.

Me: I’d like to travel to take a break from work. AirFrance: please work.

«Quelque part plus tard, il n'y a plus rien. Plus de matin, plus de soir, juste une pluie de morceaux du monde qui tombe sans bruit sur un désert de ruines.»

That too

And that

We find the weirdest bugs sometimes. This one originates in using PathMap to generate .pdb files with relative paths: github.com/dotnet/rosly...

Fuck this

Nature finds a way.

A petition to rename Int and Bool to int and bool in Swift.

I suppose I should sometimes repost about what Asset Cooker is, I'm sure many people don't know!

If Unreal can switch to Y up, America can switch to the metric system.

new console day??? a rare treat

Ran into the situation again where updating VS broke incremental builds, because a different compiler version is now being stamped into the embedded PDB, invalidating all caches and resulting in different PE file bytes from identical sources. Glad I invested in the fancy PE parser and differ!