It has been a genuine pleasure watching Jody Donetti run laps around me with the FusionCache / HybridCache stuff - amazing how much agility you get when you aren't tied into SDK release cadence, etc - especially features I'll need until at least net10 because of API changes;

🎉 New AsyncAwaitBestPracties v10.0.0 🎉 ✅ Add Support for .NET 10 The async/await library you know and love, now compiled and optimized for .NET 10 github.com/thecodetravele…

The future of System.Linq.Async now that net10 is out: endjin.com/blog/2025/11/i…

Nice Nano Banana Pro prompt for weather app: CITY=Prague,Czechia Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of [CITY], featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft, refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle,

🚨 There's an AD in my SQL Server Management Studio

Vienna during Christmas is simply unmatched. ✨ From the giant chandeliers on Graben to the cozy elegance of Palais Ferstel, the city feels like a living fairytale at night. 🇦🇹❄️ #Vienna #Wien #ChristmasInVienna #Austria #Travel #CityLights #iphone #promax

Ouch #Starlink #SpaceX

My biggest worries about coding with AI: 1. Beginners not actually learning 2. Atrophy of skills I’m seeing #1 happen and I don’t have a good answer yet. Leveling up as an engineer requires grinding and it’s not always fun. If AI can solve most of the problems for you, when

Claude 4.5 Opus is so much better than 5.2

Event-driven architecture with 200ms message delays for synchronous operations isn't modern design. It's distributed monolith with extra latency.

And here is the video where I cover this in more details: youtu.be/Ysg85IR6rMc?si…

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/mic…

Apple TV’s hit rate is insane Virtually every show is fantastic It is what HBO used to be and arguably even better given the low volume My only complaint is they take too long to release new seasons of really great shows

Every job invented in the 20th Century is threatened by AI.

So it's been a while, but TurboMqtt (fastest MQTT library in .NET) v1.0.0-beta1 is now out - MQTT 5.0 support - MQTT 3.1.1 bugs addressed - TLS support - OTEL Does about 310k msg/s round trip over a single connection at QoS 0 on the VM I used for benchies. YMMV

past several months “analyzing feedback” instead of fixing it, this is how enterprise works btw

I've built a full LLM inference engine in C#/.NET 10. From scratch. Not a wrapper - native GGUF loading, BPE tokenizer, attention, KV-cache, SIMD-vectorized CPU kernels, CUDA GPU backend, OpenAI-compatible API. Solo dev, ~2 months, AI-assisted (not vibe-coded!). First preview is