The .NET 10 performance blog post has landed A monster of a read again from Stephen Toub ! devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/perform…

Is there a line position? Does hitting Refresh reset my line position?

I just wrote a blog post explaining the new iOS and macOS 26 icon format and how you can use these fancy glassy layered icons in your .NET and MAUI apps. praeclarum.org/2025/09/12/app…

I used Batik for the first time today and it did a great job rendering my SVGs. Far better than ImageMagick and doesn't crash like Inkscape. xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download…

stealing valor

Remember 2006 Linux Compiz effects?

“Moving off of TypeScript, 2.5M lines of code” to C# 🔥 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=452771… Anders rn: #dotnet #typescript

So Frank A. Krueger and I are about to record a listener bag episode of Merge Conflict. What questions do you got?

The iPhone 17 Pro, even with its giant plateau, still can't be set down on a surface without rocking side to side. Would it really kill them to make the lens protrusions symmetric?

E-bike battery died half way through my trip and I had to peddle home like an animal! But at least I got some good photos.

You know you're dealing with some old code when it does a version check for iOS 7 and has fallbacks.

Huge MacOS 26 upgrade: you can force hide menu bar apps now 🧘

Sat down with Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Visual Studio Code and gave it our podcast data in csv. And in under 10 minutes Frank A. Krueger and I had built and deployed an entire website! jamesmontemagno.github.io/podstats/ Code: github.com/jamesmontemagn… WILD! #vscode #githubpodcast

the .NET MAUI survey is open! Tell us how things are going for you and what you'd like to see next from us. surveymonkey.com/r/ZWRPRSS

Just released CrossIntelligence 0.5 with "Big Improvements". I'm using this on a currently shipping app and am progressively adding it to all my apps. Supercharge your .NET apps with free on-device AI! github.com/praeclarum/Cro…

The vibes are still alive! Last week I sat down with Frank A. Krueger to vibe out a new dashboard for Merge Conflict inside Visual Studio Code with Sonnet 4.5 and wrote a blog on how I did it, what prompts, the flow, and more: developer.microsoft.com/blog/complete-… #vscode #githubcopilot

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