Patrik Svensson (@[email protected])
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I'm not here anymore. Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: https://t.co/XkcxN3Om0w
Joined August 2007
I'm not here anymore. I feel that I can no longer contribute to this place and everything it has come to stand for. If you want to stay in contact, you can follow me on the places listed below. Mastodon: @patriksvensson@mstdn.social.Bluesky:
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I'm sorry, but I don't get people who blame Windows for Crowdstrike shenanigans. When a third party writes bad code that runs in kernel mode, how is that a Windows issue?.
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What a fucking Rube Goldberg machine modern web development is. I cannot say this enough; this should not be the normal.
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I've added support for indeterminate progress bars in Spectre.Console. The pulse animation is ported from 'Rich' which I think looks really good!
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The best programmer I know of doesn't interact. He's not replying on Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok. He doesn't have a blog. No webpage. Still, he's building great software every day. Look beyond the bubble.
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My bank is a house owner now! Big congratulations to my bank! 🏠
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I've just published Errata, a library that makes it easy to create and display diagnostics of different kinds. 🎉. It's still in early preview, but take it for a spin if you dare, and if you like it, give it a star!.
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Behold the beauty of @htmx_org: . The following snippet will fetch the HTML from the endpoint and replace everything within the element "table" with the result. Tada! A paging component that doesn't need to update the whole page, and I don't have to write yucky javascript.
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Xbox -> Xbox 360 -> Xbox One -> Xbox Series X. NET Framework -> .NET Core -> .NET. Microsoft needs to fire all the people responsible for naming things and start over.
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My car was a bit slow, so I removed about 20% of the stuff slowing it down (windshield, rearview mirrors, brakes). I know a thing or two about cars. .
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During my 11 years at Twitter as CTO, I've never heard anything as outrageous as this!.
I literally was the Head of Strategy at Twitter. Not even kidding. Anyone who followed me last year knows this is true - @elonmusk can verify.
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My daughter woke up this morning, hugged me while I was sleeping and said "love" 😭. It might not be a big thing for most parents but my daughter is autistic and has a speech disorder.
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@GNCordova @devnetsecops The United States? They have a long history of incarcerating children.
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A not so hot take: There is a 99.9% chance you don't need microservices or Kubernetes 🙂.
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I'm doing some prototyping tonight with Spectre.Console, inspired by Ariadne and CodeSpan. Would something like this be useful in .NET applications?
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Why is auth in ASPNET Core such a horrible experience? I'm 10 seconds away from creating a user table and just storing the state in a session.
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Please, please, please, submit a minimal reproducible example with your bug reports for open-source software. When you don't, it steals a lot of time from the maintainers that could be used towards something more constructive than playing detective.
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Other than null, inheritance was probably the next billion-dollar mistake made in programming.
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Updated my HTMX dashboard so it will show if it loses connection with the server. So easy 😍
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Would anyone be interested if I distributed a NuGet package with a dashboard like this (showing registered Core health checks) and some other things for visualizing running tasks?
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I've noticed that a lot of .NET devs doesn't seem to care about compiler warnings. At almost every client I've been at, there has been anything from 15 to 300 warnings when compiling the "main" project. Just me having bad luck, or have you noticed this as well? Why is that?.
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I accidentally wrote *wank-wank* instead of *wink-wink* in an email today, and now I'm contemplating moving to a cave. How is your day going?.
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I just noticed that Spectre.Console has passed 5000 stars on @github. I know, I know, it's a vanity metric. But a fun vanity metric!
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I just found this wonderful extension to VSCode.
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Sometimes I don't "get" the .NET community. There was a question today from one of the PMs on the .NET team about additions/improvements to the core libraries, and people straight up asked them to build things like "PDF library", "SQLite for .NET", and "Polly by Microsoft".
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I have this crazy idea that I want to write a Mastodon server in C# or Rust. I'm pretty good with following through stupid ideas (just check my GitHub!), but question is if this idea is so bonkers that I should skip it.
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Version 0.48 of Spectre.Console has been released! 🎉.
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Technology advances so fast that I’m not even sure about what is true or not anymore. .
Germany: A nanobot picks up a sperm by the tail and inseminates an egg with it | Inst for Integrative Nanosciences
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Today, I'm leaving my job as a programmer to focus 100% on web3 and blockchain research. As part of this decision, Spectre.Console will now pivot to be a library for minting NFTs.
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Anyone who uses Serilog should read this blog post by @benfosterdev: I'm currently reworking logging in an application at a client, and there is so much good advice in this article that I cannot recommend it enough.
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What an incredible honor. I'm humbled, and I don't know what to say.
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I want to publicly thank every single person on the .NET team for creating a fantastic, and CONSISTENT API. After working in Java/Kotlin the last month I have a completely new appreciation for the hard work. .
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I wonder how disconnected from reality you are if you suggest someone use LaTeX instead of Word for writing documents and letters. .
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I really dislike dependency injection.
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Having a child with special needs is time-consuming, and I think I got a sign tonight that I should stop spending time on open source. Been stretching myself thin between my child's needs, open source, and my regular job the last couple of years. Now might be a good time to stop.
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The only correct date format is of course YYYY-MM-DD.
Programmers, which date format do you use?. ⚪️ DDMMYYYY.🔴 MMDDYYYY
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After being developed for a long time in my spare time and serving as a learning project for me, I've made Ghostly open-source. 🎈🎉. Ghostly is a @github notification client for Windows 10/11 that works offline. #oss #dotnet #uwp #Windows10 #Windows11
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Some things I would want:. * Discriminated unions (pleeeeease).* WASM compiler target.* Extension properties.* a proper terminal abstraction.* Improve on source package experience.* A sane alternative/replacement to .sln files.
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Quiz time: Did this happen in production 10 minutes ago?
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@JackPosobiec What if, instead of cars, we would have these rectangles with wheels attached, powered by some kind of engine running on either gasoline, diesel, or electricity, that would propel us forward? I’m just thinking out loud here.
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Spectre.Console has applied to be part of the .NET Foundation.
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Remember: People who don’t get vaccinated are the same people who would hide a zombie bite.
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I released Jarvis yesterday, and it can be downloaded here: Keep in mind that this is the first release and might contain bugs and/or performance problems since it's only been tested on two different computers, but together we can make it awesome! 😀
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I've released version 0.27.0 of Spectre.Console, which should be available on NuGet shortly. 🎉. In this version, I've added support for table footers, table alignment, and table captions. There is also a new widget to render horizontal rules.
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I've released version 0.4 of Errata 🎉.New in this version is support for label priorities.
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Starting February 9, we will no longer support free access to the Twitter API, both v2 and v1.1. A paid basic tier will be available instead 🧵.
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I know that many people have been asking for live update of widgets in Spectre.Console, so we've been working on adding support for that. It turned out pretty nice, if I may say so myself.
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This comment by the System.CommandLine team made me very happy to read 💖
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We've released version 0.42 of Spectre.Console! 🎉.
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I've released 1.3.1 of "dotnet example". Now with better support for F#! 🎉.
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I've just released version 0.37 of Spectre.Console!.New in this version is selection prompts, a tree widget, and a lot of bug fixes. * Tree API: . * Single selection prompt: * Multi-selection prompt:
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I hate kubectl so much that I wrote a small CLI wrapper that lets me omit things like namespaces and pod id:s and instead leverage Spectre.Console to let me select them.
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Confession: I have a folder on my computer with screenshots of all the nice things people said about me or my open-source projects. Sometimes, when I'm sad, I look at them and feel a bit better 🥰.
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I am very happy to have been awarded the Microsoft MVP award for the seventh consecutive year!
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Coming soon to Spectre.Console: bar graphs!
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Couldn't sleep, so started adding new text prompts (selection and multiselection) to Spectre.Console. Kind of happy with the result so far, but it requires a bit more work.
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Marriage anniversary today. Six years!
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@SWBmedia How would they control third-party software in-house? Require all code to be sent to them for review?.
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It's 2053, and C# still doesn't have discriminated unions.
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I managed to figure out how to do double buffering in a console, so ported the Rich table "movie" to Spectre.Console to figure out what features are missing. It has come a long way since I started building it!.
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One day I'm going to figure out why some programmers think it's okay to have 800 build warnings, making the terminal look like a christmas tree, but today is not that day.
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🎶 12 nullable references left, 12 nullable references left. Take one down, run a compile, 131 nullable references left. 🎵. fml.
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Turning 40 today and still got no urge to get a Porche and/or divorce 😄.
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And this is the updated (fake) C# compiler error report. Still need some work, for example, collapsing white space and displaying context around lines.
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PSA: It's super easy to stitch together HTMX with JavaScript. The table is 100% rendered on the server.
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Mew has a logo! I know it's a bit overkill, but things like this keep the motivation up for me.
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I spent 16 months building a UWP application because this was supposed to be the way forward, and now they’re like,”lol, migrate to WinUI 3/MAUI”. I can guarantee you that the latest cool UI stuff will be deprecated in 5-10 years. The only viable alternative forward is Win32.
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I need a name for my diagnostics/error reporting library. Any suggestions? Any suggestions are welcome!
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Things like this make me unreasonably happy to read.
Spectre.Console is such a nice library #dotnet.
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Here is a small update on the line editor thing I'm building for Spectre.Console. All updates and rendering are done via VT/ANSI codes. It's far from done, but it's a fun project and something I have wanted myself for a while.
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I've just released version 0.19 of Spectre.Console. Now with support for rendering arbitrary data into columns. 🎉.
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I have a pretty decent PDF "debugger" in place now that lets me inspect every single part of a document. It made my life so much easier so far. #dotnet
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We've just released version 0.46 of Spectre.Console 🎉. There are many new things in this release, such as .NET 7 support, a layout widget, JSON rendering support, a lot of bug fixes, and new documentation. Check it out!.
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An alternative to "Dev Home" is my project "Cupboard", which I started a couple of years ago, and I use it to set up my dev machines. It brings the computer to a desired state using your favorite .NET language, with an API inspired by Puppet et al.
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Spectre.Console 0.47 released! 🎉.
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I'm on the Developer's Day gala and one of the finalists in the "Open Source Contributor of the Year" category. I don't think that I will win, but it's super exciting being here!
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Spectre.Console 0.32 has been released with support for displaying progress for long-running operations. 🎉. Documentation can be found at
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