Damian Hickey @damian.social · 30/09/2026Did a port of browser-tamer to WinUI3 for the craic. Just the main features. Yeah AI assisted blah blah. Been using for months, been working great. damianh.github.io/browser-wrangler/ . Use it, don't use it, idgaf.damianh.github.ioBrowser WranglerBrowser Wrangler routes links to the right browser and profile on Windows. 110
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 25/09/2026Someone took the time to check my usersername name and cross reference it. In 30 within minutes from posting. Since then I've probably sent millions their way. Which is cool and all. However, seems they've lost that customer centricity. 000
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 25/09/2026Thirty minutes later I get an email saying I'm getting a refund and to monitor better. Didn't ask or expect that. But still that was brilliant ustomer service. 140
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 25/09/2026A wee story, back in the early days when aws was S3 and EC2 and pretty much nothing else. I left a VM running for a month. 400 dollars. My fault totally. I posted on twitter (back in the day) something along the lines of "nothing like a 400 dollar bill to remind you of a running VM." 100
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 16/09/2026Finally met the venrable @nblumhardt.com after many years of (intermittant) online interaction. 🫡 230
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 13/08/2026The nuget org admin / management UI is seriously under-invested. 020
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 12/08/2026github.com/dotnet/cshar...github.comExploration: Shapes and Extensions · dotnet csharplang · Discussion #164Shapes and Extensions This is essentially a merger of two other proposals: Extension everything, which allows types to be extended with most kinds of members in the manner of extension methods, and... 021
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 12/08/2026Still waiting for structural typing or shapes or whatever its called now. 210
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 08/08/2026Sorry should be open now! (Didn't realise it was closed) Was traveling; just back. 000
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 03/08/2026when are you over? lots of things to see and do. More familiar with The Hague and Leiden. Not familiar with Rotterdam. DM me details :) 100
Reposted by Damian HickeyJoe DeCock @jmdc.dev · 30/07/2026Hey, I wrote a thing - check it out! Some good stuff in the latest version of MCP for security 001
Reposted by Damian HickeyStuart Lang @stu.dev · 11/07/2026Today I'm releasing AotAnywhere, a package which enables cross platform publishing support for dotnet NativeAOT. Before this package you had to use multiple different runners, with AotAnywhere you can publish for all targets from any single host. This is continuing the great work of @migeel.sk 4198
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 07/07/2026I think often these sorts of requirements happen when the customer/domain/business is very 'national' . e.g. government, legal etc. I've seen that in NL. 010
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 29/06/2026My security nose is twitching on this. install.ps1 suppprt was removed for a reason... 110
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 31/05/2026He should be retiring at the club. All the fans want that. 010
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 31/05/2026And if you are passing through AMS again and have a few hours I recommend popping to Leiden. Happy to pop up from The Hague. 010
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 31/05/2026Not much better for me - 4 hrs trains delays compounded (should havebflown ha). Great to catch up again. 110
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 26/05/2026yeah we had to, there is no v8 or HybridCache even though it supports net8.0 (and netstandard2.0, net462 etc). 100
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 26/05/2026Not saying it's pretty but they work. MS.Ext don't follow semver either oc. Made this call in a library recently when we wanted to take a dependency HybridCache. Whole things needs a fresh look imo. 100
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 26/05/2026The MS.Ext packages (most of or all) are not tied to a specific SDK / runtime otherwise the nuget package for a given version would declare a single TFM. This has been the case for some time. 100
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 17/05/2026Pretty sure F1 would be far more interesting with a Dacia or two ploddin' around the circuits. 120
Reposted by Damian HickeyDuende Software @duendesoftware.com · 22/04/2026We've published guidance on the high-severity #aspnetcore Data Protection vulnerability, CVE-2026-40372 (Elevation of Privilege) Read our guide to: * Determine if your applications are affected * Get mitigation steps 👉️ duende.link/twe5wp #dotnetduende.linkUpdate Guidance for CVE-2026-40372 - ASP.NET Data ProtectionGuidance on the high-severity CVE-2026-40372 vulnerability in Microsoft.AspNetCore.DataProtection. Learn how attackers can use it, check if your application is affected, and find the critical steps… 024
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 21/04/2026playwright on .net is a tire fire github.com/microsoft/pl...github.com[Feature] More intuitive setup and installation of Playwright · Issue #2286 · microsoft/playwright-dotnetI'm a fan of PowerShell, but I think having to add Microsoft.Playwright.NUnit or a similar package, then build your project, then execute a PowerShell script that you can find in the bin/something.... 110
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 06/04/2026So now got to waste time entertaining them otherwise I'd just mark their comms as beg-bounty spam. 000
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 06/04/2026...OAuth flows used, no proof of concept, using incorrect contact channel vs what is publicly published. The annoying thing is that they can raise a CVEs if not responded to which sets customer GRC sbom systems due to their mis-labelling. 101
Damian Hickey @damian.social · 06/04/2026Recevied multiple spurious "vulnerability" reports from the crowd at @vuldb.com . Incorrect product ( what is Duende IdentityServer 4 ??) , no mentions of specific nuget package IDs, no mention of versions, no supply of system under test configuration, no mention of which... 100