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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Every time I see someone post this, I wonder if they think the start menu is legitimately opening a WebView? React Native != React.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Whilst I clearly have a slightly different position on AI than the author of this piece, I absolutely agree that Omarchy and DHH deserve scorn for their "stop talking about politics, now listen to my hate speech" politics. These people will never be your advocates.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 19/09/2026

When something that requires regulation advocates for it's own regulation, you should probably always be suspicious.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Agree with a lot of what @robbowley.net is saying here. Then current news cycle about AI safety and slowdown is bullshit - market fixing disguised as regulation. We need two things: - Models trained on public data legislated into the open - Governance as architecture, not a policy and process

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/09/2026

Small hobby project off the side of a hobby project. I'm doing some game preservation/restoration on GTA1. 32/64 bit support, Mac/Linux port, modernized controls and camera. Here's a native Mac port...

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Every year when I donate to @wikipedia.org it strikes me that it's one of the things I think is most worthy of it. A website that shouldn't exist, doing something that shouldn't work. Truly the vanguard of the web we actually want.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 14/09/2026

Great to see the Build Stuff 2026 agenda live - buildstuff.events/pages/agenda - spent a good chunk of time helping folks pull together a set of diverse topics on both the past and future of software for this one to celebrate it's 15th anniversary. Also, excellent metal bar over the road ;)

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Every time I read any Reddit threads on videogames I empathise with Phil Fish more and more.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 11/09/2026

Had a really fun time speaking at XP Manchester last night. I very rarely do off book / off hand talks, so was a treat to do something a little bit different and kinda "unplugged". Think it's the first time I've ever done a no slide deck at all talk!

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 09/09/2026

I'm foldable Phones 4 lyfe though - looks nice, if you're in the iOS ecosystem that's obviously *the* phone. But... I mean... I have a Galaxy TriFold so I would think that.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 04/09/2026

The internet has been living through the Eternal September since 1993 and every tech shift exposes the then-current generation of users to that feeling that something intrinsically of value, that only existed digitally, has been lost. It's weird to have lived through many of these Septembers.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 04/09/2026

Unfortunately AI empowers the "ideas guys" idiots of the world.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 22/08/2026

The worst metalcore band you know announces a new album. (ATG is being fun as ever)

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/08/2026

How we know David is working on a game

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/08/2026

Warren Spector retiring from game development is a "the Beatles breaking up" kinda moment. What a career.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 18/08/2026

Polly introducing the open-source maintenance fee is excellent. As ever, the people over on r/dotnet have the most embarrassing opinions about it - www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/com... Stop eating our own.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 16/08/2026

This is what it looks like when temu Tony Stark writes fanfic about himself. I appreciate the man probably is incapable of feeling shame but this has gotta be one of the most embarassing things someone has ever done. Imagine being so tragic.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 13/08/2026

Here's a very early preview of AstroSharp for @astro.build What works: - Use Astro for C# static sites! - Everything that runs at build time - Razor support - npm install and just go! What doesn't: - The wasm / client rendering support is jank and not there yet github.com/davidwhitney...

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GitHub - davidwhitney/AstroSharp: A C# and Razor plugin for Astro.dev

A C# and Razor plugin for Astro.dev. Contribute to davidwhitney/AstroSharp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 09/08/2026

Everyone should listen to vianova. If you like many songs in your songs, you won't do better. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uba0...

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VIANOVA - Melanchronic (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

YouTube video by Arising Empire

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 07/08/2026

I cannot stand this Doomerism. "The UK's greenhouse gas emissions have fallen sharply: in 2024 they were 54% lower than in 1990, according to provisional data." Source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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What is net zero and is the UK on track to achieve it?

Reaching net zero carbon emissions worldwide is essential to limit global warming, UN scientists say.

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Optimistic Pessimist @dnky27.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I think Lydon's issue was that he was effectively in McClaren and Westwood's version of the Monkees. Our mistake was attaching thinking the SP's were CRASS or The Clash. Although the unsung political hero of punk is Robert Smith. Still espousing leftist punk values despite his riches and success.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Entirely unrelated, this new Allt album absolutely goes - youtu.be/GKcv_3T9-uc?... Some good solid 0-0-0-0-0-0-0s

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Allt - Ataraxia

YouTube video by Allt

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Making @astro.build work with C# is so damn cool.

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Rob Ashton @typicalcowboybullshit.com · 05/08/2026

" I never found out because the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids." " Michael Gove, calls the columnist “special and brave” and “[a] genius… in the tradition of Swift, Cobbett and Orwell”

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/08/2026

I just really want .NET to be a place we can do actually good modern web dev just like everywhere else.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 05/08/2026

Here's a work-in-progress video of C# support for @astro.build Obviously requires a .NET runtime at build-time, but it's install path is just a basic NPM package, that runs a sidecar server containing Roslyn to support all the same hot-reload / static dev stuff that we love Astro for.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 04/08/2026

So, um, for my next "why not both" trick, we're gonna make C# and Razor work in @astro.build Bringing C# to modern web tech one compatibility move at a time.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 04/08/2026

JsxCore 1.0.0 is out. React and TypeScript views in ASP.NET Core. Write .tsx, return it from a controller. Server-render, hydrate, or both, per response. View model types generated from your C#. dotnet add package JsxCore Docs: github.com/davidwhitney... Packages: www.nuget.org/packages/Jsx...

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

In fact, denialists are doing their organized best to prevent anyone with the interest, expertise and compassion to work on anything that could be human centered from ever doing so with AI. So most people on the left building AI expertise now are those with the social capital to withstand that

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 04/08/2026

Three times today! I'm gonna have so many iPhones lads.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 04/08/2026

New perfect hack for Amazon false order scammers: "there's been an order of an iPhone that will cost you £12361626" Me: "cool, sounds great" Them: "...er... what?... this call is..." Them: *hangs up*

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 03/08/2026

Probably a day or two away from ready for release, but the native React support for ASP.NET Core MVC is here if anyone wants to have a play. I'm just trying to nail a bunch of convenience bits to make it super easy to use for people used to NextJs etc. github.com/davidwhitney...

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GitHub - davidwhitney/JsxCore: Native support for JSX and TSX as a server and client rendered view engine for ASP.NET Core. Bringing the modern web to ASP.NET.

Native support for JSX and TSX as a server and client rendered view engine for ASP.NET Core. Bringing the modern web to ASP.NET. - davidwhitney/JsxCore

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 29/07/2026

Going out of my way to make sure that the integration is as idiomatic as possible.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 28/07/2026

It's no secret that I think JSX is the dominent form of web app markup today. But I've always wanted the framework and language smarts of C# when I've been doing web things - I'm putting together a new library called JsxCore, a JSX + TypeScript View Engine for ASP.NET Core.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 28/07/2026

I'm a fan of the built in lowest common denominator DI in modern .NET, but it drives people to build a bunch of disconnected registrations rather than good constructors and call graphs. You can have both- good ctors and well thought out initilisation, and DI. Wire the latter to the former.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/07/2026

Nostalgia is a prison because it's the feeling of a place you can never be again. Really.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/07/2026

Remember watching The Net in 1995 and imagining a future when you could order Pizza on AOL?

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/07/2026

The internet we love is still here. It's covered in dust and silt and sliding into the substrate of everything. But it'll be here long after Meta and TikTok and Instagram. Built on people.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 24/07/2026

That shift in tone from exploration to being marketed to changed the way the internet *felt*. People call it the algorithm now, but it really is just American Marketing Culture writ large on us all. I want exploration back.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 20/07/2026

Everyone’s convinced that AI has made code disposable. They’ve got it exactly backwards: for the first time, computers actually depend on it. davidwhitney.co.uk/blog/2026/07...

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Computers Finally Care About Code · David Whitney

David Whitney is a technologist, software architect, conference speaker and author based in London. Available for talks and corporate bookings.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 20/07/2026

It's delusional to be so enthralled by a magic trick that you start to believe magic is real.

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 19/07/2026

The latest python version being 3.14 seems like a good pun

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 16/07/2026

So, losing the world cup is like when a band you like breaks up, right? ;)

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God’s Little Ravioli 🏳️‍⚧️ @zoealicempls.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

As is tradition when football doesn’t come home, the team will be fed to this creature. As a pacifist, this brings me no joy to report

that horrifying fruit and veg monster that Tesco advertised with earlier this year

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David Whitney @davidwhitney.co.uk · 15/07/2026

Renewed as my favourite corporate honourific. 7 years an MVP. Thanks to everyone that always comes out to see my talks. Makes me feel less alone in the world.

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