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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 5h

Tip for Codex CLI users. Don't enable `/vim`. You'll go from vibe coding to fighting a 50-year-old text editor.

Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 6h

Mixed feelings about Bootstrap 6. Love that it's still evolving. New APIs and components look great. But the default design? It looks like AI slop. I'd expect much better from some of the best designers in the industry. Am I being too harsh?

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 10h

That feeling when you finally remove another JavaScript dependency. This time, we replaced Pickr.js with our own native C# and Blazor color picker. One less dependency. More control. Less JavaScript. Beautiful.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happens a lot lately. With the help of AI I can now try solving those problems much easier.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What is Daybreak and why would I need it? It keeps asking me to set it up, and at this point I'm afraid to ask. Am I missing something everyone else already knows?

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

.NET team has done a great job with this release. Updating Blazorise to .NET 11 was one of the easiest upgrades we've had. Mostly version bumps, a few small changes, and everything just works. Blazorise will be ready for November. github.com/Megabit/Blaz...

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Chore: Add .NET 11 RC1 support by stsrki · Pull Request #6828 · Megabit/Blazorise

Adds .NET 11 alongside existing library targets and upgrades demos, docs, tests, and MAUI to .NET 11. Updates package versions, CI, publish profiles, and applicable language settings to latest.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sometimes the comment section is more entertaining than the actual post. Here’s one from me commenting on a post about The Last of Us. I regret nothing.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'd love to buy a new PC just to make my integration tests run faster. Then I look at the prices of new components. Suddenly, my tests don't seem that slow.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Blazorise 2.3.3 is out. A small custom color request turned into a refactor of our entire color system. Now you can use any CSS color directly with `Color` across components. Plus, many fixes and a completely redesigned website. blazorise.com/news/release...

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Blazorise 2.3.3 - Custom Colors, Scheduler Improvements, and a New Website

Blazorise 2.3.3 adds arbitrary colors across components, improves Scheduler, DataGrid, NumericPicker, and Charts, and introduces a redesigned Blazorise website.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One thing I wish C# had is the `With` statement from Visual Basic. Maybe it would make the code cleaner. Maybe it's just nostalgia. Either way, I still miss it.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This has been on my backlog for years: strongly typed ZIndex utilities. Probably not exciting to most people. But for my strongly typed obsession, it means a lot. `<Div ZIndex="ZIndex.Fixed" />` Small feature. Big satisfaction. github.com/Megabit/Blaz...

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ZIndex: add utility with named layers and numeric values by stsrki · Pull Request #6823 · Megabit/Blazorise

Closes #4823 This adds a strongly typed ZIndex utility for controlling element stacking through the standard utility API, such as <Div ZIndex="ZIndex.Fixed" />. It includes named la...

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GPT-6 Sol is crap compared to GPT-5.6 Sol. Absolute garbage.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That feeling when you find money in a pair of pants you haven't worn in months. Technically it's your money. But somehow it feels like free money.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every side project starts the same way: "This should only take a weekend." That's how they get you.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The biggest difference between junior me and me today: Junior me wanted to prove I could build it. Today I first ask whether we need to build it at all.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Writing the code: 10 minutes. Deciding what to name the thing: 45 minutes. Renaming it three months later anyway: inevitable.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You can spend days trying to make an API perfect. Then a customer uses it in a way you never even considered. That's usually when you find out whether your API is actually good.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The longer I build software, the less impressed I am by how many features a product has. I'm much more impressed when I can't think of anything that needs to be removed.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A feature isn't finished when it works. It's finished when someone who didn't build it can understand how to use it without asking you. That's much harder.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI makes me write code faster. Experience makes me delete half of what AI wants to write. Both are useful.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Open source changes once people depend on your project. That "small breaking change" suddenly isn't small when thousands of applications are using your API. You start thinking very differently about API design.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Being aware of it is also a way forward.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Developers love rewrites because the new code doesn't have any legacy problems. Yet. Give it five years.

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Blazorise @blazorise.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you were expecting the Education platform to be the new thing for a while now, think again! As is our founders way, Mladen is always exploring new ideas, building and thinking out new features and systems. Now he has given our Blazorise platform a completely new look! Check it: blazorise.com

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of the strangest things about building software: Customers will ignore the feature you spent 3 months building... and absolutely love the small thing you added on Friday afternoon.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think every developer should maintain the same product for at least 5 years. Not build it. Maintain it. You start seeing code differently when you know every shortcut you take today might still be waiting for you in 2031.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think developers underestimate how valuable boredom is. Some of my best ideas came when I had nothing urgent to fix. No deadline. No bug. No customer request. Just enough time to think: "What if we built this?" Then somehow I'm three weeks into a new feature.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’ve spent the last few days giving the Blazorise website some much-needed beautification. Cleaner, fresher, and hopefully a lot nicer to browse. Hope you like it. blazorise.com

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Blazorise - Blazor Component Library

Battle-tested since 2018 and actively maintained. Build with 100+ Blazor components, your choice of CSS framework, flexible theming, and commercial support.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The response to the Blazorise Education program has been amazing. Since yesterday, we’ve already received quite a number of requests. Now comes the less exciting part: verifying every application. Free for students, yes. Free for everyone pretending to be one, no.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After working with AI every day, I’m convinced: AI has solved the coding problem. Writing code is no longer the hard part. Knowing what to build, making the right decisions, understanding the problem, and shipping something people want? We’re nowhere close to solving that.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The "AI needs to slow down because it's dangerous" narrative is bullshit. AI costs a fortune, profitability is questionable, and investors might eventually ask if the numbers actually work. "AI is too powerful" sounds better than "AI isn't profitable yet."

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Nothing kills my excitement for a new CSS feature faster than checking Firefox and Safari support. This time it's interpolate-size. I want to write modern CSS, not another workaround.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Blazorise 2.3.2 is out. SVG Charts got 10x+ faster. A large chart that took 3–4 seconds to render in WASM now takes around 200–300ms. Autocomplete with custom content is now much faster too. blazorise.com/news/release...

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Blazorise 2.3.2 - Performance and Stability Improvements

Blazorise 2.3.2 improves Graph performance with large datasets, speeds up Autocomplete keyboard navigation, improves SVG Charts, and fixes DatePicker and FluentUI issues.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

You know that feeling when you've solved all the big problems in a new project? Now you're just gliding through the smaller ones and polishing everything. That's the best part.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Am I allowed to say "things and stuff" this often? At some point, I should probably expand my vocabulary. But... things and stuff.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When your project gets to the point where you need to write your own Flexbox engine... You know things have escalated.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do my eyes still work, or did GitHub just change its UI again? Something looks different. Please tell me I'm not imagining it.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I just wanted to quickly reboot my PC. Visual Studio Installer had other plans. Of course it did.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Codex is down. I guess it's time for a coffee.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Direct2D or SkiaSharp for fast native app rendering? If raw rendering performance is the priority, which one would you choose and why? Looking to hear from people who have actually used both.

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Does anyone know a screen recorder that's as simple and quick to use as Lightshot is for screenshots? Something where I can record, stop, and share in seconds. What are you using?

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm working on something big for Blazorise 3.0. It's going to take time, so I'm thinking of releasing it early and often as previews, alphas, and betas for anyone willing to test it and give feedback. Good idea or should I keep it under wraps until it's more mature?

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Mladen Macanovic @mladenmacanovic.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I did something similar way back but in the end didn't used it much because of the same problem you mentioned. Secrets are still available as part of response.

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