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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

also continuous testing tab is continually showing in the beta. no many how many times i close it

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I built an alternative to Microsoft.Sbom.Targets github.com/SimonCropp/S...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A blazor wasm component for rendering docx in a browser support text selection for copy. and printing github.com/Papyrine/Mor...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

BuildMonitor is coming along nicely github.com/SimonCropp/B...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I built a build monitor github.com/SimonCropp/B... OS: Windows. Mac. Linux. smoke testing on Linux is a todo Providers: AppVeyor, DevOps, Bitbucket, GH Actions, GitLab CI, GoCD, Jenkins, Octopus, TeamCity, Travis Only smoke tested on AppVeyor, GH Actions, Octopus so far

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Polyfill now supports using c#15 Closed hierarchies on older runtimes github.com/SimonCropp/P... #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Polyfill now supports using c#15 union types on older runtimes github.com/SimonCropp/P... #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I built a GraphQl explorer using Blazor github.com/SimonCropp/B... my fav feature is being able to copy a query request from my website, and paste it into the graphql explorer github.com/SimonCropp/B... #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Scry now has a sidcar pane to help with debuggin github.com/Papyrine/Scr...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Verify now supports inline snapshots github.com/VerifyTests/...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I wrapped the Rust krilla lib in a .net for pdf reading and writing Also added a html to pdf extension And it is WASM friendly: papyrine.github.io/krillaNet/

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

krillaNet github.com/Papyrine/kri... A .NET wrapper over krilla, the Rust PDF-writing library that backs typst. Creates PDF documents: pages, vector paths, gradients, text, and images, and converts HTML to PDF through the companion Krilla.Html package. #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Inline snapshots for Verify github.com/VerifyTests/... ie the snapshot contents is embedded inside the c#/f# test method still beta, but IMO it greatly improves the usability by keeping the snapshot result closer to the code that produces it.

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Morph now has a demo Blazor site that does rendering of docx into png/pdf/txt/html/md All client side in the browser morph.papyrine.org here is an example render from docx (left as png for preview) to pdf (right) #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

GeoConvert blazor wasm app now has a proper url geoconvert.papyrine.org

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

thoughts on my attempt in .net at a fair world map projection ? papyrine.github.io/GeoConvert/ its a Goode Homolosine but with a cutout to avoid slicing Greenland #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

i built a blazor wasm mermaid renderer papyrine.github.io/Naiad/

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

GeoConvert now has more export options papyrine.github.io/GeoConvert/

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

does anyone know anybody at GitHub/microsoft that can help with a stuck Sponsors profile?

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

some perf measurements of moving from imagesharp v3 to v4

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

github is getting more buggy recently. eg i have has a pull request created 10 minutes ago. and still showing "0 Open". but the tab is correct "Pull Requests 1"

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

new version of DbToMermaid github.com/SimonCropp/D...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Dell. u should not need 13 processes to interact with a monitor anyone i know who knows anyone working at dell?

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

pretty happy i got package shading working so i can use the newest library versions and not have assembly conflicts in msbuild

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

doing my part to train the AIs committers.top/australia.html

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

my tv remote has so many of those buttons. i assume tv manufacturers get paid to add them

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Holiday project. trying to build a .net lib to render docx to png. current status: left is from word, right is from my lib.

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i build a word diff launcher to help me snapshot test docx files github.com/SimonCropp/M...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

i updated my dell software. and in their continued enshitification, they have added a tray icon, with no hover, no right, left, or double click actions. i had to work out what it was by the icon

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

do i know any devs who work at Dell? if so can we have a chat about how many processes should be required just to control a monitors KVM

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Looks like a compiler bug to me here is a clean project with no polyfill and targeting netstandard2. AFAIK there is no way for polyfill to fix that

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

can anyone do better than 22 dotnets installed?

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

new community extension to Verify that produces the memory structure for types github.com/Yellow-Dog-M... #dotnet

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

LOL github.com/NuGet/Home/d... github.com/AzureAD/micr...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

IMO Dells monitor management software is over-engineered 16 processes? Really

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

how do i remove copilot and teams from the share dialog in windows?

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

does anyone know if this behavior in c#14 extension methods is a bug or by design github.com/dotnet/rosly...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

looks like a productive weekend btw what is this?

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

heads up: breaking change in the recent patch release of 8 and 9 of aspnetcore github.com/dotnet/core/...

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

well done. but IMO is seems weird to have ads on your blog when u r using it as a way of announcing releases for a paid product

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

MarkdownSnippets github.com/SimonCropp/M... MarkdownSnippets is a tool extract snippets from code files and merges them into markdown documents. All the above use its features to drastically reduce the effort in maintaining docs.

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simoncropp.bsky.social @simoncropp.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

PandocNet CLI arguments github.com/SimonCropp/P... PandocNet is a lib to provide a .net api to talk to Pandoc. It uses CliWrap to provides strong typed options for document formats. The input and output docs are generated by using the type definitions in the assembly.

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