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Thanks, I have a drift detection workflow which includes the latest previews: github.com/slang25/AotA...

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Yes please, any ideas you have to make this slicker are much welcomed 😀

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I've swapped our multi-runner job at work, and now just have a single runner producing our native cli, and it's working great.

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Thanks, I needed Fable to get me over the line with this 😅 I've been trying to get this matrix green for a while now, and the final big hurdle was how to build for macOS on non-macOS hardware without shipping the SDK (which is prohibited), that's solved now by generating the stubs.

Damian Edwards @damianedwards.com · 30/05/2026

Today 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

Graphic showing all supported environments to build on, and all supported environments the resulting binary can run on.

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New version of `dotnet-outdated` is out with support for C# file-based apps! Thanks to @stu.dev for the quick turnaround ❤️ #dotnet

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David Pine @davidpine.dev · 21/04/2026

I love the #developercommunity, and this is an awesome contribution to @aspire.dev from @stu.dev where he added twoslash to our code blocks. Check it out: aspire.dev/get-started/... Our @typescriptlang.org code is literally looking like an IDE now. 🤓

A TypeScript code block from aspire.dev, showing a tooltip hover over actual code APIs, just like an IDE.

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 21/02/2026

It's currently hosted on Cloudflare Pages, but we could host it in most places as it's static, but these headers are essential (which rules out GH Pages): github.com/slang25/spec...

spectreconsole-playground/src/Spectre.Docs.Playground/wwwroot/_headers at main · slang25/spectreconsole-playground

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 21/02/2026

Hey, sure, I think it's ready. I have also created a library (not pushed to nuget just yet) that enables creating a link with embedded content it (so we can link from docs with runnable examples). The repo is here currently: github.com/slang25/spec...

GitHub - slang25/spectreconsole-playground

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 18/02/2026

This is pretty much the mixed emotions I've been going through recently. Thanks for sharing

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 18/02/2026

Not sure if this link will work, but let's try: spectreconsole-playground.pages.dev#nVbLbuM2FN3r...

spectreconsole-playground.pages.dev

Spectre.Console Playground

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 18/01/2026

Thanks! Do let me know if there are any improvements that can be made or issues with it. The code is over here: github.com/slang25/msbu... It's a static app using .NET WASM on web workers, the web workers bit was the thing that made it viable for larger projects.

GitHub - slang25/msbuild-binlog-perfview

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 18/01/2026

My latest side project, this takes an MSBuild binlog file and transforms it into a Perfetto trace msbuild-binlog-perfview.pages.dev

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 08/01/2026

Maybe you need a comparer comparer

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 05/01/2026

@chethusk.bsky.social We didn't need to wait for the dotnet 10 SDK to get file-based apps after all 🙃

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 27/12/2025

Yeah it's web assembly that compiles assemblies (CIL) and then loads that. I started with xtermjs for the terminal and then switched to libghostty, because you know, it's cool!

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 27/12/2025

@patriksvensson.se I've been hacking around with something locally, just looking to fix out a few kinks and will send a PR

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 26/12/2025

@andrewlock.bsky.social truly is the "Simpsons did it" of tech 😅

Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 23/12/2025

This is awesome, I think I'll be using this a lot cause I love worktrees but always search the commands and find them a little clunky. Random tangent, is the install․sh some kind of template, or something bespoke for this project?

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 22/12/2025

This was a nice touch 😅

Screen grab of the PTY component with a friendly message to say you should use a desktop browser, with the opening message "Whoa there, mobile warrior!"

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 22/12/2025

Ghostty is it for me. I'm using the tip release, which has search. Once 1.3 is out it's going to be an easy recommendation.

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 10/12/2025

@chethusk.bsky.social What happened to your binlog MCP tool out of interest? I think it disappeared from GH

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 02/12/2025

"Levenshteinly close" I'm so stealing that phrase 😅

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 24/11/2025

This is the time of year when everyone "Adds dotnet 10 support", which was already there, but are actually just dropping dotnet 8 support

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 19/11/2025

This was a lot of fun, I always look forward to appearing on this stream. Watch to find out some of the inner workings of the new C# 14 features

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Andrew Lock "Sock" @andrewlock.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Blogged: Companies complaining .NET moves too fast should just pay for post-EOL support andrewlock.net/companies-us... In this post I describe a solution to .NET "releasing too quickly": just pay for support of older versions, such as HeroDevs' Never Ending Support for .NET 6… #dotnet @hero.dev

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Companies complaining .NET moves too fast should just pay for post-EOL support

In this post I describe a solution to .NET "releasing too quickly": just pay for support of older versions, such as HeroDevs' Never Ending Support for .NET 6

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Safia Abdalla @captainsafia.com · 10/11/2025

First: I am really proud of this blog post title. It’s for the girlies (IYKYK). Second: .NET 10 drops tomorrow, so I did a whirlwind tour of the big and small features I worked on this cycle. Third: go read it! #dotnet #aspnetcore 📰 :https://blog.safia.rocks/2025/11/10/aspnetcore-ten/

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And just like that .NET 10 ships tomorrow

A look at key ASP.NET Core features shipping in .NET 10, including: model validation for Minimal APIs, OpenAPI 3.1 support with unified JSON Schema, improved integration testing with top-level…

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Deniz İrgin @denizirgin.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📢LocalStack .NET Aspire Integration just hit its first stable release! 🎉 Highlights: ⚡ Eager service loading support (KUDOS @stu.dev) 🐳 Docker socket support (for Lambda containers) 🐛 Fixed Lambda + SQS "Invalid URL" bug github.com/localstack-d...

GitHub - localstack-dotnet/dotnet-aspire-for-localstack: This repositry contains the integrations with .NET Aspire for LocalStack

This repositry contains the integrations with .NET Aspire for LocalStack - localstack-dotnet/dotnet-aspire-for-localstack

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I'm also thinking about an option that plugs into nuget, there is the concept of a "NuGet Package Download Plugin", which might give another way to "listen" to download events

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To summarize, unused != unneeded Not sure if this is intentional @chethusk.bsky.social

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So with this approach it then needs to redownload the unused packages on the next build, then the following build it will clear them. I can't distinguish between packages that will be downloaded but not used, vs old packages (if that makes sense)

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So what's happening in numbers: * start with no cache * during the build we download 420 package versions * upload that to the cache * same build - restore cache * touch all 420 package metadata with last weeks timestamp * build * only 319 metadata files updated last read time * I delete 101 pkgs

I've been playing with this in CI and am getting some odd results, it seems to be _mostly_ working. Our GHA runners have relatime set on the mount we use, and this also makes things more confusing, so I first reset all f the atimes to 7 days earlier before starting the build

Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 30/09/2025

the http-cache is only valid up to 30 mins, so isn't much use in CI scenarios. I think it's just a missing part of the story. I know that @terrajobst.net played around with the idea of "dotnet nuget gc" which is sort of what's needed here: github.com/terrajobst/d...

GitHub - terrajobst/dotnet-nuget-gc

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 30/09/2025

The problem is you need to restore the cache into NUGET_PACKAGES, but at the end of it you want to say "now copy the contents of NUGET_PACKAGES, but _only_ the packages that were actually used" @chethusk.bsky.social this should be a thing

Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 30/09/2025

It happens when you cache the global package cache directory as at the end of each build, there's no eviction of older package versions that weren't used. It's an oversight IMO

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Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 19/09/2025

Looks interesting, my goto for this these days is SpreadCheetah for performance reasons: github.com/sveinungf/sp... We used ClosedXML for some finance domain stuff, and for large spreadsheets these libraries cannot handle large-ish spreadsheets (hundreds of thousands of rows)

GitHub - sveinungf/spreadcheetah: SpreadCheetah is a high-performance .NET library for generating spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel XLSX) files.

SpreadCheetah is a high-performance .NET library for generating spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel XLSX) files. - sveinungf/spreadcheetah

Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 18/09/2025

It passes in xunit v3, and fails in xunit v2 (and is non-deterministic, but in practice always fails)

Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 18/09/2025

I will post the full explanation tomorrow, but the answer is sort of all four of the options 😅 I'm not kidding

Stuart Lang @stu.dev · 17/09/2025

Your code quiz for today 📝 Does the following xUnit test: 1. Always passes 2. Always fails 3. Sometimes passes/fails 4. More information needed #dotnet