Al Ovchin
@alovchin91.bsky.social
Software engineer.
Rust, Kotlin, C#, .NET, Windows Arm64.
The Catfather. Coffee enthusiast.
Opinions are my own. 🇳🇱
Rust, Kotlin, C#, .NET, Windows Arm64.
The Catfather. Coffee enthusiast.
Opinions are my own. 🇳🇱
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AVX support in Prism finally made its way to Windows [Ge]!
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
Windows on Arm runs more apps and games with new Prism update | Microsoft Community Hub
Today, Windows on Arm devices, such as those powered by the Snapdragon X series processors, are getting a boost thanks to an update to Prism that increases...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:59 AM
AVX support in Prism finally made its way to Windows [Ge]!
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows...
Windows ARM64 is now a Tier 1 platform in Rust! What a gorgeous release! 😍
Rust 1.91.0 has been released! 🌈 🦀
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
This version brings you tier 1 support for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc, warnings for dangling pointers to locals, new methods on AtomicPtr, array::repeat, BTreeMap::extract_if, const TypeId::of, and more!
Check out the announcement: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/10/30/R...
Announcing Rust 1.91.0 | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
blog.rust-lang.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Windows ARM64 is now a Tier 1 platform in Rust! What a gorgeous release! 😍
I just realised that Snapdragon X2 only offers Bluetooth 5.4, while its mobile counterpart has had Bluetooth 6.0 for almost a year now. I wonder why? 🤔
September 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I just realised that Snapdragon X2 only offers Bluetooth 5.4, while its mobile counterpart has had Bluetooth 6.0 for almost a year now. I wonder why? 🤔
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🇪🇺DANGER TO DEMOCRACY. In 2 days, EU governments debate #chatcontrol: a plan to mass-scan all our private messages. 500+ scientists warn it’s technically broken, breaks #encryption & threatens our rights. EU gov'ts must listen to the experts & BLOCK it! […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
September 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🇪🇺DANGER TO DEMOCRACY. In 2 days, EU governments debate #chatcontrol: a plan to mass-scan all our private messages. 500+ scientists warn it’s technically broken, breaks #encryption & threatens our rights. EU gov'ts must listen to the experts & BLOCK it! […]
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The Xbox app for Windows on Arm will soon let you download games from PC Game Pass. Microsoft is also developing new features to enable more games to be played on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/758828/...
The Xbox app for Windows on Arm will soon let you download games
More Arm-compatible games are on the way
www.theverge.com
August 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The Xbox app for Windows on Arm will soon let you download games from PC Game Pass. Microsoft is also developing new features to enable more games to be played on Arm-based Windows 11 PCs. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/758828/...
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We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I
August 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're excited and proud to announce that Digital Foundry is now fully independent, having parted ways amicably with IGN. In this DF Direct Special, we share our thoughts and aspirations for the future of the channel: youtu.be/tl7bIJ2yu4I
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We're introducing free Community editions of all our Accelerate tooling.
Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost!
github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost!
github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
Announcing Community Tooling - Free tooling for all · AvaloniaUI Avalonia · Discussion #19379
TL;DR: We're making free Community editions of all our Accelerate tools available to every developer. Starting September 2025, you'll get professional-grade XAML editing, dev tools, and lat...
github.com
August 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
We're introducing free Community editions of all our Accelerate tooling.
Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost!
github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
Visual Studio Extension, Dev Tools, App Packaging, Visual Designer. Every Avalonia user will get access to our best tooling at no cost!
github.com/AvaloniaUI/...
All I want for 25H2 is AVX2 emulation support
July 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
All I want for 25H2 is AVX2 emulation support
“iOS 26’s Liquid Glass finger-light reflect looks like Windows 10 Fluent Design”
In fact, this effect had first appeared in Windows 7’s taskbar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZc...
Source: www.windowslatest.com/2025/07/05/i...
Video by @tomwarren.co.uk
In fact, this effect had first appeared in Windows 7’s taskbar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZc...
Source: www.windowslatest.com/2025/07/05/i...
Video by @tomwarren.co.uk
Windows 7 Taskbar Colour Hovering
YouTube video by Tom Warren
www.youtube.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
“iOS 26’s Liquid Glass finger-light reflect looks like Windows 10 Fluent Design”
In fact, this effect had first appeared in Windows 7’s taskbar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZc...
Source: www.windowslatest.com/2025/07/05/i...
Video by @tomwarren.co.uk
In fact, this effect had first appeared in Windows 7’s taskbar:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLZc...
Source: www.windowslatest.com/2025/07/05/i...
Video by @tomwarren.co.uk
Even more cool news: VirtualBox 7.2 (currently in beta) introduces support for Windows on ARM!
forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.ph...
forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.ph...
VirtualBox 7.2.0_BETA1 released - virtualbox.org
forums.virtualbox.org
June 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Even more cool news: VirtualBox 7.2 (currently in beta) introduces support for Windows on ARM!
forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.ph...
forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.ph...
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Nvidia’s Arm-powered gaming laptop could launch later this year with Alienware. It's going to be really interesting to see what Nvidia can do to improve the Windows on ARM gaming situation www.theverge.com/news/678000/...
Nvidia’s Arm-powered gaming laptop could launch later this year with Alienware
More competition for Qualcomm.
www.theverge.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Nvidia’s Arm-powered gaming laptop could launch later this year with Alienware. It's going to be really interesting to see what Nvidia can do to improve the Windows on ARM gaming situation www.theverge.com/news/678000/...
Some amazing news: it turns out ARM64 container images of Nano Server and Server Core are available!
I’m not quite sure how to use them though, since @docker.com doesn’t support Hyper-V containers on ARM64 for some reason.
github.com/microsoft/Wi...
mcr.microsoft.com/v2/windows/n...
I’m not quite sure how to use them though, since @docker.com doesn’t support Hyper-V containers on ARM64 for some reason.
github.com/microsoft/Wi...
mcr.microsoft.com/v2/windows/n...
Windows Arm64 support · Issue #586 · microsoft/Windows-Containers
It's May 2025. Copilot+ PCs have been out for almost a year. They're proper developer machines. I have actually been using Windows Arm64 as my daily driver developer OS since the end of 2021, but l...
github.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Some amazing news: it turns out ARM64 container images of Nano Server and Server Core are available!
I’m not quite sure how to use them though, since @docker.com doesn’t support Hyper-V containers on ARM64 for some reason.
github.com/microsoft/Wi...
mcr.microsoft.com/v2/windows/n...
I’m not quite sure how to use them though, since @docker.com doesn’t support Hyper-V containers on ARM64 for some reason.
github.com/microsoft/Wi...
mcr.microsoft.com/v2/windows/n...
AI 2027
A research-backed AI scenario forecast.
ai-2027.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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It’s long past time for you to burn your Twitter account like I did. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
What Are People Still Doing on X?
Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout
www.theatlantic.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It’s long past time for you to burn your Twitter account like I did. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Now in VS Code: JetBrains AI Assistant 🚀🤖
Context-aware AI chat, smart code completion, documentation generation, and multi-file edits with Agentic Mode.
Supports Java, Python, C#, JS, and more.
Join the preview: jb.gg/aia-vscode-b...
Context-aware AI chat, smart code completion, documentation generation, and multi-file edits with Agentic Mode.
Supports Java, Python, C#, JS, and more.
Join the preview: jb.gg/aia-vscode-b...
May 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Now in VS Code: JetBrains AI Assistant 🚀🤖
Context-aware AI chat, smart code completion, documentation generation, and multi-file edits with Agentic Mode.
Supports Java, Python, C#, JS, and more.
Join the preview: jb.gg/aia-vscode-b...
Context-aware AI chat, smart code completion, documentation generation, and multi-file edits with Agentic Mode.
Supports Java, Python, C#, JS, and more.
Join the preview: jb.gg/aia-vscode-b...
This is super niche, but anyhoo 😆
There’s a new release of Visual D extension for Visual Studio, and it comes with ARM64 support! 🎉 rainers.github.io/visuald/visu...
And speaking of D compilers, LDC (the LLVM-based D compiler) has added Windows ARM64 support in 1.140.1: github.com/ldc-develope...
There’s a new release of Visual D extension for Visual Studio, and it comes with ARM64 support! 🎉 rainers.github.io/visuald/visu...
And speaking of D compilers, LDC (the LLVM-based D compiler) has added Windows ARM64 support in 1.140.1: github.com/ldc-develope...
Version History - D Programming Language
D Programming Language
rainers.github.io
May 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is super niche, but anyhoo 😆
There’s a new release of Visual D extension for Visual Studio, and it comes with ARM64 support! 🎉 rainers.github.io/visuald/visu...
And speaking of D compilers, LDC (the LLVM-based D compiler) has added Windows ARM64 support in 1.140.1: github.com/ldc-develope...
There’s a new release of Visual D extension for Visual Studio, and it comes with ARM64 support! 🎉 rainers.github.io/visuald/visu...
And speaking of D compilers, LDC (the LLVM-based D compiler) has added Windows ARM64 support in 1.140.1: github.com/ldc-develope...
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In 1995, Steve Jobs explained why monopolies lead to no innovation: how salespeople and the "bean counters" take over.
Apple's IAP is a perfect example of this. Devs want so many new features - but Apple doesn't do it... as long as it has no competitive pressure!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VB...
Apple's IAP is a perfect example of this. Devs want so many new features - but Apple doesn't do it... as long as it has no competitive pressure!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VB...
Designer's Digest - Steve Jobs on the role of product and marketing people.
YouTube video by Designer's Digest
www.youtube.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
In 1995, Steve Jobs explained why monopolies lead to no innovation: how salespeople and the "bean counters" take over.
Apple's IAP is a perfect example of this. Devs want so many new features - but Apple doesn't do it... as long as it has no competitive pressure!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VB...
Apple's IAP is a perfect example of this. Devs want so many new features - but Apple doesn't do it... as long as it has no competitive pressure!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VB...
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“Why would Apple not do any real IAP improvements that would have helped their own devs make serve customers better, create more delightful experiences and (in the end) make more money?”
Being a monopoly using anticompetitive practices does this this exact thing to any company.
Being a monopoly using anticompetitive practices does this this exact thing to any company.
May 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
“Why would Apple not do any real IAP improvements that would have helped their own devs make serve customers better, create more delightful experiences and (in the end) make more money?”
Being a monopoly using anticompetitive practices does this this exact thing to any company.
Being a monopoly using anticompetitive practices does this this exact thing to any company.
1Password has now fixed the issue in a matter of minutes. Which means, they simply couldn’t care less about testing it.
As a paying customer, I want a complete report on how did it happen. How was security critical software left without updates for a month?
IT learned nothing since CrowdStrike.
As a paying customer, I want a complete report on how did it happen. How was security critical software left without updates for a month?
IT learned nothing since CrowdStrike.
Turns out 1Password failed to release not one, but two updates on Windows ARM64, while x64 version keeps getting updated.
This is an absolute failure. Wow.
This is an absolute failure. Wow.
April 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
1Password has now fixed the issue in a matter of minutes. Which means, they simply couldn’t care less about testing it.
As a paying customer, I want a complete report on how did it happen. How was security critical software left without updates for a month?
IT learned nothing since CrowdStrike.
As a paying customer, I want a complete report on how did it happen. How was security critical software left without updates for a month?
IT learned nothing since CrowdStrike.
Turns out 1Password failed to release not one, but two updates on Windows ARM64, while x64 version keeps getting updated.
This is an absolute failure. Wow.
This is an absolute failure. Wow.
April 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Turns out 1Password failed to release not one, but two updates on Windows ARM64, while x64 version keeps getting updated.
This is an absolute failure. Wow.
This is an absolute failure. Wow.
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With us moving to the new hosted ARM64 runners, a look back at our self-hosted ARM64 runner journey: www.msys2.org/news/#2025-0...
April 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
With us moving to the new hosted ARM64 runners, a look back at our self-hosted ARM64 runner journey: www.msys2.org/news/#2025-0...
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Native Windows ARM64 runners are now available on GitHub Actions. Just use "runs-on: windows-11-arm" and the setup-msys2 action with "msystem: CLANGARM64" to start building/testing. >90% of MSYS2 packages are available for ARM64, so everything should be good to go.
April 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Native Windows ARM64 runners are now available on GitHub Actions. Just use "runs-on: windows-11-arm" and the setup-msys2 action with "msystem: CLANGARM64" to start building/testing. >90% of MSYS2 packages are available for ARM64, so everything should be good to go.
JetBrains Toolbox 2.6 has been released with official support for Windows ARM64! 🎉
To be clear: JetBrains IDEs have had Windows ARM64 support for years; it’s only the Toolbox app itself that was lagging behind until now.
To be clear: JetBrains IDEs have had Windows ARM64 support for years; it’s only the Toolbox app itself that was lagging behind until now.
April 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
JetBrains Toolbox 2.6 has been released with official support for Windows ARM64! 🎉
To be clear: JetBrains IDEs have had Windows ARM64 support for years; it’s only the Toolbox app itself that was lagging behind until now.
To be clear: JetBrains IDEs have had Windows ARM64 support for years; it’s only the Toolbox app itself that was lagging behind until now.