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Joseph Musser
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Partner and principal dev at Techsola. 7-year Microsoft MVP. Working on new C# language features. Finding perfect balance.
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I didn't see null refs mentioned yet:
ref var x = ref System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.NullRef<object>(); if (x == null) { }
November 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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I've added a 360° node viewer to my Myst IV Asset Explorer (github.com/jnm2/MystIVA...)!

Rendering a skybox with SkiaSharp in Avalonia, from 3D projection first principles, was satisfying. Looking around at the final result with its layer transparency is surreal.
App screenshot showing 360° node viewer
October 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I made an app to browse and extract #Myst IV game assets, and play audio assets with gapless looping using #dotnet and #AvaloniaUI: github.com/jnm2/MystIVA...

It hits a nostalgic spot to have original game music instead of the official soundtrack's remix; I grew up playing the Myst games.
App screenshot showing in-app browsing panes and audio player
September 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Discussion for a proposal I'm working on: Target-typed static member lookup
github.com/dotnet/cshar...
Summary This feature enables a type name to be omitted from static member access when it is the same as the target type. This reduces construction and consumption verbosity for factory methods, nested derived types, enum values, constants, singletons, and other static members. In doing so, the way is also paved for discriminated unions to benefit from the same concise construction and consumption syntaxes. type.GetMethod("Name", .Public | .Instance | .DeclaredOnly); // BindingFlags.Public | ... control.ForeColor = .Red; // Color.Red entity.InvoiceDate = .Today; // DateTime.Today ReadJsonDocument(.Parse(stream)); // JsonDocument.Parse // Production (static members on Option<int>) Option<int> option = condition ? .None : .Some(42); // Production (nested derived types) CustomResult result = condition ? new .Success(42) : new .Error("message"); // Consumption (nested derived types) return result switch { .Success(var val) => val, .Error => defaultVal, };
January 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM