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Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

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Father. Husband. Programmer. Microsoft MVP. GitHub Star alumni. Likes OSS, compilers, programming. Cake, Spectre.Console. Ally ✊🏾🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♀️(He/Him) @patriksvensson@mstdn.social

Stockholm archipelago, Sweden

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Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

What vibe coded hellscape is this? Agents? Agent workspace? MCP on Windows?

If they don't get their act together soon, before the Steam Machine launches, I'm uninstalling Windows for good, after 20 years of using it.

Some marketing image displaying all the new AI buzzwords they're trying to put in Windows.

November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

No one else is seeing this on NuGet? Getting it both via CLI and website upload.

No one else seems to be complaining. Feels like they are shadow-banning me or something 😁

Error message: There is a conflict with the ID and version of your package and another package.

November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Hey NuGet! Can you tell 11e4935e to get back to me ASAP? It's been 48 hours of disruption now!

E-mail:

"Hi @Patrik Svensson

Thank you for contacting NuGet.org support. We received your request and are actively working on it, will keep you posted with updates accordingly.

Best Regards,
NuGet Admin
(Representative: 11e4935e)"

November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

I showed my father this picture, and he said, "But why don't you charge money for it?"

Oh, you sweet summer child.

I got 200 million downloads of packages on NuGet.

November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Do I know any Blazor experts here?

If I click the "MyComponent" button below, I get an error saying "The render handle is not yet assigned". However, if I first click the "Click me" button, and THEN the "MyComponent" button, it will work as expected.

$Blazor code: @page "/counter" @rendermode InteractiveServer <PageTitle>Counter</PageTitle> <h1>Counter</h1> <p role="status">Current count: @_currentCount</p> <button class="btn btn-primary" @onclick="IncrementCount">Click me</button> <button class="btn btn-primary" @onclick="_myComponentRef.ShowComponent">MyComponent</button> <MyComponent @ref="_myComponentRef"></MyComponent> @code { private int _currentCount = 0; private MyComponent _myComponentRef = null!; private void IncrementCount() { _currentCount++; } protected override void OnInitialized() { _myComponentRef = new MyComponent(); base.OnInitialized(); } }$ Blazor code:

@if (Show)
{
<h3>MyComponent</h3>
}

@code {
public bool Show { get; set; }

public void ShowComponent()
{
Show = true;
}
}

Blazor code:

@if (Show)
{
<h3>MyComponent</h3>
}

@code {
public bool Show { get; set; }

public void ShowComponent()
{
Show = true;
}
}

November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

New office decoration arrived! 😍

A poster saying: "Using generative AI? You're prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a fascist project! Don't surrender your creativity to the tech billionaires' control"

November 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Absolutely not a bubble 🙂

L'Oréal: "We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen AI"

November 18, 2025 at 7:29 AM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

A lot of assumptions being made here...

"hlo sir kindly check the PR,and merge it"

November 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Much easier to work with relative coordinates than manually translating everything all the time. Viewport looks great! :)

November 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

@simoncropp.bsky.social Hey Simon. Sorry for nerd sniping you like this.

I'm trying to add Polyfill to Spectre.Console, and everything works great, except that the compiler is not respecting the `NotNullWhen` attribute.

Any idea what might be wrong?

November 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Not even my weather app is nice to me.

Notification from CARROT: "Ha ha ha, fuck you. Light rain for the hour"

November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Here's a simple test that verifies that only the diff between two frames is rendered:

C# code below:

// Given
var fixture = new TuiFixture(new Size(11, 5));
fixture.Render(new TestTextWidget(2, 1, "Hello"));

// When
var result = fixture.Render(frame =>
{
frame.Render(new TestTextWidget(2, 1, "Hello"));
frame.Render(new TestTextWidget(2, 2, "World"));
});

// Then
result.ShouldBe(
"""
???????????
???????????
??World????
???????????
???????????
""");

November 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

A nice thing with immediate mode UI:s, is that they are super easy to write tests for

$C# code below: // Given var terminal = new TestTerminal(new Size(10, 5)); var renderer = new Renderer(terminal); // When renderer.Draw((frame, _) => { frame.Render(new TestWidget()); }); // Then terminal.Output.ShouldBe( """ x••••••••• •••••••••• •••••••••• •••••••••• •••••••••• """);$

November 4, 2025 at 7:34 AM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

I was a bit bored, so I wrote a snake game using the Spectre.Tui prototype.

November 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM

Patrik Svensson

@patriksvensson.se

Got two buffers now in Spectre.Tui that I swap between. Only the diff between the current and previous buffer is rendered. By doing that, I significantly improved the FPS in Rider's terminal.