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I did not expect the first (public) demo of Carbon-C++ interop I saw to be on a Commodore 64 emulator at a cppnorth keynote about empathy. Great work @scott.hanselman.com

There are only two times that I hear the (admittedly whisper-quiet) fan in my M1 Pro MacBook Pro turn on: when running intensive AI models that take time to produce a response like gemma3:27b in ollama, and when running a build in Xcode.

We just shipped .NET Aspire 9.2! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet...

Lots of cool features in this release and a step towards deploying to a lot more places! We're also shipping a new aspire command line tool!

#dotnet #aspire

The ASF Infrastructure team is hiring two experienced #sysadmin contractors in Europe or the UK. Candidates should demonstrate strong sysadmin skills in diverse environments, proven experience w/ #opensource tools and methodologies & deep understanding of #FOSS project dynamics.

Perception continues to be a problem for .NET. 10 years after we open sourced the platform.

We're now more than 2/3 done (68%) with Apache Lucene.NET 4.8 beta 18 (hopefully the last beta). Will be 82% once we get PRs/deps and WIP finished up. Progress is slower than I had hoped for the last month or so, but continuing to move along.

FluentAssertions just rug-pulled their FOSS license, and now any commercial users have to pay up *just to go from v7 to v8*. Use Dependabot or accidentally upgrade? Oops, you're now talking to legal. This is entrapment and is unethical for a package with 450M downloads. github.com/fluentassert...

EF Core 10 is fixing ugly parameter names in the generated SQL! i.e. instead of `@__city_0`, it can now generate `@city` as the parameter name. This will be a very welcome improvement. github.com/dotnet/efcor...

This is huge: LINQ is getting left/right join in .NET 10 (finally)! It's even a significant perf improvement for in-memory LINQ over GroupJoin/DefaultIfEmpty. See the last comment for the C# query syntax proposal to match the extension method. github.com/dotnet/runti...

Lucene.NET 4.8.0 beta 18 is now 60% done, and will be ~72% once the open PRs are merged! It finally feels like this final beta is getting within reach. Not letting the foot off the gas; I'll be doing a big push in the next few weeks to knock out as many issues as I can. github.com/apache/lucen...

We are finally over halfway done (by issue count) with the Lucene.NET 4.8.0-beta00018 release! I have some time off over the holidays and hope to blitz the remaining items as much as I can. Want to help us? Jump in! github.com/apache/lucen...

Given that nearly all .NET Framework apps use open source software in some way, if you work on such an app, please, for the sake of the OSS maintainers you depend upon, get on modern .NET 8+. Please. We as an industry need .NET Framework <= 4.x to die. Make it your 2025 new year’s resolution!

We're 42% done with Lucene.NET 4.8.0-beta00018, hopefully our last 4.8 beta release. Will be 46% once I get some PRs merged. A little behind pace for my personal goal of having this release dev complete by the end of the year; got some catching up to do. github.com/apache/lucen...

Finally dropping the .NET 5 tests from Lucene.NET! You read that right. We run tests against net5.0 to test netstandard2.1, as the latest framework that supports it below net6.0. By dropping the outdated net6.0 target, we can now run netstandard2.1 tests against net6.0. github.com/apache/lucen...

Working on a tool to test API compatibility of Lucene.NET against Lucene, I learned something new about the JVM (which, admittedly, I have quite a bit less experience in than .NET). Bridge methods are generated by the compiler to support covariant return types: javax0.wordpress.com/2014/02/26/s...

Hello Bluesky! I'll mostly be talking about my open source work here, currently focused on Apache Lucene.NET. If you're interested in helping contribute to an open source .NET project, we could use the help. We're trying hard to finish up the 4.8 release. Contribute at github.com/apache/lucen...