Austin Wise

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[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

This is the most complete description of the intricacies of .NET finalizers I have seen.

[Kevin Gosse @KooKiz]

I published part 10 of my "Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C#" series: https://t.co/yDIWKhvoeY

This time, I implemented support for finalization, which reveals some intricacies of the .NET runtime.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@AlexanderTw33ts @JamesNK This + Smart Pipe = hyperconverged toilet experience

https://t.co/AvtU6CvpSk

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Join the Goon Coding movement and share your vibe cave here:
https://t.co/d4PZpPcqef

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

I got my vibe-cave set up and did some Goon Coding. It feels good to turn off your brain and pump out some code.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@bcantrill Is this your proposal for a Monktoberfest 2026 talk? I would like to learn more about the history of Silicon Valley's intersection with civil rights.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@marcusash I'd like to see a more general commitment to respecting your users. Like a commitment to stop creating dialogs advertising a feature that only have "yes" or "remind me again in a week" as an option. These dark patterns are while I gave up on using Windows.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@pavandavuluri I'd like to see a more general commitment to respecting your users. Like a commitment to stop creating dialogs advertising a feature that only have "yes" or "remind me again in a week" as an option. These dark patterns are while I gave up on using Windows.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

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[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma and want your SOAP web services to be relevant again? Now you can put the smooth sheen of AI on your pile of angle brackets by exposing your SOAP-based web service as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server using the mcp2ws MCP server.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@JustinRYoung An example of a hoodie of my alma mater, perplexingly in a shop in Osaka.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

Anyone else noticing that the Following feed is missing tweets? I can see the last days worths of tweets, then it jumps to the middle of last month.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@patio11 Another possibility is their training covered USA birthright citizenship. It is plausible for you to have, say, an Irish passport while your children have USA passports.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@davidfowl @STeplyakov @jaredpar Looks like it was all the way back in .NET 5:

https://t.co/sr9lckPzIx

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@STeplyakov @davidfowl @jaredpar And the reason you might not see the thread in .NET 8 is may be because you have not used it yet. See the pictures of this sample app I wrote on .NET 8, where the TP Gate thread is only visible after queuing work on the pool.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

@STeplyakov @davidfowl @jaredpar The CoreCLR thread pool was rewritten from C++ to C#. The gate thread always existed, I think, but it became visible from .NET debuggers as a result of this transition. You can see the deletion of the old thread pool from the .NET 8 release here:
https://t.co/tZCfspqGLo

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

Read more here:

https://t.co/ki2FYE7Nwn

It’s a really simple code generator, but it works well enough for my use case that I can migrate of the CsvHelper library.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

I have a side project that’s been on my TODO list for a long time (a C# Source Generator for @nietras1‘s excellent Sep CSV parsing library). I finally got around to creating using some agentic coding tools and wrote up my experience on my blog.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

Git 2.28.0 added the feature to change the default 5 years this month:

https://t.co/JQv2izR5xl

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

A mildly interesting observation about the change of my muscle memory and changing defaults in open source: having a branch in Git named `master` surprises my muscle memory more than having a branch named `main`. So I guess I'll be migrating my default branch name to `main`.

[Austin Wise @AustinWise]

Don’t limit yourself to C# 7.3 when targeting the .NET Framework! A little pollyfill gets you most of the modern C# features.

[Sergiy Teplyakov 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @STeplyakov]

Posted another episode on YouTube: "Unlocking Modern C# Features Targeting .NET Framework".

Quite a few devs limit themselves with C# 7.3 when they target full framework or .netstandard2.0.

You still can leverage most of the latest C# features in this case. This video shows some of my favorite features and how to unblock them with .Full Framework or .netstandard.

https://t.co/bsTk2i2RZO