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[Daniel Bradley @DanielatOCN]

I've collated 2400+ Microsoft architecture icons and published them for easy access at https://t.co/C1Zv6sIkzn 💙

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#Microsoft

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

Anders Hejlsberg (@ahejlsberg) is a living legend: he created Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C# and TypeScript (and today TypeScript is the most-used programming language, globally, as per GitHub.)

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
02:48 How Anders got into programming
05:40 Building his first compiler
07:44 Turbo Pascal
12:25 Delphi
14:53 Joining Microsoft
19:41 Building C#
29:11 Async/await
34:01 The rise of JavaScript
37:52 Building TypeScript
42:58 How the TypeScript compiler works
48:30 JavaScript’s strengths and weaknesses
52:18 How Anders uses AI
56:03 What language features work well with AI
1:02:49 How software craftsmanship is changing
1:07:49 Performance and efficiency
1:09:29 Anders’ tool stack
1:11:30 A 30-year career at Microsoft
1:13:40 Book recommendation

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Four things that stood out to me:

1. “10x better for 1/10th of the price” is a proven winner.

This is what Turbo Pascal did: it sold for $49.95 when competing compilers cost $500, and it was faster and more interactive than competitors’ products. Conveniently, the low price tag also killed off piracy

2. C# might have not existed without a famous court case.

Microsoft originally hired Anders to architect its Java tools (Visual J++), but the Sun versus Microsoft lawsuit (1997-2001) meant Microsoft could not build on top of Java, as the company that owned Java’s IP (Sun) sued MS for alleged unauthorized changes to the Java language. Microsoft realized it had to build a new language that combined VB’s productivity with C++’s power. This led to C# and .NET.

3. TypeScript exists because Anders refused to build Script# for the Outlook .com team.

Microsoft’s Outlook .com team asked Anders’ C# team to productize “ScriptSharp,” a language to cross-compile C# to JavaScript. Anders and the C# team pushed back, suggesting that a better approach was to fix JavaScript. Anders felt strongly that to be attractive to the best-of-breed developers in the JavaScript ecosystem, you want people to write JavaScript, and not another language like C#.

4. Designing a programming language is a 10-year play.

As Anders puts it: “Version one is great, but has all sorts of issues. You’ve got to do version two, but it’s not until version three that it really starts to be great. Then you’ve got to convince people to adopt it.”

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

I don't work on reliability & scaling at GitHub, but the people who do aren't bad at their jobs. They're dealing with unprecedented scale from agents.

It's easy to shit on GitHub from the outside if you're not in charge of 30X-ing capacity within a few months. Have some grace.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.

My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/8Kg8FOrgHW

[Martin Woodward @martinwoodward]

Hey folks, had some conversations about this today so thought it would be helpful to be clear.

GitHub does not and does not plan to include advertisements on the platform.

We recently identified a programming logic issue in the GitHub Copilot coding agent that caused a 'product tip', including a third-party suggestion, to appear incorrectly in a pull request comment. This issue was introduced on March 24 during a rollout that expanded Copilot’s ability to contribute to any pull request when requested to by a developer.

As a result, a third-party link was mistakenly displayed in a way that could be interpreted as a promotion. Our goal was to share novel ways to use Copilot coding agent, and in this case, we highlighted our integration with Raycast as part of a broader set of product tips, but this was surfaced more frequently than intended alongside other feature suggestions. We have removed Copilot agent tips from all pull requests moving forward.

We appreciate the community flagging this and apologize for the error.

[DevScope @DevScope]

Great things are built together, with trust, collaboration, and people who care.
Thank you to our team, clients, and partners for being part of our journey.

At DevScope, people always come first.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a joyful holiday season 🎄✨

[Rick Strahl @RickStrahl]

Blogged: What the heck is a `\\.\nul` path and why is it breaking my Directory Files Lookup?

I've run into an odd issue where I see these `\\.\nul` file errors in my application logs quite frequently - apparently caused by Claude code mucking up null device redirection on Windows.

https://t.co/oaKQjUU202

[Scott Hanselman 🌮 @shanselman]

My iPhone has 12 million times more power than my first computer. Tech promised convenience and creativity. Instead we got crushing cognitive load. Not really sure how that's going.

#TEDx | Full talk: https://t.co/fTFu7cmxWZ

[Sandro Pereira @sandro_asp]

If you are attending NIS... see this https://t.co/niURYpsDDR #LogicAppsAviators #NIS #NIS2025 #NIS25

[DevScope @DevScope]

🚀 We’re hiring! Marketing Specialist at DevScope

Join our team and take charge of content creation, SEO, and campaign optimization.

Apply now: https://t.co/RCiCptLIsz

[Damian Edwards @DamianEdwards]

.NET STS releases now supported for 2 years instead of 18 months starting with .NET 9 (the current STS). STS releases now go out-of-support on the same day as the previous LTS release. Upgrading to an STS release will no longer cause you to lose support!
https://t.co/OBGyMDXqew

[DevScope @DevScope]

Proud to support the 1st Francisco Costa Trophy, honoring the memory of a great talent who started his career with us and left a lasting mark. A beautiful tribute to an extraordinary person.

[Visual Studio Debugger @VS_Debugger]

Not a performance expert?
No problem. With Copilot Profiler Agent in Visual Studio, you can analyze, fix, and validate performance issues right inside your project.
#VS2026

https://t.co/OgwCKtBRRg

[DevScope @DevScope]

Digital innovation meets climate action!

DevScope joins #City4Climate to develop Digital Twins for Porto, Lisbon & Guimarães.

Real-time data, predictive modeling, smarter decisions – for a carbon-neutral future.
https://t.co/mSJwslAkku

#SmartCities #DigitalTwins #DevScope

[Sandro Pereira @sandro_asp]

Friday Fact: It is impossible to migrate a BizTalk Server environment to Logic Apps! https://t.co/DntAlsvqcS #LogicAppsAviators #AIS #FridayFact

[Sandro Pereira @sandro_asp]

Logic App Best practices, Tips and Tricks: #1 Logic App Naming Convention (extended/revisited) https://t.co/jk5G7THjR0 #LogicAppsAviators #AIS

[David Fowler @davidfowl]

New swag alert!

https://t.co/UekDk5V7Gt

#aspire

[Deniz İrgin @denizirgin]

📢 Finally finished work on LocalStack - .NET Aspire Integration!

🚀RC now on NuGet.
1️⃣Extends official AWS Aspire integrations with LocalStack features
2️⃣Auto-detects AWS resources
3️⃣Auto-configures LocalStack endpoints

🔗 https://t.co/T8shV9CKcZ

cc: @davidfowl @localstack

[Sandro Pereira @sandro_asp]

Friday Fact: Did you know that Azure API Management supports Schemas https://t.co/MkDM5TQrGl #AIS #LogicAppsAviators #FridayFact

[Damian Edwards @DamianEdwards]

Conference opportunity in Europe: https://t.co/DGkRgPTMuO
Cloud-focused agenda (not just AI!), workshops, & great speakers!

💰Early Bird pricing ends this week!

I'll be there teaching & speaking w/ @davidfowl & @maddymontaquila about Aspire & .NET native AOT (RazorSlices!)