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You Can Just Build It Yourself
The DataGrid took me years. With an LLM it took days. Paid software that drove whole industries is now something a good developer can …
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Copilot on a Credit Budget
GitHub Copilot now bills by the token instead of by the prompt. Here is what an agent session actually costs, how to work it out for any …
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Lights Out on Offshoring
Offshore development answered a real shortage for twenty years. Every tradeoff that made it painful just evaporated, and the firms selling …
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A Decade of Change
My tenth Microsoft MVP award, twenty years of .NET, and why I am not interested in picking a side in the AI fight.
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Software's Flat-Pack Era
Software used to be a craft you earned over years. Now it comes flat-pack, and the people who can still tell good work from garbage are the …
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KumikoUI Updates - Action Buttons, Per-Column Edit Triggers, and Custom Fonts
A look at the three KumikoUI features that shipped this past week, covering interactive action buttons, per-column edit triggers, and a new …
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Maui
MintedTextEditor - A Rich Text Editor for .NET MAUI
Introducing MintedTextEditor, a fully canvas-drawn rich text editor for .NET MAUI built on SkiaSharp with support for formatting, images, …
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Maui
KumikoUI - A Free, Open-Source DataGrid for MAUI
Introducing KumikoUI, a fully canvas-drawn, open-source DataGrid for .NET MAUI built on SkiaSharp with support for sorting, filtering, …
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GitHub Copilot in VS Code - Quick Wins for Getting Started
Practical tips for getting real value out of GitHub Copilot in VS Code without overcomplicating it
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VConSharp - Virtual Conversations for .NET
Introducing VConSharp, a .NET library for creating and managing vCons (virtual conversations) with support for signing, analysis, and …
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