Max Katz

Avalonia DevTools MCP Server - Avalonia UI Generate UIs, inspect your apps and maximise the power of agentic development with the MCP support built into DevTools.

We've shipped the Avalonia DevTools MCP server in 2.2.0-beta2.

Watch Claude recreate a production UI view from a screenshot, inspecting properties, comparing outputs, and iterating until it's pixel-perfect.

This is what agentic development looks like:
avaloniaui.net/blog/avalon...

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've been to!

Past year alone:

* BFMV
* Powerwolf (by far the most memorable)
* Ado
* Hololive 6th fes

To make it five, my favorite from before

* Nightwish

And yet I mostly listen music like Hello Meteor, joe, Tsutchie at home

Yeah, same happened to my copilot when I tried to use it. Weird it’s not supported natively.

I bought one for myself and gifted another to my parents, after several months spent in Japan.

My favorite part about dependency properties is the value store. Ability to assign multiple values to a single property with different priorities is very powerful.

CSS has a precedence system, similar enough, but hides a lot of complexity from developer. Yet still confusing.

Never seen this either, wow. It doesn’t even look like a merge conflict

CityNerd and The War on Cars - great turnout. Brutal noisy walk past I-5 on the way to grab the Metro 1 home. @nerd4cities.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @townhallseattle.bsky.social

Doesn’t msbuild enforces the same behavior on Unix host too?
Like if I want to include (as an item group) all files in the directory- I would use “dir/**/*.*”.

Knowing how Microsoft keeps compatibility with older platforms, we will get a weird mix of both in the best case scenario.

Using and authoring .NET tools In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .NET runtimes and testing in CI

Blogged: Using and authoring .NET tools

andrewlock.net/using-and-au...

In this post I describe some of the complexities around authoring .NET tools, specifically around supporting multiple .NET runtimes and testing in CI

#dotnet

As I work on Resharper performance, I learn about limitations of .NET (at least, .NET Framework) that I wasn't aware of. Here, I shaved 1 second of CPU time on startup by... removing a call to Array.Empty<T>.

But not when you decide to check it one more time before bed and it’s red.

For NativeWebView, .BeginReparenting() method should be useful to keep native element loaded in tree while doing d’n’d and replacing parents 👀

This

github.com/dotnet/rosly...

Old source generators API was much easier, but also much slower.

New incremental generators are difficult. Although roslyn team has a very informative cook book.

Seattle July 4th fireworks

🎇🎆🎇

Because wordpad is dead.

5,658 miles. Quite a distance.

Right thing for the right task is a good point. And TypeScript team explained well, why did they choose Go.

And yet, C# can be also considered a right tool for this specific task. While also having syntax close enough compared to TS.

In the end, Go is fine too, and job has already been started.

It was almost ten years ago. Time flies.

With the Space Needle and a partly cloudy sky as a backdrop, people hold signs at today’s rally. One says “Science is US.” Another reads “#StandUp for Science.”

Two people in chicken costumes hold signs at the science rally. A man in a fuzzy yellow chicken suit with red leggings holds a sign that reads, “Us birds are dying while RFK Jr is lying. #sciencesaveslives.” Next to him, a woman in a white and red chicken suit with yellow leggings holds a sign that reads, “We have the Flu. Soon you may too. #sciencesaveslives”

With the Space Needle in the background, here are two more signs at the science rally. The one on the left says, “Ignorance of science is not evidence against it” and the one on the right says, “Don’t silence the science.”

Two more great signs at the science rally. On the left, “GIRLS just wanna have FUNding for research.” On the right, “MAD SCIENTIST” above a picture of Beaker from the Muppets.

A great turnout for #StandUpForScience2025 in Seattle. About 2000 people showed under partly sunny skies, with appearances by Gov. Ferguson and a bald eagle flyover! Plus lots of great signs. 🧪

My personal rule with using AI is simple.

Any cloud-AI solution must be explicit, where I control what to send. Like a llm chat or similar.

For implicit stuff like autocomplete, it should be a local model or no AI at all.

You hate XAML? Then write our app in JavaScript React CSS HTML Electron **insert more buzzwords**

Screenshots of four different editions of CrystalDiskInfo. Three of them have Japanese anime characters featured prominently in the UI for absolutely no reason other than the author thinks they look nice.

Isn't it nice living in a world where the de facto hard drive diagnostic tool for WIndows, CrystalDiskInfo, comes in four different editions - which are identical other than featuring a different anime character as the background to the main window?

Screen mirroring to your Samsung TV You can mirror your phone’s screen to your Samsung TV using the Smart View feature.

Looks like it's possible www.samsung.com/us/support/a...

I can cast from my mac to apple tv. No idea about windows, I use hdmi there.

I bought S90B in 2023, and use it with apple tv and sometimes direct hdmi from my pc for some games. No issues so far.

Aside from tv size, you should decide on the panel. Something like QD-OLED or WOLED is cutting-edge tech, with benefits of HDR and color quality. Leaders are Samsung and LG, but any tv with these panels should be at least decent.

I guess it makes more sense if I had to move my plex/jellyfin server outside of the local network.

What’s the benefit of using tailscale for local home network? They even mention Plex and Jellyfin as an example, but I can connect to these directly via official clients.