Cory Nelson

🗒️Blogged "An Efficient Dictionary for IPAddress Tracking using ․NET 9 with AlternateLookup and IAlternateEqualityComparer" #dotnet #csharp stevejgordon.co.uk/efficient-dict…

Using CancellationTokenSource.CancelAfter with a TimeProvider is not obvious and potentially inefficient depending on how you do it.

@_MihaZupan Fuck, that was hard to watch.

It's like watching "Collateral Murder" again

I often see people mention JIT and GC as performance differentiators comparing C++ and C#, but rarely see mention of object allocation overhead and locality of reference (reference types) or branch target prediction (interfaces/DI).

#Dune2 was an absolute masterpiece. If you like movies, it felt like the way parents/grandparents describe seeing Star Wars. If you like the book, not only does it live up but it ADDS to it in ways that will probably satisfy you. Go see it.

Hard agree with this. .NET docs (most of MSDN really... maybe due to technical writers?) were once among the best. Now ASP has tons of undocumented APIs, it's hard to find docs for old patterns, you need to parse outdated blogs, Twitter MVP bs, etc... reddit.com/r/csharp/comme…

When you're young and figuring things out, it's common to quickly assume bugs exist in a platform/library when you can't find them in your code. It's usually in your code. When you're old and find an actual bug you work extra hard to make sure you aren't fooling yourself 😂

@RenoBo Hell yeah.

@ericniebler C# is just really fantastic for getting things done! It has almost all of your library needs built-in with consistent APIs. Documentation emphasizes "scenarios" above APIs. In recent years, performance nuts can even scratch that itch to a similar degree that C++ offers.

C# edges out C++ by this measure. Interesting! Maybe it's my bubble, but I don't hear much about C#. To me this feels like a quiet, slow-roll revolution.

@TheWhigs in ATL 🎉🎉🎉 so worth the trip.

These unspeakable crimes must stop now.

@GeoffreyHuntley Valve Index if you only want PCVR. Quest if you want a standalone (with vendor lock-in store) or wireless (with extra latency) experience.

@scalablecory ❤️ haven’t figured out which VR headset to get yet. Any recommendations?

@GeoffreyHuntley I do! Mostly ACC with occasional iRacing. DIRT is also a wonderful one to try. I haven't tried the new Forza yet, but plan to. Past versions have lagged behind in sim realism compared to these two, so it wasn't as compelling for PC gamers.

@scalablecory 4090 rig incoming and NLR cockpit too. I agree :) Do you race?

The new Microsoft icon style looks edible

Nitpick of annoyance at @Atlassian listing "C", "C++", and "CSharp". Why not "C#"?

@dotMorten The term "source sharing" gives me bad memories of MS's "shared source initiative".

Source for WinUI is in final stages!

@terrajobst I've seen this feature used in a misguided attempt to optimize out "this" when it wasn't needed. By me, as a youngling 🤷‍♂️.

Excited to see @TheWhigs in concert for first time in years.

@firstdrafthell I'm always a little sad that proof-of-work systems like Hashcash didn't work here.

Is there a good alternative to captchas that doesn't require the user to perform some explicit action?