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@relizarov PowerShell is basically a full blown programming language with access to a rich library. I asked an agent to create a logo. It created an svg file, then wrote this script to convert it to a png.

Why all dev tools started defaulting to PowerShell on Windows? Might be useful for sysadmins, but it adds zero value for a typical dev workflow, only extra friction. I always switch back to plain old cmd.exe for my own needs, but all the agents tend to prefer PS and fail with it.

@thedarshakrana Does this mean that lobotomy is the cure, and that lobotomized patients were seeing true reality - the one seen by spiritualists, people on shrooms, or those experiencing meningitis or a stroke?🤔

When Johns Hopkins researchers gave psilocybin to volunteers and scanned their brains, they expected to see more neural activity. Instead, they found the opposite. The default mode network, your brain’s primary filter system, went almost completely dark. Blood flow dropped by up to 60% in regions responsible for maintaining your sense of self and screening incoming information. And that’s exactly when participants reported the most vivid, meaningful experiences of their lives. Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris discovered something that breaks our basic assumptions about consciousness. In his studies, the intensity of psychedelic experience correlates inversely with brain activity. The quieter the brain, the richer the perceived reality. Volunteers consistently described accessing information and perspectives that felt more real and true than their baseline consciousness. One participant put it perfectly: “It wasn’t like I was imagining things. It was like I stopped imagining things.” Consider what your brain filters out right now. You can’t see the electromagnetic spectrum beyond visible light, even though it’s flooding through your body every second. You can’t hear the ultrasonic communications happening between animals around you. You can’t feel the gravitational waves from colliding black holes rippling through spacetime. But the filtering goes deeper than sensory limitations. Take change blindness experiments. Researchers have people watch videos where major elements of the scene change completely between cuts. A person’s shirt changes color. Buildings disappear. An entire conversation partner gets replaced by someone else mid-dialogue. Most viewers notice nothing. Your brain shows you continuity even when reality is shifting dramatically. Or consider inattentional blindness. In the famous gorilla experiment, people counting basketball passes fail to notice a person in a gorilla suit walking directly through their field of vision. The information hits your retina perfectly. Your brain discards it as irrelevant before you become conscious of it. Now imagine this filtering happening at levels you can’t measure. What if your brain doesn’t just edit out obvious distractions? What if it edits out entire dimensions of information that would overwhelm your survival priorities? Neuroscientist Eben Alexander experienced this firsthand during a coma caused by bacterial meningitis. His neocortex, the brain region responsible for filtering and organizing conscious experience, shut down completely for seven days. During that time, he reported accessing what felt like direct, unfiltered contact with reality itself. No sense of separation between observer and observed. No categorization or prediction. Just pure information flow. The experience was so vivid and structured that he spent years trying to reconcile it with his neuroscience training… Evolution built your consciousness for survival, not accuracy. The human who notices every detail of every moment doesn’t last long in environments with predators. The human who automatically filters the world into “threat,” “food,” “mate,” and “ignore” lives long enough to reproduce. What psychedelics might do is temporarily disable the survival filter and let raw reality through. UCLA researchers also found that people on psychedelics show increased connectivity between brain regions that normally don’t communicate. Areas responsible for vision start talking directly to areas responsible for emotion and memory. The rigid hierarchies that usually control information flow break down. Instead of perception flowing through the usual bottlenecks and filters, information moves freely between systems that evolution separated for good reasons. The results match reports from users across cultures and centuries. Heightened awareness of connection between all things. Dissolution of the boundary between self and environment. Direct access to information that feels more fundamental than normal thought. What if consensus reality isn’t reality? What if it’s just the narrow slice of available information that keeps seven billion filtering systems functioning in approximately the same way? The consistency of our shared hallucination doesn’t make it true. It just makes it useful. Your sober mind might be the altered state.

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I wouldn't, but it's Stephen Toub. devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/ten-mon…

@mkristensen "View/Edit as DataGrid" would make it complete.

I wrote 10 new extensions. See them demoed here youtu.be/5v1aB-bq3a8?si…

“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.” — Albert Einstein

Not every day GPT-5.4 agrees with all my suggestions. It usually starts implementing them without a word.

@tomwarren Windows desperately needs men of the old days back. And vibe coding banned, at least for now.

it's very good news for Windows power users that Scott is involved in the Windows 11 improvement effort. Microsoft is planning to ship these improvements every month throughout 2026

@headinthebox Text languages are for leather sacks. Real Low-Level-Machines write straight to binary executables.

IBM engineers once had to wear ties because the company was really a sales organization. Eventually nobody remembered why; yet everyone kept wearing them. Coding standards like K&R vs Allman braces and snake_case vs PascalCase were invented so humans could read and maintain each other’s code. Soon nobody will remember why; the question is whether we’ll still require them.

@vxunderground It's XAML

It isn't built in React. All GUI still is still primarily explorer.exe which loads shell32.dll, twinui.dll, shcore.dll which is C and/or C++ The taskbar is Taskbar.dll and does a bunch of COM (Component Object Model) stuff to interop with their new goofy XAML island thingy and some WebView2 stuff. Basically, C/C++ --> C# ---> XAML/XML If you decompile Taskbar.dll you can see the COM (C++) thingies interopting with the other thingies (C#). People get confused because WebView2 is a Chromium thingie for rendering. Microsoft uses that to make the OS look fancy schmancy and display ads and stuff, or whatever.

@davidfowl TUI is a temporary stage. When things settle down, we'll get back to the proper UI.

Filling out an expense report in the worst UI possible on one screen and living in the future doing software engineering with 4 terminal windows on the other. We have so much work to do...

@mkristensen We are still reading it.

When AI is writing more of your code, how important are code formatting and .editorconfig files to you?

@marcgravell Many (most?) of the PRs in the runtime repo are about runtime async or webasm.

Just noticed that .NET 11 is meant to be experimenting with runtime async. As an async "producer" (SE.Redis etc), I should probably look into this sooner rather than later....

@bx_on_x It was..

“On September 29, 2025, it sent him — armed with knives and tactical gear — to scout what Gemini called a ‘kill box’ near the airport’s cargo hub,” the complaint reads. "It told Jonathan that a humanoid robot was arriving on a cargo flight from the UK and directed him to a storage facility where the truck would stop. Gemini encouraged Jonathan to intercept the truck and then stage a ‘catastrophic accident’ designed to ‘ensure the complete destruction of the transport vehicle and . . . all digital records and witnesses.’”

@stevensanderson Dense and juicy 🤌🤌🤌

youtu.be/L1w6wBxhpgE?si… (from last month, but many parts are still true!)

@mkristensen Every panel should have a button in the toolbar to configure the font.

Visual Studio tip: Activate search in any tool window with a search box by hitting Alt+` on a US keyboard. For other layouts, the command is "Window.WindowSearch". If the window has no search, it will show the navigation menu - this goes for open documents too!

@mkristensen @pierceboggan A few..

@pierceboggan yup

The VSIX cookbook has been updated with more recipes and general info on how to create Visual Studio extensions. vsixcookbook.com

@aibytekat So.. I had ADHD my entire childhood? 🤔

She literally tells how people with ADHD read.

@0omari0 Only took 6 years 😅 It's time

This is big github.com/dotnet/runtime…