Austin Wise

@bcantrill Is this your proposal for a Monktoberfest 2026 talk? I would like to learn more about the history of Silicon Valley's intersection with civil rights.

Something that people on this platform apparently need to hear, even if it makes them feel uncomfortable: if you live in a state that does not believe that transgender rights are human rights, you will never be a true alternative to Silicon Valley -- let alone the next one.

@marcusash I'd like to see a more general commitment to respecting your users. Like a commitment to stop creating dialogs advertising a feature that only have "yes" or "remind me again in a week" as an option. These dark patterns are while I gave up on using Windows.

There’s a lot of work underway that Pavan shared earlier today. Something that I know has been at the top of a lot of people’s minds is the feeling that feedback goes into a void, without real people to review and see it on the other side. To help with that, I’ll be taking on an expanded role as the exec sponsor of the Windows Insider Program to listen, engage, and help shape what’s ahead with the Windows community. Over the coming weeks, we’ll also introduce you to members of the product teams that will help you get answers on the topics you care about most. I’d love to hear from you. What would you like to see more of from us as we get started?

@pavandavuluri I'd like to see a more general commitment to respecting your users. Like a commitment to stop creating dialogs advertising a feature that only have "yes" or "remind me again in a week" as an option. These dark patterns are while I gave up on using Windows.

The team and I have spent the past several months analyzing feedback from the community. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better. Read this blog post to learn more about what we're doing in response as we look to raise the bar on Windows 11 quality. Please keep the feedback coming, to help us shape the future of Windows together. blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…

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@JustinRYoung An example of a hoodie of my alma mater, perplexingly in a shop in Osaka.

In every hip neighborhood in Europe there’s a shop that’s basically a random Goodwill in Illinois selling Middle School basketball hoodies for 60 euros.

Anyone else noticing that the Following feed is missing tweets? I can see the last days worths of tweets, then it jumps to the middle of last month.

@patio11 Another possibility is their training covered USA birthright citizenship. It is plausible for you to have, say, an Irish passport while your children have USA passports.

(I think this was probably a training issue and not what would be locally considered an extreme level of cosmopolitanism.)

Clerk, in Japanese: And will all four of you be traveling to Hawaii on Japanese passports? Me: *vapor locks* The children will be entering the United States on American passports. Clerk: And yourself sir? Me: Sorry, I have never been asked this question in that exact way before.

@davidfowl @STeplyakov @jaredpar Looks like it was all the way back in .NET 5: github.com/dotnet/runtime…

@AustinWise @STeplyakov @jaredpar I was looking to see when we introduced the portable thread pool but it was before net8 (though maybe behind a feature flag)

Hey dotnet folks. Do you know what these threads are for and how I can disable them for a simple console application? @jaredpar, @davidfowl maybe you guys could help me to find who might know about them. (or maybe you know what they're and how to disable them)

@STeplyakov @davidfowl @jaredpar And the reason you might not see the thread in .NET 8 is may be because you have not used it yet. See the pictures of this sample app I wrote on .NET 8, where the TP Gate thread is only visible after queuing work on the pool.

@STeplyakov @davidfowl @jaredpar The CoreCLR thread pool was rewritten from C++ to C#. The gate thread always existed, I think, but it became visible from .NET debuggers as a result of this transition. You can see the deletion of the old thread pool from the .NET 8 release here: github.com/dotnet/runtime…

Read more here: awise.us/2025/07/27/sou… It’s a really simple code generator, but it works well enough for my use case that I can migrate of the CsvHelper library.

I have a side project that’s been on my TODO list for a long time (a C# Source Generator for @nietras1‘s excellent Sep CSV parsing library). I finally got around to creating using some agentic coding tools and wrote up my experience on my blog.

Git 2.28.0 added the feature to change the default 5 years this month: @gitster.c.googlers.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">lore.kernel.org/git/xmqq5za8hp…

A mildly interesting observation about the change of my muscle memory and changing defaults in open source: having a branch in Git named `master` surprises my muscle memory more than having a branch named `main`. So I guess I'll be migrating my default branch name to `main`.

Don’t limit yourself to C# 7.3 when targeting the .NET Framework! A little pollyfill gets you most of the modern C# features.

The setting is also somewhat backwards. Usually these things are framed as "opt-in". You "opt-in" to sharing or improving the software. Instead they flip it to "enable privacy". Extra confusing.

Shame one @cursor_ai for this ridiculous dark pattern. They don't actually want to give you the option to opt out and hope you forget to do so.

Structured outputs 2.0: "Type-Constrained Code Generation with Language Models" [0]

Now that agents are cool, everyone is trying to build a durable workflow engine 👀