Jon Douglas

I don't talk much about my personal life, but now is the time to bring awareness to something that I've been struggling with for over three years now. That thing is #longcovid.

@johnzabroski @kzu @nuget @joelverhagen idk, I’m not on nuget right now. maybe check with @brungarc to see if his jobs are fine or if nuget just blinked.

@kzu @nuget @joelverhagen @_JonDouglas Thoughts?

Something happened to @nuget around July 15 2025. Most package downloads stalled completely in trends:

Hey #dotnet - we on the .NET SDK team are all about making the `dotnet` CLI more capable and powerful over time. But how do you usually _get_ the `dotnet` CLI and other tooling? Today that answer is a _bunch_ of different ways. We have a plan to centralize these ways into ...

James brings incredible passion to each year. It’s a privilege to work alongside him.

This update to IntelliSense in Visual Studio by GitHub Copilot is significantly improving the accuracy and speed of which I write code. By @mika_dumont devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/b…

@WeihanLi4 is this a different month? feel free to DM me too. I have a recorded talk you can use from dotnetConf if wanted!

@_JonDouglas Hello Jon, we're organizing the .NET Conf China 2024 in Shanghai, China on Oct 14, 2024(China Standard Time), would you have some time to share NuGet info, either a live speech or recorded video is ok

Any #dotnet community podcasts that would like a guest talking about NuGet/ecosystem/etc? Would love to make time for a few podcasts if anyone would love to have me! Can talk about the last few years of efforts and the road ahead. DM me!

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@johnzabroski idk but file an issue? looks like a UI issue w/ a package that has network errors. #L499" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/NuGet/NuGet.Cl…

@_JonDouglas Why is this error not in my Errors List? If I go to the Package Manager tab, similarly *nothing* shows up with the word "error". Maybe it's under something else but I have 100s of dependencies and reading through the entire thing is like reading a Stephen King novel.

@DamianEdwards okay but you really gotta step up your wallpaper game

Home office has changed a bit in 11 years 🤣

@SimonCropp Security is a continuous journey, not a quick fix. It requires everyone in the ecosystem to be aware and drive change. The initial wave of awareness and adjustments will take time to fully resolve. Just like last year with top level vulns. There’s some blog coming soon.

@_JonDouglas my suggestion would be to solve it before this change lands #nuget-security-audits" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/c…

so much of my friction with MS nuget packages would be greatly mitigated if they just pro-actively updated their transitive refs to avoid CVEs.

@isaac_abraham @dotnet totally hear you. i think we can do so much more in many of these areas and simplify it for new users. we ran a .NET CLI survey recently which reaffirm your views too :)

@_JonDouglas @dotnet And yes, overhaul to unify and make them simpler would be welcome. This would also help to encourage people to actually use .NET more, especially those that are coming from a non-.NET background as well improving efficiency for the existing .NET community.

Please tell me this isn't true: @dotnet CLI can't update an existing NuGet package.

@isaac_abraham @dotnet 5. dotnet nuget why - exists now! 6. No - Proposal or dotnet add package again 7. dotnet list package --outdated (but not very intuitive) There’s still room for improvement. Some features could benefit from a rethink or even a complete overhaul to make them more user-friendly.

That's great to see. It's just unfortunate to also see that it's over 2 years old :-( Maybe a stupid question - how do people do this sort of thing today in the plain NuGet client world? Main functional requirements for a package manager (IMHO): 1. Add package (maintain transitive validity) 2. Remove package (maintain transitive validity) 3. Ensure repeatable package resolution 4. In .NET world - ensure consistency across projects 5. Easily understand transitive dependencies and the overall package graph 6. Update packages based on simple rules 7. Easily identify out of date packages / update options All easily accessible from the command line, ideally. I think NuGet - without relying on proprietary tools like VS - currently does the following: 1 - Yes, although resolving transitives to minimum just leads to extra work to get an "up-to-date" graph. 2 - Yes 3 - Yes, with lock files (optional, not on by default (?), and not easily human readable) 4 - Yes, with directory.props (optional, not on by default?) 5 - I don't think so? 6 - No? 7 - No?

@isaac_abraham @dotnet Also: github.com/NuGet/Home/pul… Which will audit for outdated and help ya update.

@isaac_abraham @dotnet You're right. We lack an update command and I have pitched one for awhile: github.com/NuGet/Home/pul… People may say you can just use the add package command again, but that's not intuitive at all. At least to me.

@DamianEdwards sacrifices!

@_JonDouglas Take my hands off the keyboard/mouse!!!?!?

Is there still no easy way to see the current time including seconds on demand in Windows 11? I don't need seconds in the tray clock, but I want to be able to see them on demand, e.g. hover, click, etc.

@ChetHusk @range_marten @sergey_tihon @nikolchekolev list only lists. there is two proposed commands for updates here: github.com/NuGet/Home/pul… github.com/NuGet/Home/pul…

@range_marten @sergey_tihon cc @_JonDouglas @nikolchekolev

Wow, somehow just discovered that dotnet-outdated exist github.com/dotnet-outdate…

@shanselman I found that PrivateGPT can do this decently: github.com/zylon-ai/priva… But it does get capped at a large number of papers and the RAG implementation really only cares about finding relevant chunks. Still looking for a better solution although this does a decent job.

@shanselman Idk yet but I’m doing this for one of my AI in healthcare projects this Fall. Planning to use lang chain, huggingface embeddings, and ollama Have 2k papers and will see how far I get locally. Same idea but for a different medical condition. Will send you it if it works well

What’s the easiest way to make a chatbot that I can feed 50 to 60 gigs of PDFs into and then have a grounded conversation about roughly 6000 medical papers? Where is the relatively inexpensive “throw gigs into a folder and get RAG” solution? #AI