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@jdthewlis Used to do that back in flash days to block out levels renderhjs.net/pages/avengers… Did speed up level design significantly

random thought last night: can an image generator create a whole game level encoded in a PNG?? several hours later: yes it kinda can, pixel noise makes it quite glitchy though

@wieslawsoltes @UnoPlatform That looks promising

Building with coding agents produces vast amounts of code, that's why I decided to help me handle this and started building powerful Semantic Diff viewer app powered by @UnoPlatform making it capable and cross platform.

I was curious about how design apps differ in their edge / corner / rotate hit areas, so I wrote a script to move my mouse in a 50x50 grid and track what the cursor was.

@wieslawsoltes Like Visual Studios updates are now within days instead of quarterly - it's highly disruptive with noisy attention popups and I think not always with the best impact. Its one thing pushing frequently, its another pacing it "with" your audience/ customer in mind.

@wieslawsoltes I think this trend is going to change eventually again to find a middle ground. There is a lot of fomo right now and a race to the bottom to outdo perceived threads. As a user I don't want to always be overwhelmed with feature and update noise. Quality values will return.

“Software survival is now about velocity–specifically, keeping up with what your users want.” the game has changed forever

@relizarov Powershell always needs a Set-ExecutionPolicy -Scope Process -ExecutionPolicy Bypass cmd.exe just always executes without blocking. Syntax on both is not pretty or fun to remember. But ps has more dotnet eco system integration

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.

@buizerd2050 @ClintRutkas I tried looking up the settings like 3 times to disable it but even a google does not tell me how to disable the updates. And then the dark UX pattern says (postpone, update) but not a disable or don't ask again. Really infuriating.

@ClintRutkas Stop forcing Visual Studio 2026 updates. "Will update on close" gets on my nerves 😅 And I'm stupid enough to use 3 different Windows machines, with Visual Studio en SQL Management Studio. There are days I feel like I'm only updating my systems instead of working...

Dev using Windows? Love to chat with you

@ClintRutkas Winui3 was my first Windows GUI framework. It was very painful to onboard and learn the hard way to avoid UWP , AI SDK and more undercooked - often not compiling out of box. Also cert signing cost is a big turn off. Quality needs go up, less junk offerings

@mkristensen Love the icon

Bookmarks just got a huge upgrade in Visual Studio. Try it out today! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

@wieslawsoltes Thats where Word desperately needs to pivot towards: Markdown. A more style agnostic format with more intent on structure & emphasis i.e. bold, H1, H2 etc. Using Office Suite always feels like a fight with formatting - such clunky tools and waste of time. Nice work 👏

Word like rich text editing is nice for docx files in Avalonia/SkiaSharp but did you know it can now edit markdown files - this is just hot of press first try, lots more to do but its same editing model as Word one. Rich text editor control for Markdown anyone?

@wieslawsoltes This is great, in past desktop apps i used to embed a webview with handsontable.com + C# /js bind data and selections because available native controls are clunky or sluggish with very large visible data sets. Good stuff 👏

ProDataGrid spreadsheet mode (WIP) github.com/wieslawsoltes/…

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@nikpolale @PavanGayakwad @raycast For windows there is already Win + . To open the emoji panel. It is a tad sluggish but works out of the box.

@PavanGayakwad @raycast 1. ai on tab 2. shortcuts for each app(once you memorize it - it's very good) 3. emojis

I am honestly not getting the hype around @raycast. Can someone tell me top-3 outstanding features of this we miss when not using it?

@jeffteper Most of the official teams addons are often broken, inconsistent and slow. I.e. trying some out for the first time I often got stuck in some onboarding or login process. I usually stay away from Team addons because of the poor UX and incompleteness.

Exciting updates for Microsoft Planner at #MSIgnite. Transforming project management for the AI era with agents and Teams integration! techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/plannerbl…

@mrwcjoughin @beeradmoore @RickStrahl Found pricing page via google, seems to be hidden from their menu about.signpath.io/product/pricing

@beeradmoore @RickStrahl Is SignPath also monthly subscription like Azure’s option? And what is the pricing - the website doesn’t show it 😔

So I'm trying to check out Azure for Code Signing. This has to be the most insane UI train wreck I've ever seen. It's incredible how bad UI anything in Azure is in that it assumes you're intimately familiar with byzantine infrastructure of Azure Infrastructure and Microsoft Security. It's non-stop road blocks of gobbledy-gook with error messages that have no references on how to proceed and when you try to look it up that usually leads nowhere either. Even funnier is the supposed AI help at the top which is a farce. I have a feeling I likely don't qualify anyway but good luck finding that out beforehand.

@eliheuer Whats the binary size to load in the browser?

I got a WASM build of Bezy working in Chrome, so when it hits v1.0 this year you can use it in a web browser instead of as a Rust CLI application. I might put a pre 1.0 beta build on itch dot io when I get all the major issues fixed.

@SpaghetMeN0t Very nice 🙂

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@shango8700 @vkrajacic This is a really polished piece of UX and engineering. Really looking forward to future updates.

@vkrajacic The best file explorer out there! I'm never using anything else again.

File Pilot, a modern and fast file explorer, is officially out in public beta! filepilot.tech After 3 years of development and hard work, it's finally in your hands! A huge thank you to everyone who helped in any way throughout this journey!

@AvaloniaUI Prompts with a login / create account screen. Is there a way to see without an account?

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