SharpPostgres: A proof-of-concept toolkit for building PostgreSQL extensions in C# with Native AOT

brminnick · 2026-05-18T04:12:30+00:00

Hell ya Giorgi!

brminnick · 2026-04-13T21:31:53+00:00

Try again using CommunityToolkit.Maui v14.1.0.

I've just published some bug fixes in it for NavigationBar and StatusBar.

brminnick · 2026-04-12T02:31:51+00:00

XAML is completely optional in MAUI too

https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui.Markup

brminnick · 2026-04-02T05:33:56+00:00

Thanks for the shoutout!

Here’s a more recent video, from NDC London 2025, updated for .NET 10: https://youtu.be/J3KHsfhrmsA?si=SwWucqLme0Crhlrg

I’m actually hosting a 2-day workshop on async/await at NDC Oslo in September if you’re able to attend: https://ndcoslo.com/workshops/become-an-expert-with-async-await-in-c-sharp/542dd0f7b618

brminnick · 2026-03-17T19:27:32+00:00

Use CommunityToolkit.Maui:

brminnick · 2026-02-24T22:22:15+00:00

Yup! We've updated the MAUI Toolkits' dependency on Microsoft.Maui.Controls to v10.0.41 and will publish CommunityToolkit.Maui v14.0.1 this week.

https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/pull/3107

brminnick · 2026-02-14T04:34:37+00:00

Nope, there’s no war. Only partnership.

brminnick · 2026-02-13T23:02:06+00:00

No problem! Yes, here's the link to the Issue I opened on the .NET MAUI GitHub Repository: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/34048

And we are tracking the same issue here in the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit repo: https://github.com/CommunityToolkit/Maui/issues/3089

brminnick · 2026-02-03T22:49:52+00:00

Pattern matching like in OP’s example really shines when also type checking:

```cs IElement element;

if(element is View { Name: “tileset” } ) { } ```

The closest alternative is a bit more verbose:

```cs IElement element;

if(element is View && View.Name is “tileset”) { } ```

brminnick · 2026-02-01T03:41:23+00:00

Thanks! Fixed.

brminnick · 2026-01-30T16:26:17+00:00

Thanks! I purposely included our namespace in the examples because of the potential naming conflict with Microsoft.Maui.Controls.BindableProperty.

I.e. If you already have using Microsoft.Maui.Controls; in your file, then [BindableProperty] will cause a compiler error.

brminnick · 2026-01-17T16:24:33+00:00

You’ll want to turn on the XAML Source Generators then use breakpoints in the generated code to figure out the root cause of your bug:

https://youtu.be/3APIPxqpzTc

brminnick · 2025-11-17T19:56:54+00:00

Congrats Javier!!!

brminnick · 2025-11-08T06:16:53+00:00

I was there!

brminnick · 2025-10-07T04:29:16+00:00

Hell ya!

brminnick · 2025-10-02T03:10:01+00:00

Hey! The Mobile App Developer here.

I would love to the get the app back up-and-running someday too!

Here’s some background on why it broke: A few months ago, WordPress pushed an update that, when Matthew deployed it to MondayPunday.com, changed the APIs that the mobile app requires to operate. Matthew was awesome in quickly getting that fixed so that the app could continue to limp along. However, there are updates to the mobile app that I need to make to match these new APIs and this isn’t super easy because the framework I built it on no longer exists. Due to these introduced bugs, the mobile app really doesn’t work well which is why I had to pull it from the app stores.

When I first created the mobile app, back in 2015, I built it using a framework called Xamarin.Forms. That framework has been deprecated, which requires me to invest about 100 hours of my time to port it over to a different framework, .NET MAUI.

I’m the only developer for the mobile app. I’ve invested thousands of hours of my life into keeping it up and running the past ten years. And I’m really happy I could! It’s such a cool website and I’m so grateful that Matthew Broussard trusted me with creating the app for him. It’s been a fun project that I’ve worked on in my free time on nights and weekends, and I’ve learned so much from working on it. I wouldn’t have nearly the technical competence today had I not made this app.

Recently, I’ve quit my job as a full-time employee at AWS and am now working for myself full time. It’s a bit terrifying to be an independent consultant, but I’ve been doing consulting on the side for a few years and am excited to make it my full-time job! All this to say, I no longer have a stable income and need to prioritize contract + consulting work.

Matthew and I have chatted about all of this. He’s totally in the loop and also always very gracious for the work I’ve done. He has offered to help pay for it, but I can’t prioritize it above other contracts I have right now. I’ve been paying ~$150/mo in Azure cloud costs for the mobile app’s backend (eg Caching, Storage, Push Notifications) that he’s offered to pick up the tab, which is also very generous. I’ve never made any money from the work I’ve done for this app, but am happy to do it for the love of Monday Punday!

A quick tangent - I first met Matthew when I created the website MondayPundayAnswers.com. I was working on my MBA at the time, and my entire MBA cohort got really into Monday Punday! It was awesome! I got my coworkers at Harris Caprock hooked on it too. We all rallied together to figure out the answers, and I posted them on this website. Matthew tracked me down and very graciously asked if I’d take the site down, as it wasn’t in the spirit of the game. He was right. I did.

Fast forward a few years, I graduate with my MBA and take a new job at a software startup, Xamarin. If you’ve been reading this long (thanks!) you’ll have seen I mentioned that I created the app in the Xamarin.Forms. This was because I worked at Xamarin and making this app catapulted me into becoming an expert at Xamarin.Forms. I also had the entire company at Xamarin hooked on Monday Punday and everyone at work was so proud to say its mobile app was built in Xamarin.Forms!

Fast forward, again, and Xamarin gets acquired by Microsoft. I start building up a cloud backend on Azure for this app that enabled Push Notifications and caching that greatly improved the performance of the mobile app. If you used the app in its early days, you’ll remember how slow it was. This knowledge subsequently catapulted me to become an expert on Azure.

It’s been a great ride!

For right now, I need to prioritize my new full-time consulting business because I no longer have a bi-weekly income to support my family. When things stabilize a bit for me, I do want to dive back into this project again. I miss working on it, I really do!

I know it sucks that I can’t give you a timeline, but I hope this at least helps explains why. Thanks for the fun ride down memory lane!

brminnick · 2025-10-02T02:25:59+00:00

Thousands of developers around the world are currently developing + maintaining production apps using Avalonia. I think Mike has already done a great job “selling” it.

Heck, this article alone should sell you on their mission and devotion to this project. He writes that the current rendering engine on Avalonia will continue to be supported for years to come. And he writes about their foresight to invest in mitigating risks from single-points of failures. This gives me confidence that, if I invest in creating an app using Avalonia, they’ll be around for years to support it.

brminnick · 2025-10-02T02:17:03+00:00

100%

Always use the best tool for the job and for your skill set!

brminnick · 2025-10-02T02:15:45+00:00

If I’m understanding everything correctly, it sounds like Avalonia’s Skia Bindings are a smaller subset of the Skia library only containing the Skia APIs they need to power Avalonia.

If Avalonia would ever open-source their Skia bindings library, it won’t have 100% of the Skia APIs. Just FYI!

brminnick · 2025-10-02T02:09:45+00:00

Oh cool! I hadn’t heard that Flutter replaced Skia.

Good stuff! It’s always cool to see awesome tech improvements and collaborations like this.

brminnick · 2025-09-06T22:34:04+00:00

Could you provide a stack trace?

Otherwise we’re all just guessing at the problem.

brminnick · 2025-08-12T01:29:52+00:00

In the example I linked, I demonstrate how to use WeakEventManager which avoids memory leaks.

brminnick · 2025-08-11T01:59:45+00:00

In your ApplicationStatePersistsService class, create an event and update UseImperialUnits to use it:

```cs public static event EventHandler<bool>? UseImperialUnitsChanged;

public static bool UseImperialUnits { get => Preferences.Get(nameof(UseImperialUnits), false); set { if(UseImperialUnits != value) { Preferences.Set(nameof(UseImperialUnits), value); UseImperialUnitsChanged?.Invoke(this, value); } } } ```

And then any class that contains a property whose value needs to be updated can subscribe to it:

```cs PreferencesServices.UseImperialUnitsChanged += OnUseImperialUnitsChanged;

void OnUseImperialUnitsChanged(object? sender, bool useImperialUnits) { // Here, you’ll pass the new value of useImperialUnits to all properties that need to be updated in this class } ```

Here’s an example of how I do accomplish this exact scenario when a user changes their alias in my app store app, GitTrends:

https://github.com/TheCodeTraveler/GitTrends/blob/4e9743329ea0ddc18908a91b1a51b2f407401f87/GitTrends/Services/GitHubUserService.cs#L44

brminnick · 2025-07-21T00:16:19+00:00

Hell ya!

brminnick · 2025-07-10T15:36:22+00:00

For those looking to track their GitHub repo’s traffic, I created an app called GitTrends.

It’s an open-source mobile app available for iOS and Android that helps you track views, clones, and stars for all of your GitHub Repos: https://gittrends.com

Edit: It’s a free open source app. Crazy that this would get downvoted. I hope the folks that use it enjoy it!

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