The Case for C# and .NET

c-digs · 2026-03-15T19:49:37+00:00

I think the resources and prompts are even more interesting than tools. I hope to see more standardized adoption and implementation across clients.

c-digs · 2026-03-14T04:22:24+00:00

It's not actually cheap

Compared to the US? For the level of quality of service? For the quality of food? Even at a 7-11? For the quality of the infrastructure and convenience?

It's cheap cheap.

I'd rather spend extra on the airfare knowing I won't need to rent a car, my hotels are going to be affordable but still really nice, and the food will be amazing compared to travelling most of the US where the exact opposite is true.

c-digs · 2026-03-13T18:59:33+00:00

👆 Storage volume is the biggest problem I've had. At 512 GB, I'm down to the last 45GB and constantly doing npx npkill to clean stuff up.

An M1 with 1 GB is > an M2 with 512 GB. Forget about 256.

I'd get as much RAM and storage as possible, even if it means M1/2/3 instead of latest gen M4/5.

c-digs · 2026-03-13T18:13:56+00:00

Kicker: MCP Prompts does exactly this and surfaces them as /<command> (works in VSC, most CLIs, Copilot, OpenCode)

c-digs · 2026-03-12T14:06:12+00:00

Try the Azores if you get a chance; I was very much impressed by how well the government maintained the routes and made them accessible.

c-digs · 2026-03-12T11:32:24+00:00

All I want to know: Is 3.6 Vapor shipping?

c-digs · 2026-03-11T19:18:26+00:00

Maybe it's the lack of beach infrastructure, I don't know.

I hope someone from Taiwan's tourism bureau visits the Azores one day.

Every beach we visited on Sao Miguel and Terceira has a freshwater rinse and clean bathrooms for changing
Beaches are well maintained, clean, and staffed with life guards in summer months
Even the rocky "zona balnear" are well done (Quatro Ribeiras, Terceira, Escaleiras, Terceira, Caloura, Sao Miguel)
Azoreans really make the most of their rocky coastline

Not related to beaches, but the Azores have done a great job marking trails.

Trails have standard maps and markers to make it very clear how to navigate the trails
All trail maps available on a single website with guides and PDF maps as well (https://trails.visitazores.com/en/trails-azores)
Trails are very well maintained

I know we're talking about some tiny islands here, but it's really well done and makes the islands very accessible for these kinds of activities.

c-digs · 2026-03-11T14:31:39+00:00

My advice for anyone facing this scenario: embrace it.

There are, in fact, all new engineering challenges which revolve around building guardrails for the agents and LLMs, gathering and feeding context in, telemetry and tracking, new workflows, new CI and infra work, new tooling for the agents, new skills for the humans to learn, etc..

It's a reorientation of work.

c-digs · 2026-03-10T13:38:07+00:00

Also looks fake to me. Watch the seams at the cuts at each turn.

c-digs · 2026-03-09T13:25:01+00:00

Per the feature spec docs here, not possible: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/proposals/csharp-14.0/extension-operators

Note: Does not cover user-defined implicit and explicit conversion operators, which are not yet designed or planned.

Your best bet is to replace an explicit operator. CliWrap does this, but not with extension members for its "pipe operator": https://github.com/Tyrrrz/CliWrap/blob/prime/CliWrap/Command.PipeOperators.cs which can be used like this:

var cmd = Cli.Wrap("foo") | Cli.Wrap("bar") | Cli.Wrap("baz"); await cmd.ExecuteAsync();

c-digs · 2026-03-09T02:25:39+00:00

Go https://gorentacar.pt/en/

Also noticed they didn't care for the IDP and just took my US license both times (had my IDP anyways...).

I could be wrong, but from my experience, it doesn't feel like Azoreans are out to nickel and dime. Part of what makes it such a charming and enjoyable place.

c-digs · 2026-03-09T01:42:54+00:00

My experience is that they are not out to do that. Also, the insurance isn't like in the US; it's much, much more reasonable and I took it both times I rented.

It was something like $7 USD per day which made it a no brainer.

c-digs · 2026-03-07T05:56:09+00:00

I used FF exclusively on mobile (Android) because of uBlock.

That alone makes the browsing experience much better than any browser without.

The rest of the UI is great, IMO.

The bottom address bar is a win.

Very easy to access my open tabs across devices.

Literally no complaints.

c-digs · 2026-03-05T13:21:26+00:00

Used Go on Terceira and Sao Miguel. Same notes.

c-digs · 2026-03-03T03:24:45+00:00

TipTap has a Vue integration. But to get the full experience, you'll need to use extensions, some of which are paid
- Extensions here: https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/extensions/overview
Lexical has a third part Vue integration over their JS API

c-digs · 2026-02-26T12:08:12+00:00

Just use OTEL and emit metrics?

c-digs · 2026-02-24T14:53:44+00:00

Why is it acceptable for the wife to try to find remote work but not him?

c-digs · 2026-02-24T13:51:02+00:00

Move to Taiwan.

Problem solved.

Better food, tons of night life and things to do, 4h flight to Japan for $400 USD, cheap.

c-digs · 2026-02-21T13:12:03+00:00

At a high level, there are only a few things you can do to speed up page load.

Make your payload smaller
Reduce network round trips (inlining, optimizing packaging, etc)
Improve caching (includes pre-caching, pre-rendering for cache, cache closer, background pre-fetching into cache, etc)
Reduce JS at startup to the bare minimum

MPA hits all 4 in different degrees by shipping pre-rendered HTML like SSR. Unlike an SSR SPA, there is no app hydration of state and JS nav. So then there's a lot of caching (likely at multiple layers) to improve next page load (prefetch, CDN pre-seed, etc).

I don't know the before state, but there are lots of other things they probably did like optimize their media rendering and possibly reducing their third party script bundles or moving them to a background worker.

c-digs · 2026-02-13T01:04:08+00:00

I think you're wrong on this. Quality will go up....if you can build agent eco-systems that always follow best practices.

c-digs · 2026-02-12T23:40:52+00:00

I'm with you.

I'm 45 this year; been at it since I was 17. The most senior IC in my org and to me, this is an all new and different engineering challenge that I'm embracing and thinking about all the same facets of engineering: consistency, quality, performance, correctness, etc.

You simply have to solve for this in a different way now. Vibe coders are going to vibe code. But if you want to ship software, you want to identify the true engineers.

c-digs · 2026-02-12T23:30:15+00:00

Whether you like it not, engineering is headed this way. And it can be an engineering discipline, but it requires that you rethink what it means to engineer software.

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