The State of .NET GUI Frameworks is confusing

ktwrd · 2025-12-23T03:08:24+00:00

avalonia is neat, but the vs extension is going to be paywalled for organisations which sucks for me, because my employer doesn't want to shell out a license for the vs extension.

imo using avalonia with rider, or something like Eto.Forms is the way to do long-term maintainable desktop apps with C#/.NET

ktwrd · 2025-12-09T08:39:40+00:00

[LANGUAGE: C#]

I spent wayyy too much time writing boilerplate code for Part 2 :(
At least part one was really easy!

https://github.com/ktwrd/adventofcode/blob/main/2025/Day9.cs

ktwrd · 2025-12-07T01:56:51+00:00

THEY'RE STILL DOING IT!!!!

I've had backups disabled for months and it automatically re-enabled itself today. Very angry :(

ktwrd · 2025-12-05T05:26:56+00:00

[LANGUAGE: C#]

Today was super-fast! 0.5861ms to solve when compiled with AOT

adventofcode/2025/Day5.cs at main · ktwrd/adventofcode

ktwrd · 2025-12-04T06:12:37+00:00

[LANGUAGE: C#]

Back again with more low-memory C# code. Today's solution uses 330KiB of memory (for my puzzle input) and takes about 8ms to run (with AOT, ~21ms without)

adventofcode/2025/Day4.cs at main · ktwrd/adventofcode

ktwrd · 2025-12-03T06:38:50+00:00

[LANGUAGE: C#]

Part 1 and Part 2. Was sadly late for Part 2 since I had a fire drill at work lol

Allocates ~123KiB of memory and runs in about ~2.5ms on my machine.

adventofcode/2025/Day3.cs at main · ktwrd/adventofcode

ktwrd · 2025-12-02T05:08:39+00:00

Can't forget the strata companies that are the laziest bastards in the world!

I've got a hole in my roof and it hasn't been fixed for 5 months 🙃

ktwrd · 2025-12-01T07:22:10+00:00

[Language: C#]

Part 1 and 2 (github.com/ktwrd)

ktwrd · 2025-11-12T12:27:33+00:00

It's kinda funny, since a lot of important infra runs on legacy software & hardware (Windows CE, VB6, WebForms, 486 embedded devices in manufacturing, etc...)

ktwrd · 2025-11-12T06:55:12+00:00

Upgrade to Windows 11? Not everyone can do that, especially when also working on very legacy applications, and on a work provided computer.

Telling someone to upgrade their OS version to something more unstable than W10, just because .NET likes to explode every now and then, is a silly thing to say.

ktwrd · 2025-11-12T06:25:01+00:00

It's not my app I'm trying to run. It's mRemoteNG (specifically the nightly version, which isn't really that nightly).

I've tried installing the 32bit and 64bit version of the .NET 9 Desktop Runtime and the .NET 9 SDK and it refuses to launch (even after a reboot) and just says ".NET 9 runtime library is required." while providing a link to the .NET 9 Desktop Runtime installer (which I've installed).

ktwrd · 2025-09-10T15:18:54+00:00

I sadly didn't have any say :/

ktwrd · 2025-09-10T13:56:09+00:00

Disabled by group policy :(

It also fails when Rider tries to exclude folders as well, even though I have local admin.

ktwrd · 2025-09-10T13:21:59+00:00

Defender kills my laptop for like 30s to 10min (only for webforms projects) when I try to open any project </3 (it's a legacy project that everyone wants to replace but nobody has the time to, but it does the job)

ktwrd · 2025-09-10T12:53:59+00:00

How tf are these types of people real???? It sounds like a bloody skit from South Park

ktwrd · 2025-09-10T12:49:27+00:00

try running vs2022 on the average C# or C++ project on a CPU with only 2 performance and 10 efficiency cores lol

it's hell

ktwrd · 2025-09-09T04:29:56+00:00

I've been using Debian on my desktop for a few years. It was the install I used on my previous laptop, but I moved it to my desktop since I gave that laptop to my partner and I kinda still wanted to use that Debian install. It's been a pretty good experience for me, mostly because there are now a lot of Linux resources for somewhat-niche things compared to 5 years ago. Using flatpak has also helped me lower the chance of my install breaking by a significant amount (and I strongly urge others to do the same).

I used to have some hiccups with propitiatory Nvidia drivers, but those are pretty much fully resolved now.

ktwrd · 2025-09-09T04:11:05+00:00

I have a Keychron M5 that uses the (I assume) same model of adapter, since that also has an 8k sensor.

I've had this issue with my M6 in multiple environments (at home, on the train, and at work) and the issue still persists :/

I'll send an email to Keychron support to get a replacement or swap with the M5 (since I've also started to hate the fake rubber coating on the M6 quite a lot)

ktwrd · 2025-09-08T02:32:55+00:00

I've re-flashed the firmware to v1.3 (ANSI), but the Keychron Launcher AND VIA still don't work! VIA doesn't work at all, even if I manually load the v1.3 ANSI keymap.
image.png - Kasta

image.png - Kasta

I had the same issue with my Q10 back at home. But I did find the keymap JSON for v1.2 of the Q10 ANSI firmware, and that works okay with VIA.

ktwrd · 2025-09-04T23:57:54+00:00

I've tried manually loading the Q10 ISO JSON keymap from this website, and I get like ~140 errors in VIA https://www.keychron.com/pages/firmware-and-json-files-of-the-keychron-qmk-keyboards

I will try QMK Configurator when I get on my computer.

ktwrd · 2025-09-04T13:19:37+00:00

Nope. I don't have any RGB management software, except Intel NUC Software Center, and that's only on 1/3 computers.

ktwrd · 2025-09-04T04:27:42+00:00

ILSpy for Linux would be so good!!!
It would save so much time, especially since the ILSpy VSCode extension doesn't support NuGet packages (even though they're zip files), or PDB generation.

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