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New comment by jongalloway2 in "Show HN: Perfect Bluetooth MIDI for Windows"

jongalloway2 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:53:45 +0000

Why so mean? You can look at all of the commits and see that the same dev who has been writing these drivers and apps pretty much single handedly has been making commits on the site for the past few years. https://github.com/microsoft/MIDI/commits/main/docs

You can even PR fixes if you want to show off your web dev skills.

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing"

jongalloway2 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:00:48 +0000

I've been doing this lately, building a Godot game with Copilot CLI. I'm using Godot MCP Pro which can automate interactions and screenshots, and have the whole game script in a markdown doc. I was happily surprised when I asked for a walkthrough and it all just worked, found and fixed some regressions while I was sleeping.

Java.evolved: Java has evolved. Your code can too

jongalloway2 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://javaevolved.github.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048934

Points: 67

# Comments: 36

We Synchronize .NET's Virtual Monorepo

jongalloway2 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/how-we-synchronize-dotnets-virtual-monorepo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46591797

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks"

jongalloway2 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:24:10 +0000

dotnet build

https://tonybaloney.github.io/CSnakes/getting-started/#build...

What's with the "just copy it" thing? Nobody does that, we use NuGet packages, GitHub Actions, SDK supported containers, reproducible cross-platform builds from command line, etc.

edit: I'm sure some people use file/copy, but you sure don't have to. That stopped being a common thing 10+ years ago with cross-platform .NET.

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Microsoft Dependency Has Risks"

jongalloway2 — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:16:39 +0000

CSnakes integrates Python into .NET apps - https://tonybaloney.github.io/CSnakes/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqoxHNH9Iwo shows adding an LLM

There are several ways to manage migrations depending on the team structure and dev practices: SQL scripts, command line, bundles (single-file executables), and in-app. The team recommends SQL scripts since they can be reviewed, tuned, and managed by a DBA but take your pick. https://learn.microsoft.com/ef/core/managing-schemas/migrati...

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Stay Gold, America"

jongalloway2 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:38:36 +0000

The post specifically calls out wealth concentration (e.g. becoming wealthier than one's fellows) as a major problem, and the donations are focused on working against that. Review the list of dentations, as you may have missed that these are organizations that help people in need rather than, say, recent examples of billionaires buying votes.

New comment by jongalloway2 in ".NET Blazor"

jongalloway2 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:19:13 +0000

Presentation from .NET Conf 2023 last week with some of the new stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1weyWS_pL0

.NET Aspire: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8

jongalloway2 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:08:53 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-aspire-simplifying-cloud-native-development-with-dotnet-8/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38265088

Points: 30

# Comments: 4

Audacity 3.4

jongalloway2 — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:14:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.audacityteam.org/blog/audacity-3-4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38122396

Points: 231

# Comments: 119

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Understanding the .NET ecosystem: The evolution of .NET into .NET 7"

jongalloway2 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:03:36 +0000

Install size depends on the features you pick when you install. Web / service / library development is small, desktop / mobile / C++ gets bigger as the toolchains + sdks + emulators are big. If your VS install is 30 GB and that's a problem, run the installer, click modify, and uncheck stuff you're not using. A lot of devs check off everything "just in case" but since you can add other features when you need them, it's better to start with what you know you'll use.

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Arm64 Visual Studio – Visual Studio Blog"

jongalloway2 — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 18:45:52 +0000

Visual Studio for Mac has run natively on M1 (without Rosetta) since the May 22 release of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac v17.0 - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-20...

The installer is a separate binary and currently still requires Rosetta. There's an update due out very soon (a few weeks) that will remove the Rosetta requirement. The team prioritized getting the application fully native before the installer since you spend a lot more time running the app than the installer.

Also it's important to know that Visual Studio for Mac isn't the exact same application as Visual Studio (Windows). Visual Studio is 25 years old and has some Windows specific features that don't make sense on macOS. Also, Visual Studio for Mac is optimized to integrate with macOS features (e.g. accessibility and themeing). There's a lot of code shared between the editor, project system, debuggers, etc., and we try to balance making them as similar as possible while following the macOS app guidelines and conventions.

Disclaimer: I'm on the .NET team at Microsoft, and work with the Visual Studio for Mac team a lot.

New comment by jongalloway2 in "DTrace-on-Windows"

jongalloway2 — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 19:42:12 +0000

Blog post with more info (2019): https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-intern...

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Uno platform: Build single-codebase applications across all platforms"

jongalloway2 — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 16:28:12 +0000

There is the Blazor Hybrid option with .NET MAUI. You write your UI using Razor (HTML + C#) and can use native controls and features when needed. As a .NET dev who prefers HTML to XAML, this feels more natural to me for a lot of apps.

https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/blazor/hybrid/tutoria...

New comment by jongalloway2 in "The Mesozoic terminated in boreal spring"

jongalloway2 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:33:40 +0000

There's a really clear minute summary video by the first author on this paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdshml5515o

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Microsoft Exchange stops passing mail due to bug on 1/1/22"

jongalloway2 — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 20:37:04 +0000

F# has Units of Measure: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe...

There are libraries that implement this concept in other programming languages (C++, Java, C#, etc.)

New comment by jongalloway2 in ".NET 6 Released"

jongalloway2 — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 17:44:43 +0000

For high level, you can start at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/ which has links to learning resources for different topics.

There's also a 40 page e-book ".NET for Java developers" here: https://aka.ms/dotnet-forjavadevs

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Vscode.dev"

jongalloway2 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 00:47:23 +0000

A little oversimplified - Visual Studio Community can be used to develop commercial software, with restrictions to (summarizing) 5 conccurrent users in non-enterprise organizations. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/mlt031819/

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Performance Improvements in .NET 6"

jongalloway2 — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 20:06:04 +0000

Thanks for letting me know, I'll check in with friends in docs and try to get this sorted out. Sorry for the frustration.

New comment by jongalloway2 in "Performance Improvements in .NET 6"

jongalloway2 — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 05:09:49 +0000

Hi, I'm on the .NET community team. Here's what we see as the happy path for .NET:

- .NET website (https://dot.net) - High level info on different workloads, 5 minute in-browser tutorials, links to live shows and community

- MS Learn (https://aka.ms/mslearn-dotnet) - Interactive tutorials with learning paths built from 30ish minute learning tutorials

- Docs (https://aka.ms/msdocs-dotnet) - More in-depth documentation on specific tasks and features, e.g. API documentation, performance optimization, security guidance, etc.

While you can go directly to any of them, the dot.net site will link you to Learn modules that will link you to docs, so hopefully you can start on the dot.net site and it will help you find the right place.

One thing I really like (and I'm totally biased because I've helped set it up) is https://live.dot.net. Those are all our live shows with the PM and dev teams. We've got a show every day of the week, and there's always really good Q&A in the chat.