Mastodawn

Just blogged: My NuGet packages hit a quarter-billion downloads. Just a number; I’m not sure it means much, but I turned it into a short note on NuGet, OSS, and the community.

https://www.devlead.se/posts/2026/2026-03-22-quarter-billion-nuget-downloads

#nuget #dotnet #oss

@devlead - Mattias Karlsson's Blog - A quarter of a billion NuGet downloads

A personal milestone and a short reflection on NuGet's history and what it has enabled for open source and the community

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 8

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 7

AREXX was written in 1987, 1990 AmigaOS included it by default with AmigaOS 2.0.
It allowed for inter process communication, applications could expose their internals for automation, essentially MCP four decades ago...

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 7

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 6

Nice, gone full OIDC for NuGet Gallery, all API keys deleted 👍 Took a while for over fifty packages.

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 6

Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️Mar 6

Dew Drop – March 6, 2026 (#4619)

https://www.alvinashcraft.com/2026/03/06/dew-drop-march-6-2026-4619/

#dotnet #vscode #ai #cloud #webdev #csharp #visualstudio #windowsdev #mobiledev #dewdrop

Dew Drop – March 6, 2026 (#4619) – Morning Dew by Alvin Ashcraft

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 5

One interesting thing about corporate reorgs is that, as a contributor, consumer, or consultant, you can find yourself in meetings where you know more about the history of their products than they do.🤷

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 3

Isaac Levin Mar 3

Had a great time chatting with Jeffrey Snover on Coffee & OSS today about all kinds of #tech topics. Video is live on YouTube and podcast is available wherever you find them. Take a look/listen and thanks!
https://www.coffeeandopensource.com/guest/jeffrey-snover.html

Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover is retired and spending his time as a Philosopher-Errant, attending Science & Technology conferences and giving public talks. Prior to retiring in 2026, he was a Distinguished Engineer at Google and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft where he was an AI Architect in Office, the Chief Architect for Windows Server Azure Stack. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell.<br /><br />Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional architect for the Management and Services Division, providing technical direction across Microsoft’s management technologies and products.<br /><br />Snover held 8 patents prior to joining Microsoft, and has registered over 30 patents since. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a variety of management and language topics.

Mattias Karlsson (he/him)Mar 3

Isaac Levin Mar 3

Live now on @[email protected], join me and Jeffrey Snover for a chat on #OSS and #tech live on @CoffeeAndOSS. Come say hello and join the conversation!
https://www.twitch.tv/isaacrlevin