Pavel Osadchuk

If you think Microsoft breaking Windows is a new thing - think again🤭 They've killed their own widget platform 6 times in 30 years. Each one died from a different spectacular failure. But the last iteration might actually be done right Read the full history: xakpc.dev/windows-widg...

apparently most current LLMs suck in C# it figures

I'm almost at the point where I could use my own LLM chat app to develop my own LLM chat app

Today I decommissioned the last piece of my late startup This .NET Framework 4 web app, hosted on Azure, worked for 8 years total, and the last 5 almost by itself Now, when the last user no longer need it, it can finally go to rest. Thanks for all your work, small app 🫡

Why does copilot sometimes suck? Here's example N+1: I simply asked it to add docs. `inheritdoc` is OK, but what's with this `min` method that doesn't even exist in C#?

As soon as I expanded my ChatGPT subscription, I set myself a recurrent task So far it's not bad, so I'll create more 'summarize news' tasks

The same code was produced by ChatGPT o3-mini (not high) and Claude 3.5 Sonnet Both produced the result after 2-3 steps of dialog with clarifications

Let me try some LLM clients from windows store Oh, okay...

Instead of going for a walk, I'll add shallow support for ollama. I'll regret it later, but for now it's quite fun

And before I wrap for a day, some funny shit Because why not, it's my app in the end

You probably have around 10GB of RAM and most likely a GPU of some kind on your windows machine. Your chats with LLMs should NOT take several seconds to load couple messages. This is the speed we need 🎞👀 (forgot to shut off some BGM I was listening to while coding, so enjoy)

You know your project is good👌 when you install Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting NuGet to it

Test your app with proper prompts

Starting to look like an actual app

Enterprise grind is done for this week; back to building desktop apps

The R1 model is funny to follow through all of that But wait! But wait! But wait, there is more

I kinda gave up on 🦋 lately, but I haven't given up on building stuff. Here is an early version of a Windows app (the ugliest one): an LLM app outperforming both Copilot and ChatGPT native apps in speed on the same 4o-mini model. I might even ship it soon with BYOK or with some kind of sub

A couple of TRAXX P160 AC2

Day spent.. interesting

Now that's a remarkable achievement /s

Danube is marvelous

This is new. Copilot isn't that useful anyway, but having limits on what it can do because "changes are public" makes it even worse

AI replaced me Not entirely though. But this DevOps project no longer needs an architect because some AI deployment tool was chosen welp #enterprise-shit

not good

You shouldn't believe everything gen AI tells you

Haha, I deployed my app with the staging payment gateway flag and kept it this way for a couple of days #justshipit

The architecture team literally forced me to implement the meme (there might be a lesson here that "it depends")

9-5 grind is over. This week had 6 working days because the local working calendar is mad. But at least I was able to code quietly with zero calls and meetings

Or not. Official website says they not deliver here yet. Damn

Looks like I would have that Christmas present for myself. The only question do i want a gpu or not

Looks like I need to master Octopus Deploy this week cool, cool #enterprise-shit

A little lifehack (maybe?) for Chrome users. You could create separate Chrome profiles if you have different "areas" in your life, such as personal, work, side projects, etc. Each might have its own history, bookmarks, and stored logins/passwords

This actually works great for me too I wish I had more places to change though If there is non-coding work to be done, I could move to the nearest coffee shop

But first, I'm going for a walk

9-5 grind is over. It's time to plan a weekend grind (jk, I don't grind - I'm europoor) But anyway, I have a critical feature missing that makes my app hardly usable for me. That's what I want to fix this weekend. If it's good, it would also justify transitioning to a subscription model

I wanted to have a developer-focused place to write when I started At the time, the top picks were Hashnode and Dev.to, and Hashnode's editor was better I never even considered Substack TBH, it does not click to me as developer-focused

To celebrate Angular 19's release, the company management has decided to switch from Angular to React next year

Remember, when you pay for Hetzner with PayPal you need to push the pay button manually each month It does not do that automatically Lesson learned

I would say my programming language journey is bit boring 2011 C# (desktop winforms apps) 2014 C# (mobile Xamarin apps) 2015 C# (desktop winrt apps) 2016 C# (web api apps) 2019 C# (cloud-native apps, cloud functions) 2021 C# (web apps) 2024 C# (web apps again but with a bit of htmx) What's yours?

My company introduced mandatory gorilla tests to evaluate employees Out of curiosity, I passed the test 2 months before the deadline, it was meaningless as expected and stole 1h of my life My company canceled mandatory gorilla tests and they don't even give me the results meh

Added a butterfly to my personal page (damn, I love how this page looks)

The last free tool I made has generated the most visits so far (yeah, I know these numbers are statistically meaningless 🤡) #buildinpublic