Profile avatar
simoncropp.bsky.social
117 posts 238 followers 132 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter
Posts 23 Comments 27

Life Update ▶️I'm back on the job market ◀️ Looking for: - backend engineering role - nyc hybrid preferred, but willing to do full in office or strong remote culture

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Just curious, what’s the tariff on a $400 million jet from Qatar?

submitted 2 days ago • 1687 comments

Another fun performance PR for ImageSharp V4 which should add a nice boost on mobile. #dotnet SIMD has improved so much over the last few years! github.com/SixLabors/Im...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

this is going about as well as can be expected github.com/dotnet/docs/...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Wow. FluentValidation dropped support for netclassic Now only supports net8 and up github.com/FluentValida... If you are still on netclassic, you should already have a plan in palce to move to netcore

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Microsoft.Data.SqlClient is such a tire fire of a package lol

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

if anyone wants to read about the root cause github.com/dotnet/SqlCl...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Some minor perf improvement to Replicant github.com/SimonCropp/R...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I added another 10 APIs to Polyfill. for some of the System.Convert APIs github.com/SimonCropp/P...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I added some docs about the input and output definitions in my little Pandoc wrapper github.com/SimonCropp/P... github.com/SimonCropp/P...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Feel like the President being obviously bribed in ways that violate the constitution should be a bigger deal.

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

I always have to remind myself what do I need to do to publish MSBuild packages. I think I compiled a proper way of doing it. Anyone with other suggestions? #dotnet #msbuild github.com/fiseni/Fuser...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Unless you're an infrastructure engineer, if you feel the urge to build YAML pipeline templates or Bicep modules—stop! YAML and Bicep aren’t programming languages. Sure, with some plugins, you might get syntax highlighting (cont'd)

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I did another open-source .NET thing. Check it out at github.com/dennisdoomen... #pathbuilding #foss #fluentapis #dotnet #csharp

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Recently released: Updates to the SqlPackage and the DacFx ecosystem - JSON and VECTOR data types support, parquet support (still in progress), unpack and compare. buff.ly/gqziNOk #dotnet #sqlserver

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

New extension to Verify to allow snapshot testing of excel files github.com/VerifyTests/... heavy lifting done by @0xced.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I have to spec a laptop for an incoming employee and so I'm once again pissed that #Dell butchered their #XPS lineup so badly that I can't make it my easy default for a high-end professional dev machine. (1/2)

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Software will never be free until the bills of every maintainer are paid by every corporation that profits from their work.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I plan on removing support for hashing parameters in Verify github.com/VerifyTests/... if you use this feature please speak up on the PR #dotnet

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Verify.Avalonia now has an option to render both Light and Dark theme variant when taking snapshots github.com/VerifyTests/...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What tools you miss, or you wish existed in the .NET ecosystem? I feel for working on something new. It can be arbitrarily complex. Hit me 🙂 #dotnet

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I tweaked how Verify handles HttpContext. So now Alba integration is a little more succinct. Just pass the Alba scenario to Verify jasperfx.github.io/alba/guide/s...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

so i have often wondered if removing code support from a nuget should only be done in a major version bump when that thing u r removing is out of support seems the answer from MS is “nope can be done in a minor” github.com/dotnet/SqlCl...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment