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Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue.
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Strathweb. A free flowing tech monologue. is a personal blog at strathweb.com about programming. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Collectible assemblies in .NET Core 3.0”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Strathweb's .NET posts, covering serializers and formatters, collectible assemblies, OmniSharp on .NET 6, and fine-tuning Phi models with MLX. Commenters cite them as sources or demos.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Collectible assemblies in .NET Core 3.03 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-01-14
- Using Swift As General Purpose Scripting Language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-08
What Hacker News says?
You register your custom serializer at application startup... http://www.strathweb.com/2014/11/formatters-asp-net-mvc-6/ Your controller action looks like this: public List<Employee> Get() { ..... return employeeList; } Based on the serializers you have registered and the request Accept header, WebApi will serialize the list into JSON, XML, BSon (all built in) or a custom serializer that you add like Protocal Buffer…
Comment linking /2014/11/formatters-asp-net-mvc-6/
on “API Design Guide”Submitted Collectible assemblies in .NET Core 3.0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLast time I tried to seriously switch from Framework to Core, I was dismayed to find that Assemblies could not be unloaded from memory in Core after they were loaded. That was something that depended on the AppDomain functionality, which existed in Framework only. Thankfully, they finally got around to adding support in .NET 3.0 ( https://www.strathweb.com/2019/01/collectible-assemblies-in-... ).
Comment linking /2019/01/collectible-assemblies-in-net-core-3-0/
on “.NET 5”Submitted Using Swift As General Purpose Scripting Language as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> Omnisharp craps the bed way too often. FWIW I've had a much better experience with OmniSharp since they shipped a version running on .NET 6 (opt-in with the "omnisharp.useModernNet" setting). YMMV but I need to restart it much less now. https://www.strathweb.com/2022/01/hello-omnisharp-on-net-6-0...
Comment linking /2022/01/hello-omnisharp-on-net-6-0/
on “.NET Myths Dispelled”Submitted GPT-4o-mini can be simultaneously 20x cheaper and 2x more expensive than GPT-4o as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI get what you mean about wanting a visual app to experience yourself and be able to point others too. I recently followed this MLX tutorial for making a small model act well for home speaker automation/tool-use that I think could potentially be used to make a good all-in-one demo: https://www.strathweb.com/2025/01/fine-tuning-phi-models-wit... (it was fast and easy to do on a MacBook pro)
Comment linking /2025/01/fine-tuning-phi-models-with-mlx/
on “When Fine-Tuning Makes Sense: A Developer's Guide”Submitted Scripting a Web Server With C# and Roslyn as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis looks like a pretty cool demonstration of what we're talking about: https://www.strathweb.com/2019/01/collectible-assemblies-in-... See the section titled: Collecting a dynamically emitted assembly
Comment linking /2019/01/collectible-assemblies-in-net-core-3-0/
on “How Microsoft rewrote its C# compiler in C# and made it open source (2017)”Submitted No InternalsVisibleTo, no problem – bypassing C# visibility rules with Roslyn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionEarlier this year, I read a couple Swift scripting blogs and decided to create a script to generate my Go data structure for my little Swift "search engine": http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html Here's the script that generates the Go data structure: https://github.com/melling/SwiftResources/blob/master/bin/ge... Simply having a few scripts makes it easier to update my site. Btw, here are the other blogs: https:…
Comment linking /2014/06/using-swift-general-purpose-scripting-language/
on “Scripting in Swift”Submitted Introducing C# Script Runner for .NET Core and .NET CLI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source .NET – why should you care? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web API alternative – self hosting HTTP services in native C++ code as a story · 1 points
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