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Microsoft MVP, Creator of @SixLabors ImageSharp, ImageProcessor, and @ResponsiveBP , Web developer, Lifter of heavy weights, Whisky connoisseur.
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ImageSharp has over 43.5 million Nuget downloads and only 37 open issues in the issue tracker (soon to be 36).
I'm pretty proud of the quality of the software. 😇
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Major milestone today shipping
#ImageSharp
It's my personal Sistine Chapel and took about the same amount of time to do.
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#ImageSharp
passed 6 million downloads this weekend and I'm a lot less happy about it than I probably should be.
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Still can’t believe my father in law and I built this over the last year. It’s so totally kick ass. Best office I’ve ever had!
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I'm watching the
@dotnet
runtime team diagnose an issue in NET5 affecting ImageSharp and I can't help but think that the sheer wealth of knowledge made available by MS going open source is probably unrivalled in our industry.
It's honestly a privilege to observe.
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I’m pretty angry just now...
ImageSharp had its first CVE and it’s brought the worst people out of the woodwork asking me to back-port the fix on the old Apache version.
None of these people have ever contributed code or purchased licenses or given the slightest thought to…
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Was gonna write some C# today but realised I didn’t have enough MSSQL so gave up to do some Solutions Architecting instead. 🤡
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Here’s a positive to think about. Microsoft reversing a business decision and merging that community based PR to re-enable Hot Reload simply wouldn’t have happened a decade ago. That is undeniable progress.
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I’ve lost count recently how many times I’ve punched the air in happiness in discovering how easy something is in Core compared to classic Framework.
It is such a well architected system!
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Check out those gains!
@terrajobst
Can you please tell everyone around you to keep up the good work. You're all rocking it!
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Teams is awful software.
Poor UX
Poor performance
Poor functional implementation.
It's extraordinary that it has swiftly become the de facto tool in its space.
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It blows my mind how many developers are completely incapable of reading a readme file.
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C# has changed a lot. This code would be a horror show to read in the old days without Span<T> and Unsafe<T>
It's freaking great to be a
#DotNet
developer!
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Interesting thread on Auth. Almost every dev in the discussion seems to be having trouble. It’s easy to blame them but maybe there is a complexity/documentation problem.
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Very grateful for the support of every Microsoft employee who voted! This will go to great use funding development.
We're also able to highlight the first few projects that have been selected by our open source-contributing employees through the Microsoft FOSS Fund to receive $10,000 sponsorships...
@eslint
,
@rust_analyzer
, and ImageSharp created by
@James_M_South
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I’m taking some time off writing OSS code. I’m tired of entitlement, of lack of assistance, lack of support from the community. It’s making me utterly miserable. I make barely any money from license sales and have a super low contribution base. It’s a failure.
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Hello, James.
Our team of specialists reviewed your profile in details and decided that your current and past experience, according to your Resume and LinkedIn profile, does not match the requirements or locations for the Senior .NET Software Engineer
Erm… Ok 😔
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But it's not about money, it never was and never will be, it's about sustainability. I'm putting my hand up here and saying that I am burned out. I'm exhausted...
I've had to learn all this stuff to do it. I find it hard, I'm not that clever.
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I really wish Microsoft certs were not a thing; they are such a sham flooding the industry with worthless accolades.
A dev I had the misfortune to work with once is now an "Azure Solutions Architect Expert". He is positively dangerous through his lack of care/knowledge/ability.
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#dotnet
can let you write some really, really fast code. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 🚀
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Somebody literally just suggested I rename the primitives in ImageSharp - Color, Point, Rectangle, etc because they conflict with .NET MAUI Community Toolkit types.
Mate. ImageSharp was here first.
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My perfect little pudding is having both eyes operated on tomorrow to correct her squint.
I’m beyond nervous; I love this little girl more than anything in the world.
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Started building a castle for my daughter last night. It’s gonna be epic. 🙂
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Basing my open source work on
@dotnet
has been such a fantastic decision. As the underlying framework evolves I get many performance benefits for free and the means to implement further ones with few changes. Keep up the amazing work!
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Bloody hell! 16 million downloads of ImageSharp!
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Just realized ImageSharp has over 90 million downloads now. 92.1 million to be precise 😎.
So much more goodness to come.
These will be the best graphics libraries in the world, not just
#dotnet
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Whoever is responsible for the continual push of advertising within paid Microsoft products. PLEASE JUST STOP.
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Just got a recruiter email which talked about having experience with .NET 8.
@terrajobst
have you been holding out on me?
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Very disappointed to discover ImageSharp has been removed from the Microsoft docs as an alternative to System.Drawing.
The linked issues makes no reference as to why it was removed.
#dotnet
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I don't know who's to blame here Microsoft or individual developers, but Nullable Reference Types is a footgun.
I've seen so much code where the "fix" for poor design is simply slap '!' everywhere.
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I'd really like to know how the text editor in MSTeams passed user testing?
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Introducing Poppy Belle Jackson-South.
My Everything.
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Well that's a wonderful bit of news! Got my Microsoft MVP status renewed. 😊
It really does mean a lot to me.
#MVPBuzz
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I’m obviously supporting Docker’s choice to make big business pay if anyone’s interested.
More companies should pay for software. Since they were introduced in May 2020 I’ve only sold 64 ImageSharp support licenses. There’s been 2,242,803 NuGet package downloads in that period.
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My name is James and I haven't a clue how to navigate Azure Application Insights to find exception details.
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"I’d love to see ImageSharp becoming the de-facto imaging library for .NET Core someday. It’s one of the most exciting in-dev libraries I know about."
Quote from Reddit. 💪
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Things I wish C# could do.
Same method name different type parameter constraints
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My heart couldn't feel any bigger! :)
Little Miss Jackson-South 2.0 due for release January 2018
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Then you should get that huge ass Enterprise company to purchase a license.
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Developers first ever question on StackOverflow and it was downvoted twice in less than 1 minute. You wanna fix attitudes in dev industry? Start with that wretched hole.
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Super simple solution on Azure Devops (3 projects)
1m 17s to install latest .NET 6
1m 24s to build
1m 48s to install Npm package Azurite
8m 9s to test
1m 16s to publish
30s to deploy
Why are the build machines so underpowered?
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Urgh.... I think I've just found someone using ImageSharp to create NFTs. I should put something in the license. 🤮
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Are you fucking kidding me with this shit?
I’m working every night after I put my kid to bed on this stuff with almost no help. Fuck right off with these kinds of questions!! 😡
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Still as slow as a week in jail.
and here's how much faster the new Microsoft Teams client is compared to the old one
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Photos don’t really do it justice but I’ve finally finished painting the cardboard castle 🏰 I’ve built for my daughter.
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Thanks
@awscloud
for sponsoring
@SixLabors
with a $5k donation via
@github
sponsors!
Your support and appreciation are greatly appreciated!
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Someone sent me an email asking whether the license model for my software leads to sales because they're thinking of doing similar. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
19M downloads of the fucking thing and I've earned less than 1 month salary this year in license sales.
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It's such an absolute honour to have my Microsoft MVP award renewed for a 3rd year. Great to know I'm making a positive difference. 😁😁😁
Congratulations to all other MVP's new and renewed!
#MVPBuzz
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I'm a Microsoft MVP!!! Crying like a baby I'm so proud and overwhelmed. I'd really like to thank the community for supporting my OSS work.
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Barring disaster (don't jinx it you dickhead James!) I'm heading to the UK 6am tomorrow morning to see my wife and daughter. Gonna see this storm out there with them with the full support of my work.
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The best thing the EF Core team ever did was outputting the generated SQL to the VS Console when in debug. 😍
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The .NET community really is the worst of the worst entitled douchebaggery. Seriously considering just deleting everything.
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Please help me spread some awareness of ImageSharp.Drawing. 2D drawing APIs for
#ImageSharp
. It would be great to get this completed and shipped but we'll need help doing so.
#dotnet
#oss
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Had the most magical day with my 3 year old daughter today playing and having fun in the sunshine. She told me I was her best friend 😍
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There are only 41 open issues in the ImageSharp repository.
That's pretty bloody good for a library with over 22 million downloads.
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A weeks worth of intrinsics work on
#ImageSharp
and we've jumped to 3rd on this comparison benchmark. The cool thing here is that we have plans that are guaranteed to chop a lot of processing time off the tested operation.
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I switched Visual Studio's default editor font to use Cascadia Code last month. I don't think I can switch back to Consolas again.
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As of .NET 6 the xplat story for System.Drawing is over.
ImageSharp is listed first as an alternative and while I (obviously) agree it should be first consideration that puts an incredibly small (5 active contributors) under a LOT of pressure.
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My Fonts and Drawing libraries have been out for 11 days now. A combined 17K downloads since then and not a single issue raised.
I'm quite happy with that!
#dotnet
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C# static interface types are the best. Whoever championed them has my eternal gratitude.
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Just discovered this
@Azure
naming conventions document.
Fantastic! Except that it's nearly impossible to rename anything in Azure 🤦♂️
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I'd like to encourage productive discussion on planned license changes for future Six Labors libraries.
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Ha nice! ImageSharp has reached the 13million downloads!
I'll take $1 for each one please 😜
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And ImageSharp already supports it!
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Why are so many professional developers so crap at raising issues.
“Why does ImageSharp do this with this image”
What image? Am I supposed to guess?
It’s embarrassing.
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Can someone at Microsoft please tell the people in their MSRC team that the way to contribute to Open Source is NOT to pester me with emails asking when something will be completed.
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I think I might actually hate most software developers.
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This is the PR of my life!
Introducing
#dotnet
Bidi + Text Shaping Support to
@SixLabors
Fonts
9 weeks of development (evenings and weekends)
207 files changed
24,518 lines of code added
1,627 lines of code removed
#oss
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Fuck Git LFS. We've somehow burned through 100GB bandwidth in a month with Github though people forking the SixLabors repos which I have to fucking pay for.
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I’M ONLY BACK HOME IN AUSTRALIA!!!! 🇦🇺
So relieved to be back in the correct hemisphere. I won’t be getting on a plane any time soon!
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A gentle reminder that because ImageSharp is awesome and written in managed code it’s not affected by the recent libwebp CVEs
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r/csharp had a discussion today on goto usage and it's the predictable dogmatic nonsense you'd expect.
What gives people the ability to speak so confidently about things they obviously know so little about? I question everything I think I know (hence no tech talks).
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An absolute privilege to be awarded again for the 4th year and to be part of this amazing community.
#MVPBuzz
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My six-year-old daughter is now getting homework.
I firmly believe that if a school cannot provide adequate education within the bounds of the school day, then they are doing a terrible job. Children should be able to relax at home.
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With V3 we'll be able to strip out a ton of code and complicated hacks. I expect to be able to produce something really special then with the greater freedom.
.NET will have the best 2D graphics libraries in the world. That's a promise.
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Been struggling a bit recently both physically and mentally with pretty severe burn out. This little darling makes it all better. 😍
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OK. This is super exciting!
The Scalar result is the timing for the ImageSharp V2 NormalSrcOver alpha composition method.
The bottom Scalar and Avx numbers are what I optimized them to at the weekend. The numbers on the right are tonights efforts.
That's a 13.9X improvement!!
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This is a great release! Proof that performant graphics libraries can be written in .NET
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I can't possibly stress how cool this is to get working. The
@SixLabors
Fonts RC will be able to render mixed LTR and RTL text with correct shaping.
#dotnet
#oss
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I’m a bit concerned over my ability to make ends meet over the next few months. So, if you have any ImageSharp based work you’d like me to consult on or develop please get in touch.
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I know this is pie in the sky but I wish MS would make a massive focus on slimming down the next version of Windows. An OS should be lean and fast and absolutely never ever get in the way of day-to-day operations.
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Now I obviously have a stake in the game so take this with a pinch of salt but I believe the
@dotnetfdn
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So I’m laying down a challenge to anyone from Microsoft (and other big companies using System.Drawing) who follow me. Contribute. Help me to complete any missing features in our Drawing and Font APIs so that we can continue to deliver a world class imaging solution for .NET
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