john smith

@solrevdev

C# and .NET developer in the UK. Microsoft certified, ex Head of Infrastructure. I build small .NET tools and write about AI-assisted coding.

Oxfordshire

john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 23
C# and .NET being speedy and scaleable
Ben {chmark} Adams ⟠
@ben_a_adams
Sep 22
C#/.NET being pushed hard running infrastructure at Ethereum's scale. Nethermind runs on ~3k nodes and accounts for ~33% of staked nodes - supporting a ~$334B native asset, ~$146B of stablecoins and ~$54B deposited in DeFi apps. Nethermind 2.0 has some amazing performance work
john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 23
Microsoft should dogfood C# and .NET a lot more than they do.
Dan Patrascu-Baba
@danpdc
Sep 22
Microsoft recently ported the GitHub Copilot runtime from TypeScript to Rust in roughly 4 months. The entire port was mostly guided by one single engineer and generated a token cost of around $120k. Here are few of my thoughts through my CTO lens. 1. Why Rust and not C#? With
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john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 4
Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra and Daybreak Blue 🙏🏼️
john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 4
Checking to see if I have GPT-6 Astra yet. Has anyone got access in the UK? (Ignoring those who had pre-announcement access.)
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john smith
@solrevdev
Sep 3
this!
Theo - t3.gg
@theo
Sep 3
fwiw, don't love that OpenAI "launches" aren't actually launches, and the real world availability date is an unknown amount of time down the line. We should all be able to play with this new model together right now, feels weird that only certain people have access.