At Build 2023 back in June, Microsoft announced a new form of storage volume for Windows 11: Dev Drive. In October 2023, support for Dev Drive was shipped as a Windows Update and now available to anyone using the latest version of Windows 11.[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“npm_config_cache”, “$DevDrive\Packages\npm_cache”, “User”)[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“NUGET_PACKAGES”, “$DevDrive\Packages.nuget\packages”, “User”)[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVaria...| Maarten Balliauw {blog}
When writing libraries and frameworks that others are using, it’s sometimes hard to convey that a given API is still considered “experimental”.For example, you may want to iterate on how to work with part of the code base with the freedom to break things, while still allowing others to consume that code if they are okay with that.| Maarten Balliauw {blog}
Discriminated unions have been a long-standing request for C#. While F# users have had discriminated unions for years, C# developers will have to wait a bit longer.| Maarten Balliauw {blog}
For the past few months, a lot of news in tech as well as mainstream media has been around ChatGPT, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) product by the folks at OpenAI.ChatGPT is a Large Language Model (LLM) that is fine-tuned for conversation. While undervaluing the technology with this statement, it’s a smart-looking chat bot that you can ask questions about a variety of domains.| Maarten Balliauw {blog}