Update on the Critter Stack roadmap for March 2026, focusing on recent features, AI's impact, and future plans for Marten, Wolverine, and Polecat.
A daily tech link roundup covering .NET, AI, web dev, Windows tools, and software engineering news from March 18, 2026.
Explores implementing frozen segments and a new allocation strategy in a custom .NET Garbage Collector written in C#.
A daily tech link roundup covering .NET, Windows, web dev, AI, and software engineering news and tutorials.
Explores C# record inheritance and ToString behavior, showing how the 'sealed' modifier in C# 10 fixes unexpected output.
A developer documents the process of building a toy Unix shell from scratch, covering the REPL, command parsing, and execution.
A .NET developer's discovery of the DnsEndPoint class for simplifying network socket connections with hostnames.
Details the restructuring of the NetEscapades.EnumGenerators source generator package into three packages, aiming for a stable 1.0 release.
A minimal demo of implementing and using AI Agent Skills in .NET, including prompt, Python, and C# based skills.
htmxRazor 1.2.0 release adds toast notifications, pagination, and CSS cascade layers to simplify .NET web development with htmx.
Explores the potential addition of a FullJoin operator to LINQ in .NET 11, detailing the proposed API and its use cases.
Introduces ClockTray, a lightweight open-source C# utility to toggle Windows taskbar clock visibility with one click for productivity.
Explains the new C# 15 feature 'Collection Expression Arguments' for passing constructor parameters like capacity or comparers within collection initializers.
Explains interior pointers in .NET garbage collection and how to handle them in a custom GC's mark phase.
Explains the new 'with' operator syntax for passing arguments to collection expressions in the C# 15 preview.
Updates to the .NET Toolbox, a free, open-source collection of client-side tools for .NET developers, including new features like an Options Generator and SRP Analyzer.
Explains how to implement the GC handle marking phase for a custom .NET garbage collector written in C#, focusing on handle storage design.
A compiler engineer shares practical tips for generating C code, focusing on static inline functions and avoiding implicit integer conversions.
A guide to implementing a lease-based leader election pattern in C#/.NET for distributed systems to prevent accidental multi-leader scenarios.
Explains the Leader and Followers distributed system pattern with a practical .NET implementation to ensure single authority and prevent data corruption.
