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<h1 id="update-26.08.2026">Update 26.08.2026<a title="#update-26.08.2026" href="#update-26.08.2026"></a></h1> <p>As I’m tinkering more and more with Linux lately, I wanted to get Floaty running there as well.

<p>I love reading Hacker News, usually it’s one of the first things I do in the morning when I start browsing on my phone.

<p>Just shipped a new version - code is deployed, tests passed, and now, time to look at the diff from the last release.

<p>.NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid is great.

<p>You want to quickly test something, try out a new API, or just play with an idea.

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>Boom is a hackathon project to interact with LLMs in a visual node-based way, allowing branching conversations on an infinite canvas.

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>This post demonstrates how to connect a locally running MCP Server to a hosted LLM API using SignalR for communication.

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>I got into Vibe Coding and built a screenshot tool called GuckGuck.

<p>For a side project I’m currently developing, I need a basic API that includes CRUD operations and a method to execute Playwright commands.

<p>While working on a .NET MAUI app which has a strong focus on desktop platforms, I needed a way to listen to keyboard events and handle shortcuts and key combinations.

<h1 id="update-from-2024-09-11-22:34">Update from 2024-09-11 22:34<a title="#update-from-2024-09-11-22:34" href="#update-from-2024-09-11-22:34"></a></h1> <p>Wow 🤩 the feedback and usage of the app has been overwhelming.

<p>I’m recently working on a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app which is a migration project from Xamarin.Forms.

<p>In this post, I will revisit the topic of publishing a single exe for a WinUI application.

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>I used DemoFusion image-to-image generation and Real-ESRGAN-NCNN to upscale and enhance some sprite sheets of the game Little Fighter 2 which was released in 1999.

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>The frustration with .NET MAUI was too big, so I decided to rewrite Dots with Avalonia, which brought back the joy of development.

<p>I really like the <a href="https://playwright.dev/" target="_blank">Playwright</a> project.

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<p>I’m currently working on a side project where i need a custom view that can animate multiple images like a slot machine reel.

<h2 id="update-march-2024">Update March 2024<a title="#update-march-2024" href="#update-march-2024"></a></h2> <p>Publishing a WinUI 3 app as a single exe is now possible.

<p>In January i published a sideproject called <a href="/2023/01/Promptdle">Promptdle</a>.

<p>i’m playing with StableDiffusion for a while now <a href="https://johnnys.news/2022/12/setup-StableDiffusion-locally" target="_blank">https://johnnys.news/2022/12/setup-StableDiffusion-locally</a> and today i’m shipping a first sideproject that was inf…

<p>Finally found some time to write this post about Dots.

<h1 id="stable-diffusion">Stable Diffusion<a title="#stable-diffusion" href="#stable-diffusion"></a></h1> <p>I’m pretty sure at this point most of the tech savvy people on the internet have heard about or have seen some AI-generated art.

<p>I’m in the process of porting a complex desktop app to the web.

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>Maui.ColorPicker is the evolution of XFColorPickerControl - a SkiaSharp powered color picker for .NET MAUI.

<p>I started “collecting” NFTs (not the real token but the JPGs) a while ago when i released <a href="2022/03/OpenSee-an-OpenSea-downloader-built-with-NET-MAUI">OpenSee</a>.

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<h1 id="update">UPDATE<a title="#update" href="#update"></a></h1> <p>After various requests to publish the app i finally found the time to prepare a <a href="https://github.com/nor0x/OpenSee/actions/workflows/release.yml" target="_blank">CI/CD pipeline</a>

<p>I’m experimenting with Uno Platform for a while now - it’s a great piece of software and enables dotnet developers to use their existing skills to build cross-platform apps.

<p>In November 2021 the latest version of C# was introduced together with .NET 6.

<p>Back in 2019 while i was working on a big Xamarin.Mac based application, i needed some form of analytics and crash reporting.

<p>I spent a lot of time during my christmas holidays on the tennis court doing training and matches with my friends - as i’m still a rookie and pretty new in the tennis game it can happen that i loose track about the current score.

<p>time for a holiday hack 🎅 HoHo!

<h1 id="tl;dr">TL;DR<a title="#tl;dr" href="#tl;dr"></a></h1> <p>add an asset catalog (YourIcon.appiconset) with the icon and add this to the <code>info.plist</code> of the extension.

<p>this is a quick post about my current theme for Visual Studio Code.

<h1 id="introducing-overflower">Introducing OverFlower<a title="#introducing-overflower" href="#introducing-overflower"></a></h1> <blockquote> <p>an endless overflow scroller for Xamarin.Forms</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://github.com/nor0x/OverFlo…

<h1 id="sharpnado.materialframe-for-macos">Sharpnado.MaterialFrame for macOS<a title="#sharpnado.materialframe-for-macos" href="#sharpnado.materialframe-for-macos"></a></h1> <p><em>guest blog post on Sharpnado <a href="https://www.sharpnado.com/materialfr…