- 8/18/2026
- 2 minute read
Claude Memory Admin
I vibe-coded a small tool to get a grasp on your projects MEMORY.md that is in ~/.claude.
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Software consulting & development at Bitspire
Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.
Recent Posts
- 8/17/2026
- 2 minute read
xUnit.v3 4.0.0 released
xUnit.v3 got a new major release. This blog post is more about the consequences of that for your local build and CI/CD pipelines than about the new features.
- 8/16/2026
- 3 minute read
.NET Toolbox August Update
Quite some time passed since I posted a changelog to the .NET Toolbox. And there are big news: The Toolbox is running dotnet native in the browser thanks to wasm and Mono!
- 8/1/2026
- 29 minute read
.NET 11 Performance Edition
As always my yearly take on the latest .NET release. In a few months dotnet 11 will be released and I wanted to have a look into some performance metrics.
- 7/19/2026
- 2 minute read
Adding static getter thanks to extensions
Here a simple scenario: You have a StringComparer and you want to add your own comparer to the mix - for example a "natural sort" order, so "file2" sorts before "file10" instead of after.
With C# 14 we can extend the family and make it feel natural!
- 7/12/2026
- 1 minute read
Set LogLevel of Blazor
Blazor is a bit talkative when it comes to the Developer Console. PageSpeed Insights for example does complain:
Browser errors were logged to the console
The fix is easy.
- 7/1/2026
- 10 minute read
LinkedIn - What a dumbster fire
LinkedIn: The "professional" network where critical thinking takes a backseat and everyone is an expert in everything.
- 6/20/2026
- 14 minute read
Signals in Blazor
Signals - more often used in Angular - are a nice way to tell the UI that something has changed. Blazor doesn't have that natively, but how would it look, if it did?
- 6/8/2026
- 4 minute read
EF Core 11 makes your split queries faster
If you use AsSplitQuery anywhere in your codebase, EF Core 11 has a present for you: your queries get faster.
- 5/18/2026
- 2 minute read
Zstandard compression in .NET 11
.NET has had DeflateStream, GZipStream, ZLibStream, and BrotliStream for a while now. In .NET 11, a new one joins the party: ZstandardStream. And now we get to say "Zstd" in .NET.