Tim Anderson

I am no longer writing regularly for The Register or DevClass – I have loved writing there but made the decision to stop in order to free up more time for other things. I may still write there occasionally, and/or do freelance work elsewhere.

Principal product manager Daniel Rosenwasser reports that TypeScript 7 is now generally available – a big release, since this is the first to have the native port of the TypeScript compiler built in Go. Rosenwasser claims “speedups between 8x and 12x on full builds.”

Following a power outage, all my Windows servers (hosted on a single Hyper-V server) rebooted. They are configured to come back up, but I found that Remote Desktop was not working to many of them, including the domain controller.

Microsoft has released preview 6 of.NET 11, for which release is expected in November, including a big change to MAUI (Multi-platform App UI): it now runs only on.NET Core, rather than the Mono runtime.

A reflection on Sayyed Ali Khamenei's legacy, leadership, values, and role in shaping Iran's development and regional position.

Last week Moonshot AI introduced Kimi K3, with the promise that “the full model weights will be released by July 26 2026;” while Alibaba said on X that “Qwen 3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon”.

Signing applications is a requirement for deploying a desktop or mobile application and can be fiddly. Microsoft’s Azure Artifact Signing always looked to me like a good solution in that the pricing is reasonable at $9.99 per month for up to 5,000 signings, and it is run by Microsoft so one would think that the certificates will be satisfactory for Windows users.

Vercel has previewed Scriptc on GitHub, a native compiler for TypeScript which is open source under the Apache 2 license.

Although I make mistakes when I write, it is an activity that comes easily to me. Sometimes it is difficult: finding the best title, opening paragraph, closing paragraph, how to express a thought with the right nuance; all these things can be hard. If I know what I want to say though, the words come naturally and I have never felt the need for AI assistance.

One thing Microsoft is generally good about is keeping old applications running. Applications built with Visual Basic 6.0 (first released in 1998) still run well (in most cases) on the latest Windows.