This morning I tweeted this: Just found a C# 8 nullable reference types warning in Noda Time. Fixing it by changing Foo(x, x?.Bar) to Foo(x, x?.Bar!) which looks really dodgy… anyone want to guess why it’s okay? This attracted more interest than I expected, so I thought I’d blog about it. First let’s unpack what … Continue reading Lying to the compiler →

Note: this is a pretty long post. If you’re not interested in the details, the conclusion at the bottom is intended to be read in a standalone fashion. There’s also a related blog post by Lau Taarnskov – if you find this one difficult to read for whatever reason, maybe give that a try. When … Continue reading Storing UTC is not a silver bullet →

Side-note: this may be one of the clumsiest titles I’ve ever written for a blog post. But it does what it says on the tin. Oh, and the space after “ASP” in “ASP .NET Core” everywhere it to avoid auto-linking. While I could use a different dot or a zero-width non-breaking space to avoid it, … Continue reading Hosting ASP.NET Core behind https in Google Kubernetes Engine →

Background: Noda Time and C# 8 Note: this blog post was written based on experimentation with Visual Studio 2019 preview 2.2. It’s possible that some of the details here will change over time. C# 8 is nearly here. At least, it’s close enough to being “here” that there are preview builds of Visual Studio 2019 … Continue reading NullableAttribute and C# 8 →

This is more of a quick, explanatory “heads-up” post than anything else. On March 31st 2018, I started an experiment: I created a new Stack Overflow user called “Daisy Shipton” with no picture and a profile that just read “Love coding in C#” (or similar). I wanted to see how a new user presenting with … Continue reading Farewell, Daisy Shipton →