not being allowed to use pointers to native memory across async/awaits in c# is driving me nuts

I need an agent that can find old invoices my taxguy is asking me for across 3 email accounts / websites.

Just learned that semaphore is “traffic light” in Spanish.

TIL JetBrains.Annotations has [InstantHandle]. You put it on a method parameter that's a delegate to promise you'll invoke it immediately, and not later. helps squashing annoying warnings at the callsites! where have you been all my life.

wonderful ai moment today: "write a benchmarkdotnet project that compares Array.Sort of a IComparable struct, and where we pass in a lambda. get me dissassembly of both codepaths, and write a single html page that annotates the dissassembly of both sides, and tries to explain any performance differences".

Not being allowed to have >1 Span<T> to operate on drives me crazy. I want to take N input spans, do some operation on them an output a single span.

I was tired of AI coding for a while, but the new claudecode has me back. it feels a big step up. Using it a lot to find bugs and do investigations in addition to coding. it's finding a lot!

all LLM's seem to think you can create a ReadOnlyMemory from a ReadOnlySpan

my biggest fear is writing some question for chatgpt into the groupchat by mistake.

n=1, but new claudecode just did a really good job on a gnarly protobuf parsing bug

whoa so much ai news. so much stuff is launching, the hardest part is choosing which if any to give a shot. takes so long to actually evaluate/learn a new model/product/tool.

Some good examples of recent c# async/await drama: blog.s-schoener.com/2025-09-… Do all async/await people just live like this?

Counting Crows!

I bought the #1 beelink ser9 option available for purchase, which has a Ryzen AI 9 HX370

I need to get a c# async/await based program to get much faster. Profiling this code feels undoable. The callstacks are super deep with previous async sections on the callstack. How do people profile their async/await?

feeling very little energy for dealing with this shit, plugging back in my mac to get some work done.

adding 'nomodeset' to the linux boot command does get me to the password screen, but then again it immediately blackscreens.

picked up a SER9 mini pc to give #omarchy a shot. it doess install, but cannot boot into new os. cannot get past bootloader. machine now fails to boot into the omarchy iso on usb drive. getting very oldschool linux vibes here.