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This post would carry a lot more authority if it was on an official MS or .net blog; instead of Medium. (I typically associate Medium with low-quality blog entr
by gwbas1c 1y ago
This post would carry a lot more authority if it was on an official MS or .net blog; instead of Medium. (I typically associate Medium with low-quality blog entries and don't read them.)
- justin66 1y agoOr if the author used their real name.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoAgree. It's not like a blogpost that is about grey hat subjects or something.
- artimaeis 1y agoFor what it's worth, Maoni is the author's real name. Maoni0 is what they go by everywhere. You can find interviews and plenty of their other content if you search around a bit.
- justin66 1y agoUsing a handle instead of their full name on an article is a choice. The first impression is not “knowledgeable employee making post about company’s product.” Posting from a Microsoft blog would to some extent fix this, to the OP’s point. (I know - who cares. But first impressions are what they are)
- nu11ptr 1y agoI don't generally find them low quality, but I do wish people wouldn't use it since I don't subscribe to it.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoIts the Pinterest of blogs, its really annoying.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoMoreso if the authors profile picture wasn't what looks like a memecat. I can't exactly share this around without feeling like they'll judge it based on that alone.
- pestkranker 1y agoMaoni0 is the mastermind behind the .NET GC. They won't judge you, and if they do, that's their problem.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoSure, but how many people truly know this? I love knowing about people who are key contributors to the industry. I run into a lot of walls when trying to talk to 99% of my coworkers about any of them.
- KiwiJohnno 1y agoI feel that if you are in the target audience for this article (deep dive into the behavior and design decisions of the .net GC) then you probably know who Maoni is. I'm just a sometime mid-level .net dev, and I immediately recognized her name.
- giancarlostoro 1y agoThat's fair, I usually read these .NET articles that crop up here on HN, though I don't always recognize the names, and I am easily the target audience, but I know industry architects who probably do not know who the author is offhand.
- bitwize 1y agoI think that might be her cat?
- pjmlp 1y agoThe author is one of the main GC architects on .NET, so we in the known are aware of who she is. Here is an interview with her, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkSnko0JNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkSnko0JNQ Having said this, I agree with you, the Aspire/MAUI architects do the same, I really don't get why we have to search for this kind of blog posts on other platforms instead of DevBlogs.
- deburo 1y agoThey should probably cross-post in both.
- lomase 1y agoMicrosoft likes to just delete thist kind of blogs from its site. Many times I have found an interesting article only for it to be just not accesible. Maybe that is why people stoped using it.
- saghm 1y agoCouldn't they just, you know, stop doing that?
- OoooooooO 1y agoThey would if they would care.
- pjmlp 1y agoAnd you think hosting on places like Medium is better, because? As if they would behave any better, assuming they don't go bankrupt.
- lomase 1y agoAnd you think I wrote that Medium is better, because?????? I am telling you why they don't use Microsoft blogs, no why they choosed Medium.
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- omnicognate 1y agoMicrosoft have a terrible track record for moving and deleting technical content, to the extent I think I'd rather their developers host their articles almost anywhere else. Maoni Stephens is the lead developer on the .NET garbage collector. An "About" entry would probably help, but she has a lot of name recognition in the .NET community and in the article it's clear from the first sentence that she's talking from the perspective of owning the GC.