Opinions are mine alone. Performance, reliability, zero cost abstractions advocate. EM Windows Store client @ MSFT
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Clarkezone retweeted
Microsoft.UI.Reactor: a C#-first way to build #WinUI apps: devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef…
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Epic Games released an official plugin that lets Claude Code control Unreal Engine directly.
It connects Claude Code to the Unreal Editor and exposes hundreds of editor tools across 30+ toolsets:
→ Actors, Blueprints and materials
→ Niagara effects, Control Rigs and Sequencer
→ State Trees, widgets and the Gameplay Ability System
→ Automation testing
Install it from Anthropic's official plugin marketplace:
/plugin install unreal-engine-skills-for-claude-code@claude-plugins-official
In Unreal, enable the ModelContextProtocol and AllToolsets plugins, then start the MCP server with the editor open.
Works on Mac, Linux, and Windows through Git Bash or WSL.
github.com/EpicGames/unreal-…
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I love the work @burkeholland is doing for high quality Windows apps and that he is putting them on the store for easy access!
apps.microsoft.com/search/pu…
Working on some big updates for his Mirror Me app right now!
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This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax.
- 100-500× faster than mermaid.js
- 6× smaller bundle
- No dependencies
- Easy to theme
- Responsive to device width
In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now.
Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!
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Introducing the new Photos app on Windows 11! 📸
✨ All-new Gallery with OneDrive & iCloud
🎨 Rebuilt native Editor with powerful AI tools
⚡ Faster, redesigned native Viewer
Rolling out to Windows Insiders today.
Meet the new Photos app on Windows 11
msft.it/6017atDsz
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Today we also published benchmarks and a deep dive into LLM inference on M5 Ultra Mac Studio, covering MLX, GPU Neural Accelerators, tensor and pipeline parallelism, and Thunderbolt 5 RDMA.
machinelearning.apple.com/re…
Muse Spark Open -- weights releasing today -- runs great on new Mac Studios thanks to work with @johnternus and Apple.
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Super excited to ship the new Photo Viewer and Editor! Faster launch times, nearly 50% less RAM used by the Editor, and tons of new features!
One detail worth showing off: Photo Viewer is now edge-to-edge. Zoom into a photo and watch it take over the entire window!
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WinUI Gallery 3.0 is here: TableView, Charts, InkCanvas and more devblogs.microsoft.com/ifdef…
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Chris Lattner keynotes #PyTorchCon on Tuesday: “MAX and Mojo: The Best Way to Extend PyTorch.”
@clattner_llvm will cover how we’re helping developers run their models across a wider range of hardware. He’ll also share an early look at how the broader ecosystem can build on MAX with us.
After his keynote, swing by the Modular booth (#3) for demos and swag.
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Just updated it to enhance the status column format and batch installers so you only need to elevate once. Get latest version from the PS Gallery:
powershellgallery.com/packag…
Remember dotnet-steward.damianedwards… to easily update all your standalone .NET installs (SDKs, runtimes) on Windows!
(.NET updates will be out later today)
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This is the power of Composition in WinUI ✨!
Explore what's possible with the Visual Layer 👇
learn.microsoft.com/windows/…
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I’m sure this one won’t make anyone angry. (But probably not here.)
daringfireball.net/2026/10/x…
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A while back I wanted to learn more about WinUI's composition APIs, so had started a little game for fun. I finally got around to polishing it a bit the past few weekends. It just got published in the store: apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P…
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Been working hard on Rex server scalability. In short: we were able to run 10,000 active terminals simultaneously with 3.8 GB memory usage while maintaining responsiveness. We didn't try more yet, we want to improve some numbers before going bigger, but the goal is 100,000.
This wasn't free and to get to this point required a lot of very fun engineering challenges! Here are just a couple:
- Linux fork preallocates enough fd table space for the highest open fd at fork time to the nearest power of 2. For terminals beyond ~5000, that was 512KB per terminal process JUST for a fd table that had ~4 fds. We now use a trampoline written in C to unshare the fd table so it shrinks back down to fitting the minimum fds.
- We previously kept all active (non-snapshot) terminals blocked on pty read, but that takes up an OS thread which at this scale uses a prohibitively high amount of RAM. We now move all quiet pty fds (2 seconds without read activity) to a shared epoll thread.
I didn't compare to any other multiplexers at this time. I'm not particularly interested at this state to have relative numbers against others, because the enemy I'm trying to beat is myself. We'll continue to improve these numbers, these are still alpha-quality builds.
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A lot coming together today across Windows + Surface, and a good look at where we’re headed next.
Hybrid intelligence. More local compute. The next generation of powerful devices. New Windows experiences. More ways to create, build, and experiment.
Lots more to dig into below. And if you want to catch the full event from this morning, you can watch it here:
youtube.com/live/ilmBGeGldrI…
Today, we announced new @Windows platform capabilities and @surface devices built to empower people and organizations for the era of hybrid intelligence. Here are some of the highlights:
- It all starts with trust. Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) is now generally available on Windows 11, keeping agents contained within boundaries the operating system enforces.
- HydraFusion brings hybrid intelligence to life, allowing models to run locally while seamlessly accessing the cloud when more scale or capability is needed. We're working with @github to extend HydraFusion to Windows.
- This fall, Search on the taskbar adds thousands of quick actions, making it easier to adjust settings and get things done as fast as you can type.
- @MSFTCopilot is getting more powerful on Windows. With hybrid intelligence, it can tap into your PC's local capabilities and turn your requests into action, while keeping you in control.
- Local agents are coming to Windows too. Muse is on its way as a native Windows app with MXC integration, and Hermes, OpenClaw, and Perplexity are already building local experiences on Windows.
- Surface Laptop Ultra, built with NVIDIA RTX Spark, is the most powerful Surface we've ever built. It's available for pre-order today, along with the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box and new RTX Spark PCs from our partners. Call of Duty is coming to RTX Spark in 2027.
Read more on the Windows Blog: blogs.windows.com/windowsexp…
