public class SoftwareCraft
{
    private readonly ICuriosity curiosity;
    private readonly IExperience experience;

    public async Task<Article> ShareAsync(Idea idea)
    {
        var insight = await experience.ExploreAsync(idea);
        return curiosity.Write(insight);
    }
}

Blog

Hey, I'm Steven a .NET Developer in Switzerland. I am a Microsoft MVP. Also, this blog is open source on GitHub.

Software consulting & development at Bitspire

Recent Posts

9/18/2026
- C#
- .NET
3 minute read

Some days ago I wrote about duck-typing in C# with interceptors. Back then it was a proof-of-concept with a lot of rough edges. Now it is a real library: IfItQuacks.

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9/12/2026
- C#
- .NET
3 minute read

If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck - it is a duck. So duck it and make that work in C# thanks to interceptors!

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9/4/2026
4 minute read

Thanks to @toupswork for starting a funny discussion about extension properties on a recent post I made: "Adding static getter thanks to extensions". Therefore let's discuss two ridiculous ideas to add properties to existing types using extension methods in C# 14.

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8/18/2026
- Claude
- AI
2 minute read

I vibe-coded a small tool to get a grasp on your projects MEMORY.md that is in ~/.claude.

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8/17/2026
- .NET
- xUnit
2 minute read

xUnit.v3 got a new major release. This blog post is more about the consequences of that for your local build and CI/CD pipelines than about the new features.

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8/16/2026
- C#
- .NET
- Tools
3 minute read

Quite some time passed since I posted a changelog to the .NET Toolbox. And there are big news: The Toolbox is running dotnet native in the browser thanks to wasm and Mono!

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8/1/2026
29 minute read

As always my yearly take on the latest .NET release. In a few months dotnet 11 will be released and I wanted to have a look into some performance metrics.

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7/19/2026
2 minute read

Here a simple scenario: You have a StringComparer and you want to add your own comparer to the mix - for example a "natural sort" order, so "file2" sorts before "file10" instead of after.

With C# 14 we can extend the family and make it feel natural!

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