Associates in Computer Science. Working on Bachelors Degree at UMass Lowell. I am a giant tech geek.
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Matthew Bonanno retweeted
There’s one person in this exchange whose behavior, hand-picked candidates, and policies were repudiated handily by voters with historical election losses coast to coast — including in Texas, Kansas, Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia — and it ain’t Kaitlan.
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Inside James Gunn, Peter Safran's DC Ouster: Exec Tensions and a Fateful David Ellison Visit hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
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DC Shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran Out as Co-Presidents, Marvel Veteran Jeremy Latcham to Lead Comic Book Studio variety.com/2026/film/news/j…
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The amount of people outraged by this WinUI-powered Registry Editor is kind of hilarious, considering it is nothing more than just a sample app, and not an actual product. It's literally in the last sentence of the tweet no-one fully read.
Here's your first look at Microsoft's new WinUI 3 Registry Editor, but it's a developer sample preview, so it may not ship on Windows 11 anytime soon.
Windows Latest found the app inside Microsoft's open-source Reactor repository, and I built it myself on Windows 11.
It keeps the familiar two-pane layout but replaces the cramped Windows 95-era interface with native WinUI 3 controls, a dark-mode-ready design, and smoother animations.
It can read, create, rename, and delete registry keys, edit values, and search the registry. It even uses Mica, with no Electron or WebView2 involved.
There are still unfinished features, and Microsoft hasn't announced plans to replace regedit.exe.
This is a developer sample made by Microsoft, not an official Windows 11 replacement.
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Matthew Bonanno retweeted
is Opus 5.5 nerfed?
I just had Gemini 4 Argon analyze 1,400 Claude Code sessions and it found that on November 3, something definitely happened.
the model name didn't change, but the way it does reasoning took a sharp turn.
Matthew Bonanno retweeted
As @JenMsft likes to remind many of us in MSFT, sometimes it's the little things. She is a national treasure...
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We got your back, New York!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Several figures here aren’t federal results or NY-specific. The $472B combines US wide pledges: Micron's $250B is nationwide (NY site $100B) Anthropic's $50B covers TX and NY. The 48% murder drop is from NY's state run GIVE program (28 departments, Jan – May 2026).
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Matthew Bonanno retweeted
We often get asked what the best model is in GitHub Copilot.
Our team spends an enormous amount of time optimizing the GitHub Copilot harness for the best, most token-efficient results.
For the first time, we're publishing our data on what models perform best in Copilot:
benchmarks.github.com
Matthew Bonanno retweeted
You're going to hear everyone talk about the best of 2026, but let's name the worst Windows 11 app of the year: none other than WhatsApp, which can use over 2GB of RAM just scrolling through chats!
Meta killed the native Windows app in November 2025 and replaced it with a WebView2 wrapper. This app crosses 2GB while scrolling, with 10 processes running in Task Manager.
- WhatsApp Desktop (current): Up to 2,157.8MB RAM while scrolling through chats, with 10 processes, 28.6% CPU usage, and 11.6MB/s disk activity.
- Old native WhatsApp (UWP): Under 100MB idle, around 250MB while scrolling, and 316MB during video calls.
- WhatsApp Web in Edge: Around 700MB for one account, with smoother scrolling than the desktop app in my testing.
- Two WhatsApp Web accounts in Edge: 593.4MB and 562.8MB respectively, around 1.16GB combined.
- WhatsApp Web installed as a Windows app via Edge: 579.6MB, with the actual memory usage hidden under Edge processes.
- Telegram Desktop: 340.1MB with active groups receiving thousands of messages
The difference is ridiculous. And it makes you wonder what it takes to build a proper app for a platform with billions of active devices.
Meta has billions of dollars to spend on AI infrastructure, yet it cannot give Windows users a decent native WhatsApp app.
ALT WhatsApp for Windows 11
Matthew Bonanno retweeted
Harness + Opus 5.5 can finally go limitless, and Stanford research just showed why
Same model. Different harness. Up to 6x performance gap.
This system was built from 57+ papers on how to wrap a model so it actually gets better. Here's how it works in 6 steps:
> Step 1: Mine your past sessions
Every time you had to correct your agent, turn that fix into a rule.
> Step 2: Delete what you can't prove
If a rule doesn't improve results, it's just noise eating your context.
> Step 3: Keep your instructions short
One giant prompt fails. About 100 lines that point to other rules wins.
> Step 4: Cut your tools
Fewer, sharper tools mean higher success and fewer wasted tokens.
> Step 5: Back rules up with scripts
Prose is a suggestion. Hooks, linters and tests are guarantees.
> Step 6: Garden your harness
Prune stale rules and re-check everything after every big change.
The best harnesses are small, evidence-based and constantly pruned.
Opus 5.5 is the engine. The harness decides how far it goes.
Save this before it gets buried ↓
Matthew Bonanno retweeted
Microsoft is finally giving Windows 11's modern native framework, WinUI, the attention it deserves, and you should soon start seeing more apps that not only run faster but also look great on Windows!
WinUI's biggest update yet means resource-hungry WebView-based apps could finally stop taking center stage.
Until now, developers building Windows apps with WinUI often had to rely on third-party libraries or build many basic components themselves, which made web frameworks like Electron an easier alternative.
The new WinUI update brings TableView for sorting, filtering, and editing data, native Chart controls for financial dashboards and other visualizations, and InkCanvas and InkToolbar for handwriting and drawing.
Microsoft's Chris Anderson admitted at Build 2026 that WinUI still has "a ton of feature gaps in the platform," and these additions finally start addressing some of them.
I particularly like that Microsoft is bringing these controls into its own framework instead of expecting developers to depend on third-party libraries for basic functionality.
And it's just the start. WinUI and Windows 11 will get even better in the coming months. Microsoft is not slowing down!
ALT Windows 11 RAM usage
Matthew Bonanno retweeted
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than in your PC. These people don’t want you to own powerful computers anymore, they want you to rent them
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Matthew Bonanno retweeted
A couple weeks ago, we introduced Surface Laptop Ultra, including our new magnetic USB-C power connector.
One of the things we spend a lot of time on in Surface is getting the feel of an interaction just right. With this connector, it's about how the magnets guide it into place, the sound and LED that let you know it's connected, and how easily it releases.
The team built hundreds of prototypes, experimenting with magnet sizes, positions, forces, and cable alignment.
One of my favorite details: moving the magnets just 0.7mm changed the experience from needing a final push to smoothly finding its way into place.
Once we found the right feel, the next challenge was making it repeatable. The team selected a prototype that captured the experience we wanted, then worked through simulations and multiple manufacturing iterations to reproduce that feel in production.
And it had to hold up. Thousands of connection cycles, off-axis pulls, and tests for the kinds of forces a cable might experience when someone trips over it.
The cable has another useful detail: flip it around, and you can charge other USB-C devices, like your phone.
A lot of work across industrial design, mechanical engineering, reliability, and manufacturing to make one small interaction feel right.
