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Late posting; but I received the Microsoft MVP award for 2024-'25 for my public open-source work. Thank you @Microsoft and @MVPAward #mvpbuzz
Largest impact project for nomination:
* Bogus (79 million downloads) nuget.org/packages/Bogus/
* MVP Profile: lnkd.in/g2p3Xj_U
Brian Chavez retweeted
Qwen3.8-27B can now be run locally! ✨
Run on 17GB RAM via Unsloth Dynamic GGUFs.
Qwen3.8-27B is by far the strongest model for its size. We also uploaded NVFP4 quants.
GGUF: huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3…
Guide: unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3…
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉
⚡ Qwen3.8-27B:
- A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows.
- 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN.
- Built for builders. Highly efficient, high-quality, and licensed under Apache 2.0.
🚀 The open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) have also been released recently.
Whether you're shipping lightweight applications with Qwen3.8-27B locally or building agents with Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, they're yours now!
Download, deploy, and build something we haven't imagined yet. 👀👇
- Hugging Face：
huggingface.co/collections/Q…
- ModelScope：
modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…
Brian Chavez retweeted
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉
⚡ Qwen3.8-27B:
- A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows.
- 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN.
- Built for builders. Highly efficient, high-quality, and licensed under Apache 2.0.
🚀 The open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) have also been released recently.
Whether you're shipping lightweight applications with Qwen3.8-27B locally or building agents with Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, they're yours now!
Download, deploy, and build something we haven't imagined yet. 👀👇
- Hugging Face：
huggingface.co/collections/Q…
- ModelScope：
modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…
🙏 Recently found out and humbled. A huge and big thank you to the .NET community for making Bogus rank in the top 100 nuget packages in the world. ♥️ nuget.org/stats/packages
#dotnet #csharp #nuget
🎉Released Bogus v35.6.4:
* PR 619: Fixed Image.PlaceholderUrl; uses placehold.co now.
* Several general C# code improvements by
@SimonCropp🙏
... see HISTORY_md for details.
✅3728 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
Brian Chavez retweeted
I love seeing the combination of @bchavez 's #Bogus and OpenAPI transformers in this video from .NET Conf!
youtube.com/watch?v=pkQdwbYP…
🎉Released Bogus v35.6.1:
* PR 560: Ensure Belgian National Numbers have padded checksum.
* Bogus Premium: Fixes C# Roslyn Analyzer detecting read-only properties as missing rules.
✅3658 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
🎉Released Bogus v35.6.0:
* PR 556: Remove obsolete/non-working LoremPixel image service. `Images.LoremPixelUrl()` is removed.
* PR 557: Added Bogus.Extensions.Belgium extension method: Person.NationalNumber() / Rijksregisternummer #dotnet #csharp nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
🎉Released Bogus v35.5.1:
* PR 538: Fixes Invalid Costa Rica IBAN format.
✅ 3700 unit tests passing CI/CD. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
📸 I was on the Microsoft On .NET Show yesterday talking about Bogus. Here is the link #dotnet: youtube.com/watch?v=KoEOsfrR…
Thank you @fboucheros, @sandertenbrinke, and @mairacw for the opportunity to speak about Bogus on the Microsoft On .NET Live show. 🙏 #dotnet
I had a blast💥 meeting @sandertenbrinke and @bchavez and learning more about Entity Framework #EF and #Bogus with @mairacw
🎉Released Bogus v35.5.0: * PR 500: Allows locally set time references for DateTime calculations instead of using global static. See "Deterministic Dates and Times" section in README for more info.
✅3696 unit tests passing CI/CD. #dotnet #csharp nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
🎉Released Bogus v35.4.1:
* PR 529: XML Docs; Add inclusive/exclusive number ranges documentation for Randomizer.
* PR 535: Fix gender-digit for Swedish Personnummer.
✅3579 unit tests pass CI. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
🎉Released Bogus v35.4.0:
Massive update; like 7 PRs merged; all improvements around Govt IDs for Poland (Pesel/Nip/Regon), Sweden (Samordning.), Romania (CNP), Finland (Henkilo.), UK VAT checksum, & US NHTSA VINs
✅3579 unit tests pass CI. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
🎉 Released Bogus v35.3.0:
* PR 496: Improves Denmark CPR number generator with checksum validation. Thanks MunroRaymaker and NielsPilgaard!
✅ 3497 unit tests pass CI. Let me know if I broke anything. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…
🎉Released Bogus v35.2.0:
* Issue 497: PR 522 - Better Xamarin AOT compatibility. Renames/removes diacritics from API method names Finland: Henkilötunnus -> Henkilotunnus. Norway: Fødselsnummer -> Fodselsnummer.
✅3415 unit tests passing. #dotnet #csharp
nuget.org/packages/Bogus/35.…