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Rick Brewster
@rickbrewPDN
I'm Rick Brewster, author of Paint​.NET! I'll be tweeting about .NET, C#, Paint​.NET, graphics, Windows things. paint.net
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    Rick Brewster
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    May 29
    I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉 Paint​.NET is now at paint.net! Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.
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    Rick Brewster
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    May 12, 2022
    Replying to @Sblahov
    My uncle posted this on FB a long time ago and it always stuck with me ...
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    Rick Brewster
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    Nov 16, 2024
    There's a very ... special ... software out there installed on a lot of PCs. It's a system service called Nahimic and is used by software such as "A-Volute", which does something related to audio. It basically causes everything to crash. But there's a secret killswitch ...
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    Rick Brewster
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    Dec 26, 2019
    Here's the story of a game I made in 1994, when I was 12, that somehow -- like some kind of lost, drunken cat -- finally found its way home on Christmas Eve after 25 years. THE GOLDEN FLUTE IV: THE FLUTE OF IMMORTALITY cc @Macaw45 and @textfiles
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    Rick Brewster
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    Jan 11, 2023
    Paint​.NET 5.0 is now available!!! Check it out here: forums.getpaint.net/topic/121643-p… There's so much new stuff to talk about...
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    Rick Brewster
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    Jan 1, 2022
    Every software developer makes mistakes, no developer can write 100% bug-free code. I'm going to share potentially the most embarrassing bug I've ever caused, which I just discovered in Paint​.NET yesterday.
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    Rick Brewster
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    Dec 24, 2019
    Replying to @Srickshaw
    Yeah but ... huh? How'd you find or hear about it? I don't even have a copy, it got lost, I think I only ever sent out a physical copy to 1 person and never even uploaded it to the Internet. (IIRC) Even Google has nothing on it
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    Rick Brewster
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    Nov 8, 2022
    Paint​.NET v5.0 is on .NET 7! Total conversion time was about 5 minutes. Had some compile errors because WinForms added some new nullable annotations. Also I got a (non-spam) phone call in the middle of it all.
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    Rick Brewster
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    Jun 4, 2021
    Success! Paint​.NET's migration to .NET Core has made some big strides. ZIP (portable) and APPX packages are building, the shell extension (thumbnail provider) is working (native code that hosts .NET runtime!), and crossgen/ReadyToRun binaries just landed today too 😁
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    Rick Brewster
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    Dec 25, 2019
    Replying to @Srickshaw
    Yup that was me ... I just watched the stream 😂🤣 Yeah I think I was 12. I'll have to tweet the story behind it, stay tuned!
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    Rick Brewster
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    Sep 22, 2021
    Paint​.NET 4.3 is out! Now running on .NET 5 with major performance optimizations across the whole app, and native ARM64 support. Go get it 😁
    paint.net 4.3 is now available!
    From forums.paint.net
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    Rick Brewster
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    Oct 16, 2022
    There's a lot going on with Paint​.NET's development over the last few months -- this upcoming update has gotten quite big so I've rebranded v4.4 as v5.0! So, what's new for PDN v5.0?
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    Rick Brewster
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    May 9, 2021
    Making progress on the .NET Core 5 port of Paint​.NET 😎 It boots! Lots of little things are broken, mostly due to reflection and serialization.
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    Rick Brewster
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    Nov 9, 2021
    Paint​.NET on .NET 6! That wasn't so hard. Still have to get the update downloading to work, as WebRequest is deprecated now in favor of HttpClient with a completely different API, and packaging isn't figured out yet (crossgen is different), but this is encouraging!