Weird NuGet Packages: A Playground for Creativity in .NET
summary
NuGet hosts a mix of practical and playful packages: a package literally called nothing (2.4k downloads) that does nothing, several ASCII art libraries for console apps, NuGet wrappers around joke APIs including a Dad Jokes .NET wrapper (compatible with .NET 6) and Chuck Norris jokes, and quirky finds like a package marked “not intended for production” yet with 1.7M downloads despite "not for production". Also present are JSON utilities (Yoda) and oddly named helpers like a “noodle” library that do real work behind cute names.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:37Inspiration for talk
- 4:10NuGet creativity
- 4:32Absurd packages
- 5:15Console art tools
- 6:40Joke APIs
- 7:22Dad jokes APIs
- 8:50DidYouMean package
- 9:33Production testing
- 9:55Wikipedia clients
- 10:17YOLO object detection
- 11:01Star Wars JSON tools
- 11:24Italian gems
- 12:07Takeaways
- 12:49Closing
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