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  1. StrangeWill

    Mastodon is Back, Y'all!

    Hmm, there's some issues with following other servers, I'll follow up on that.
  2. StrangeWill

    Alternatives To Slack?

    Ah I've been worried because I heard they broke some important stuff in v10 in an attempt to get people to jump to their enterprise licensing, I'll put it back on the table for my own consideration. I'm super paranoid because companies doing that can basically kill FOSS projects. There is some...
  3. StrangeWill

    Mastodon is Back, Y'all!

    With the work done with Chattanooga Digital, I figured it would be good to dust off the old 4.1 Devanooga Mastodon server. Chattanooga Digital will get a cleaned up Docker Compose setup, and we'll get a new v4.5 server storing all assets on an S3 server instead of throwing them all on the...
  4. StrangeWill

    Alternatives To Slack?

    Yeah, that's going to be annoying with a few of the platforms, but Discord doubly so because it's a "Gamer platform". Yeah, the chat is rough. If it isn't a huge pain, getting a server online to play with would be great, do you think we care about "importing" our stuff or do we cut, run and cry?
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    Alternatives To Slack?

    Background Well recently this article has been floating around: https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack TL;DR: an open group slack ended up crossing the threshold for free Slack for communities like ours, moving to $5k/yr (we're not there yet) and nailed them with another fee. While that's been fixed...
  6. StrangeWill

    W3DEV - Tennessee QSO Party 2025

    Callsign: W3DEV Contest: TN QSOPARTY Band Mode QSOs Pts Mul Pt/Q 3.5 CW 12 36 10 3.0 3.5 LSB 2 6 1 3.0 7 CW 41 123 8 3.0 7 LSB 116 348 48 3.0 7 RTTY 1 3 0 3.0 14 CW 39 117 7...
  7. StrangeWill

    Moving off of TypeScript to C#

    https://engineering.usemotion.com/moving-off-of-typescript-e7bb1f3ad091 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45277193 We had a startup that got some flak for us writing our application in C#, mostly just snobby startup types asking why we didn't use Python or Node, honestly the performance...
  8. StrangeWill

    W3DEV - Field Day 2025

    Field Day Photos
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    W3DEV - Field Day 2025

    Setup Photos
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    W3DEV - Field Day 2025

    Scores Callsign: W3DEV Contest: FD Band Mode QSOs Pts Pt/Q 3.5 CW 7 14 2.0 7 CW 171 342 2.0 7 FT4 112 224 2.0 7 LSB 266 266 1.0 14 CW 340 680 2.0 14 USB 124 124 1.0 21 CW 40 80...
  11. StrangeWill

    MAUI/Aspire/Test Containers - Microsoft Not Invented Here Syndrome

    There was an interesting thread on /r/dotnet today My reply on this: I'm just kind of feeling exhausted in .NET basically re-inventing the wheel while we continue to have other gaps that could use filling, such as Microsoft's lackluster support of open source projects and the crunch of so...
  12. StrangeWill

    Development Speed vs Age

    This is something that kind of rolls around the industry a bit -- that as developers age out they get slower/less efficient/etc. whatever. There's a few fun takes on my part: I totally wrote more code when I was 20 Like that 4000 line file instead of making it completely data driven and what...
  13. StrangeWill

    How Quick Can People Get Spun Up On Your Projects?

    On this Reddit thread today, there was a discussion about .NET Aspire something I haven't heard about until now. One of the comments brings up this point: I.. uh... have we not been doing this with docker and seeders for... well, near a decade for now? How much of a struggle is it for...
  14. StrangeWill

    Move Politics To The Forums

    I love the 50/50 split, anyway, it may be something we do someday, maybe requires login, maybe for users that specifically request access, probably don't want it public, not sure how we handle retention, but maybe someday longer-lived political stuff could be interesting. Today is not that day...
  15. StrangeWill

    Shopify Issue - Random Rare Failures of Online Auth With HTML Response

    OK this is a funny one, we added Online auth (after Offline auth) so we could tell which user is logging into our app (auditing, permissions, etc.), cool. However randomly, very rarely, for specific user accounts, instead of getting a JSON response, we get an HTML response, when you dump the...
  16. StrangeWill

    If You're Not Using Husky.NET Do It

    https://alirezanet.github.io/Husky.Net/ The ability to slap together in some nice pre-commit hooks, get decent cross-platform support, etc. is wonderful. CLI UX is great, I went from nothing to having it locking down one of our newer projects with a ton of pre-checks in a half an hour.
  17. StrangeWill

    Alternatives For FOSS .NET Libraries That Went Commercial

    A lot of libraries have been moving closed-source/commercial lately (I also got some listed here that are older/people may not know because they kind of silently transitioned), for many of us these aren't options, so we'll keep a list of libraries that went this direction and recommended...
  18. StrangeWill

    So.... How Long Until The Hiring Market Recovers?

    Wait you're saying you've got more hits this week than almost the previous year?
  19. StrangeWill

    So.... How Long Until The Hiring Market Recovers?

    This is a bit of a two-fer question -- one we just passed December, the worst month for hiring in IT sectors it seems, and of course the general hiring slowdown/hemorrhaging of employees of some places. Does hiring pick up again in January? I haven't kept my finger on the pulse quite close...
  20. StrangeWill

    Electric Car Infrastructure UX Difficulties Are Ruining Electric Cars

    An update to the EV Road Trips suck -- TLDR: it's a lot better when you don;t have to rely on the app lol (and there's enough chargers)
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