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  1. StrangeWill

    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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.
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    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...
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    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...
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    Serious Your Favorite Story-Driven Games

    First and foremost, game spoilers must be spoilered! So this is your thread to post games that have a strong narrative impact on you, consider this a thread where we continue to scream this basically non-stop: These games are probably going to require a deep level of immersion to really get...
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    More Aggressive Anti-Spam

    I've upped some anti-spam stuff and deleted all the spam accounts that were banned here, this generally shouldn't matter other than admins aren't going to have a constant spam queue every day to kick -- but I think we had one user that needed manual approval so it may be a problem for someone at...
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    MOAR SMILIES

    :hmmm:Hmm.... Guess I finally got around to getting those Devanooga smilies into here. Because the forums have been basically impossible to use without them. :teehee: Process was kind of ridiculous: Export all of the emoji from Slack Have to do it in a real bullshit way because it takes too...
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    Black Friday/Cyber Monday Horror Stories

    So a thread to tell your woes of BFCM -- the day all of our e-commerce sites (and related services) get kicked in the teeth day after day. So mine started actually on the 27th, we get a massive traffic spike after noon system is holding fine, some events are backing up in RabbitMQ, but that's...
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    GMRS Repeater Linking

    So I figured I'd drag some of the discussion I was having over in a Discord channel of local Hams (and my opinion), little bit of primer here: https://talkpodonline.com/blogs/blog/understanding-the-controversy-surrounding-gmrs-repeater-linking The FCC updated their website to make this...
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    Move Politics To The Forums

    So a pretty simple thing that has been discussed off and on, do we move politics to the forums? I'd lock it down to member-only, a few thoughts: Pros: Threaded (yay) Moderation tools (very yay for mods) We can ban you from it (I swear no channel moderation in Slack sucks) No more 3 day...
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    Upgraded to XenForo v2.3 and PHP 8.3

    Just minor updates for the forums -- we're off of release candidate so... well we were on RC 5 so it was already pretty stable, but should be even more stablier Also took advantage of upgrading to PHP 8.3 since that's recommended for XenForo v2.3.
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    Less-Painful MongoDB Migration

    So I'm looking to replace some old MongoDB servers, these are VMs that are manually managed, and they need a fresh ground-up rebuild. They're in multi-node clusters (3 nodes) -- I've never tried to do a per-node replacement/replication on them before. Is there an easy way to basically just...
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    W3DEV Field Day 2024 Results!

    Our results are in 1107 QSOs for a total score of 1,741 Contest: FD Band Mode QSOs Pts Pt/Q 3.5 CW 19 38 2.0 3.5 LSB 2 2 1.0 7 CW 243 486 2.0 7 FT4 62 124 2.0 7 FT8 1 2 2.0 7 LSB 142 142...
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