Grant Byrne

As a Linux dotnet dev I’ve definitely been interested in building some desktop apps. Curious to see about how this plays out.

Is there an advantage to this over tools like Avalonia or Uno?

I’ve been doing this literally for decades, but I think it’s time… keys are moving to the left pocket and phone is going to the right pocket.

I don’t know what this whole engagement on social media means. Most of the time I feel like I’m preaching to the void.

So internet radio has been free since the 90s. Why are there 100s of IOS apps that charge monthly (or ad supported) for the privilege of listening to it?

With AI, it’s been months (…maybe a more than a year?) that I’ve cracked open Stack Overflow

What do you do about a cat that insists on sitting on your lap while you work?

AI loves to be interrupted.

Claude Code is giving me strong Mr. Meeseeks vibes

Lesson #3 - If you’re gonna run your database migrations as part of your deployment process, you should make sure that the timeout on the deployment connection string is super long. Something like an hour.

It’s sucks when you have to delay a deployment because it’s timing out on adding an index.

This also works well when you need to generate documentation or do things like threat modeling

One technique that I’ve messaged around with recently is have a repo that just contains markdown files that describes the architecture of all our microservices. I point Claude Code to it and ask it about changes I’m planning on making and see what it thinks.

Works well for a first design pass.

If you’re xml comments are longer than the method it’s describing, you should really reconsider

Select * in your app is the devil. Add a new thiccc JSON column and… KABLOOIE!

It’ll never happen, but I want a dialect of C# which is whitespace scoped (like python) instead of curly braces

I’m still unsure how I feel about automatic prod deployments when merging into main, but projects that I have that currently using it are pretty nice.

Running database migrations on deployments is 👨‍🍳😘

I personally would like to know the distance I have to stop more than the time if I’m worried about hitting something (or determining speed limits)

Lesson learned - If you’re unsure of something should be one-to-one or one-to-many, choose one to one. It’s always harder (if not impossible) to migrate from many down to one.

Lesson learned - If you have a one to one relationship in the same schema/database. It should be in the same table

It most definitely is. The heat from the skin produces steam

Isn’t it weird how you measure 0-60 in time, but 60-0 in distance?

I’ve had better success using Claude Code instead of copilot. The model in copilot feels nerfed compared to the version that’s in the CLI

Gearing up to try CachyOS. Really curious if it's faster than Fedora.

I have 4 cursor windows open now. I have reached peak... waiting...

It was odd at first, but our daughter has really grown into “FirstbornDaughterChild.cs”

Ah ok. I feel like this must be solvable problem. I’m wondering if I could keep that sort of session state in a redis database so that I can survive restarts

People think that this is a problem that only programmers have… But then they have kids.

The main problem I’m running into currently is that users have to re-log into the app every time I do a deployment with Blazor server. Could I use this to solve that issue?

The main benefit I’m seeing from this choice is the development experience is it’s slightly faster. Windows is pretty chonky and really struggles with development on thin and light laptops.

I’ve been developing exclusively on linux for the past year. Thanks to Jetbrains rider, it’s mostly seamless. I will say that for development you should always install dotnet via the shell script instead of using the package manager. Package managers do terrible things to SDKs