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Visited the UK recently and had to obviously go through the same thing; had to click "I just want to use the online thing" 3 times. Was very frustrating. Someone else commented on …

Signal is also down for me.

Author of Odin is also against adding a package manager: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2025/09/08/package-manage...

Avalonia - https://avaloniaui.net/

Just the amount of perf improvements they have added since .NET 4.8, year after year, is staggering.

Have you tried Rider?

I hear a lot of complaints about dotnet watch, but my experience doesn't match. I just use it from the terminal (instead of running it from an IDE) and it mostly just works.

I'll add Orchard CMS to this list. Also a lot of the seven seas software.

csharpier is great. It is what "dotnet format" should be.

I mentioned this another comment, but the LLM requirement is more of a nice to have. What's more important is the overall experience: linux support, good trackpad, nice keyboard, b…

One of the issues was with a Thinkpad and another was with an Ideapad.

Running LLMs is more of a nice to have. If I can run something like DeepSeek-Coder-V2 even if it's a bit slow, I'll be happy.

Requirements: * Macbook is not an option * I go through phases and switch between Windows and Linux as my primary OS. * Want to be able to mess around with some local LLMs. * I tra…

Stephen Toub does an impressive performance deep dive blog post [0] every release. It's over 300 pages long! [0] - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

I recently read Stoner by John Williams. Would recommend.

Thanks. I have only recently become aware of the Cloudfare tunnels. What's your use case for running them exactly?

> many start-ups begin on VPS' and only move to the cloud when scalability becomes a real issue. This is the idea, yes. But I am hoping we can scale vertically for a long time.

This is my thinking as well! That is why I want to avoid the big 3.

A lot of people have asked about more details. I am going to reply here and hope it gets enough visibility. Right now, it's a simple web app + db + redis queue. We'll start with ju…

Do you use all 3? How do they compare in your opinion?

Thanks. I hadn't heard about vultr. How does it compare to Hetzner and Linode?