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Most consumers no longer purchase desktop apps, so there's no way to support desktop development. However, for some reason, many consumers will happily subscribe to SaaS apps. So d…

Ironically, TN just announced a new plate that looks very similar to this design (which says it is from 2014). https://www.tn.gov/governor/news/2021/10/5/gov--lee-unveils-... It ev…

Indeed. One of the main reasons we abandoned Pinta ( https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta ) is we had to rewrite a significant portion of the app if we wanted to move to GTK3, as …

Many comments (probably correctly) point out that SQL can't be displaced because it is ubiquitous and "good enough". I wonder if there is room for a "TypeScript" of SQL that would …

Seems like there might be more to it than that, since Slack is written in Electron and is in the Windows Store.

It's amazing how often perfect storms happen, since every outage is apparently caused by one.

Particularly because the linked post calls it "Creative Common" twice and "Common Clause" elsewhere.

It depends on what you consider the goal of the F-35 to be. If you believe it's to build a next generation fighter plane then yes it's a disaster. If you believe it's a way to funn…

Ultimately there is very little consumer grade software anymore because modern consumers won't pay for software. The only people who pay for software are enterprises and they aren'…

"No more games. Save real money with Bolt's simple pricing." Followed up with "Get a Quote" rather than displaying simple pricing...

Thanks! Yeah, GitHub is definitely the way to go for OSS or projects with technical users. This is designed more for things like closed source apps or SaaS.

I built https://communiroo.com because I couldn't find a quick and simple single website to expose bug/feature tracking + SO type questions + forums + support requests for my other…

I have a friend who is a medical researcher and it definitely seems they are stuck in the past. In order to study something, he has to: * Come up with a hypothesis that X may cause…

Tennessee has no income tax, so I'll gladly take 9.46% sales tax and no income tax over California's 8.48% sales tax plus 1% - 13.3% income tax.

Author here. Communiroo grew out of a need after I had created my first hobby mobile app. I wanted a single place where users could file bugs, make suggestions, have discussion for…

Forgot to mention I also ported my personal side project to ASP.NET Core and had the same experience, it's a fairly decent sized live site. https://communiroo.com

I work for a very mature startup, and recently led our first site on ASP.NET Core. The framework itself is very nice and very solid, basically a "do-over" of all the previous ASP.N…

https://communiroo.com - I created a mobile app and wanted a single, easy-to-set-up site to direct users to for bug reports, feature requests, forums, and support, but I couldn't f…

The solution that we use for this is to have a separate domain for dev with its own wildcard certificate, like company-dev.net.

The issue is more that companies should pay US taxes on profits made in the US. However they can use IP to move those profits to countries with lower tax rates. The way it should w…

It depends. The reference source site code is MS-RSL (see the License link in the upper right). Some of the source is additionally available under MIT from the github repository, b…

From next year's Call of Duty: You were killed by L33TGUY37. You are out of lives for today, would you like to: - Purchase 5 more lives for $2.99? - Spam your social media for life…

Nice! If you're interested in pixel manipulation in .NET, there's also Pinta.ImageManipulation built out of the source code for Paint.NET and Pinta. https://github.com/PintaProject…

"Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea" That sounds suspiciously like what someone who was going to steal your idea would say...