Ask HN: What are you working on today?

It's an automated crash logging thing that will collect info from your webapp every time it throws, ball it up and send it off to an API at our site. Then, on a schedule, we'll hit your site with the exact HTTP Request that broke it the first time.

So yeah, I'm hoping to get it "Show HN"-able inside of a week. The collection API is working, as is the regression piece. All it needs is some pretty reports and a bunch of documentation.

No screenshots today, but it's easy enough to find screenshots of Emacs+Slime.

-- HTML/CSS/JS cross browser issues are a huge problem. As a web dev I waste an INSANE amount of time dealing with them. Silverlight solves that issue (I've never seen the mac issues you spoke about though).

-- Javascript debugging is horrible. Firebug helps but it's not even close to using Visual Studio to step through a problem.

-- C# is a great language. I can use Ruby/Python/F# as well. The backend and the UI can both be developed in the same language.

-- It's a stateful environment. This one takes a mindset change but makes life so much easier than a stateless webapp. This one is huge IMHO.

-- XAML and the layout/databinding system are awesome. I don't need a phd in css and a pile of hacks to make a complex layout. Efficient and elegant layout are huge for productivity.

-- I like to unit test and it allows me to do model-view-viewmodel. Almost everything I write is testable and it feels elegant.

-- It's easy to make apps look good. The styling system is well done.

-- It's easy for ux challenged folks to make some decent looking animations and real ux guys can seriously impress. The animation system is awesome and Blend is a great tool for ux. The ux and animation support in Silverlight is something traditional webapps can't do.

Microsoft as a company deserves the bashing that it gets but it's developer division is top notch. Silverlight/WPF and the tooling to support it have a good lead on everyone else. I don't know that Silverlight will become a dominant player but I do think that people are underestimating windows phone. Silverlight/XNA are better than what Apple/Google are offering for mobile development. I also have a feeling that you'll see Silverlight on Android before long. Apple is going to be peering over there walls as Microsoft and Google pull away.

The rear wheel seems to be quite badly out of alignment. Part of it is bent to one side for about 1 cm and after fixing that down to 1 mm or less by trimming the spokes, there's still considerable vertical misalignment left.

Due to the horizontal misalignment the spokes and nipples don't have equally distributed configuration reserve, so it's pretty difficult to compensate against the slightly oval shape of the rim. While it's fun to fix things, I think I'll just go for a new wheel.

Other than that, the bike was a good find. The power transmission was in good shape (chains and gears ok, the derailleur and the gear changer work ok, ball bearings are ok) and it worked out of the box. I only replaced one braking cable and repainted one section of the body, and I think I'll go with that. Oh, I paid 15€ for it, and the good old ones are of a ten-fold better make than the cheapest bikes you can buy new.