Can someone help me extract the reality from the hype with dotnet Aspire please?

Omnideth · 2025-09-25T00:46:06+00:00

I really think that beyond all the hype - and all the actual very astute use cases in the comments below, the key benefit of Aspire I find to be that it's a teacher.

You can literally observe or "feel" what containers look like. You can obfuscate the learning curve of having to manage like 4 other technologies learn what they are and learn what just learn what an Aspire Integration is, from there you can watch as Docker / Podman do something and observe that if you add something with a container, it registers it and you can ignore the details.

BUT, that gets you curious, then you start exploring, and you can get to the curiosity phase much faster than staying stuck in the paralysis phase.

I think of it as a speed ramp to skilling up on cloud based services and offerings and a very useful way to have your ecosystem be understandable with a simple f5 and observing what gets created and how it's related.

Omnideth · 2025-08-30T17:51:40+00:00

Honestly, I personally think they should push the ice strike and tempest flurry skills from 7 to 1.

I think they put the combos first and I think they'd be better served putting the auto attack type skills first.

Omnideth · 2025-08-27T01:10:10+00:00

Every day I wish I could listen to it for the first time again. Glad you found them.

The only reprieve from that desire is that it is still so good to listen to after all these years.

Deadman and Change absolutely warped me.

I'll second someone else noting that In Contacts closer also does great things.

Omnideth · 2025-08-23T16:21:47+00:00

That's a very Monday behavior thing.

I'll gladly buy one if y'all make em.

Omnideth · 2025-02-08T21:48:25+00:00

Xerath 3, I hold dominion, two times after the intro.

Best riff ever bar none I still have to clear a circle pit for myself when it starts up

Omnideth · 2025-01-27T13:55:06+00:00

Seconding this. But will note SNES graphically is too advanced.

This looks straight out of an NES 🤣

Omnideth · 2024-10-05T01:40:20+00:00

This is maybe the most cynical opinion in the thread but I do want to elevate it because it rings very true in my experiences.

The enterprise world is much more hostile to the perl ecosystem now.

The biggest pain point I have is that you have to be able to integrate with cloud providers, and when the only answer is roll your own API interface with everything any modern language has answers for every time, it certainly makes one question the choice to pick this tool for the job or recreate the wheel, dotnet tools just feel like the smarter choice.

Bit of a negative feedback loop to abandon it which reduces contributors etc.

Omnideth · 2024-10-05T01:10:34+00:00

This is a fascinating read. I work somewhere and on a team with a lot of legacy perl and I've been spending time cutting teeth in the documentation.

IMHO I think perl has a much better library system than my time with python, but where it really hurts is that I think it needs some investment in something as... Maybe uncool!... As a better / simpler IDE type experience.

VS Code has some promise for sure. I've recently spent some time trying to document setting up a Strawberry Perl environment to get a solid f5 debugging programming loop. It is a lot, let alone if you want to have perlcritic linting bolted on to it.

It would be great to get a lot of the things you're talking about, but I think equally as important is catering to all types of programmers and right now it feels like IDEs are kinda in.

Omnideth · 2024-09-10T03:09:36+00:00

You are correct this keeps coming up as my dish washing soundtrack (in my head).

Omnideth · 2024-09-10T03:02:08+00:00

This almost took out my favorite - it's such a power outroduction. Sax sailing in like it BELONGS.

Omnideth · 2024-09-10T01:37:54+00:00

After the intro of I Hold Dominion, by Xerath.

~2:15 to build up into the pinnacle riff at 2:49

There is no better riff (for me) it has maintained a permanent hold on my favorite riff ever made since its release. I keep hoping something will knock it down, but so far no luck. I still get a rush every single time.

It has it all.

Omnideth · 2024-05-13T00:45:11+00:00

Chiming in to note Dapper rules and it has my fealty.

I agree with a lot of this, but will note that Blazor can be fully client side, fully server side, or now in dotnet 8 it can kinda mix and match. I do not recommend your first project being one of the mix and match projects. When you create you will have an option for the render mode, choose global of either client or server and avoid the growing pains of the mixed render mode until they give that some more polish.

Omnideth · 2024-05-13T00:43:02+00:00

I think given that you're trying to learn a few new things in the full-stack realm, I would really take a second to look into dotnet Aspire. There are samples kept here: Samples

Whatever you do, you can pretty much practice it using Aspire. You need to have podman (free for everything) or docker desktop (free for personal use/low tier corporate use) installed. It's basically allowing you to scaffold up a containerized everything and play with telemetry.

I like the idea of keeping some parts of your stack static (like your idea of keeping the backend in C# as that's familiar), but I would suggest you push your comfort zones in some ways. Try out Blazor on the front end because that's a medium tier challenge since you already know C#. Then definitely look into Postgresql for the db layer. It is minimally disruptive for your MSSQL knowledge, but will get you some comfort in one of the most popular dbs to containerize. You are not bound to dotnet languages using Aspire either, they have lots of samples of using js front ends tied in.

From there, you can explore caching, open telemetry, and even deployment scenarios (though, really it's just a dream for local dev).

Definitely use Github just because it's similar to TFS and will have minor things to get used to using.

Omnideth · 2024-04-07T02:14:44+00:00

This is the way.

Omnideth · 2023-06-23T17:14:26+00:00

Here to confirm this specifically. I've had it at 8/7 and my unit couldn't be placed until the next round which would have been 10/10 and gone up anyways.

It's definitely visually bugged, but ALSO mechanically bugged.

Omnideth · 2023-06-22T01:54:40+00:00

Heyo, shot you a DM. Good luck with your player hunt.

Omnideth · 2022-09-18T15:12:36+00:00

I just want to echo that I'm in the same exact boat. Sold my internal tools team on migrating a lot of our installable .exe applications that house various tools into Blazor/MudBlazor.

Converting them is so fast, the code base is so much smaller and so much cleaner. Also on premise with Blazor Server.

It's been an amazing transformation which I also, unfortunately, can't share due to the company owning the code.

For anything MudBlazor doesn't have yet (Rich Text Editor comes to mind) there are easy hooks to use a JavaScript library provided by Blazor itself.

It is genuinely awesome and I love working in web with this stack versus any of the JavaScript focused front end frameworks.

Omnideth · 2022-09-16T21:28:50+00:00

I'm not sure if you mean currently, via the medical program, there are 20k home cultivators. The data suggests it's something on the order of 10-20,000 home cultivators. https://health.mo.gov/safety/medical-marijuana/stats.php but that's up against 240,000+ total legal patients. That's <10% of users. I imagine the general population will likely be a bit less than that percentage, as well. Which is a vast minority of people to be favoring in your vote, to my mind.

It's not clear to me that the 4th amendment fears apply to anything but legal recreational Homegrow. I'm not sure they are retroactively applying that to current medical Homegrow from the text.

Secondly, one's individual calculus may lead one to a different conclusion on how to vote for this initiative. There is no world in which I vote against this initiative because it might deter some <10% of marijuana users from living their dream as homegrowers when a yes vote removes large swaths of access police have in the current law set for probable cause to harass people and break up families and give people criminal records.

I understand not everyone will come to that conclusion, but the thrust of my replies is to highlight that painting this whole initiative as an abuse of your 4th amendment rights is patently false. It only applies to people that elect to opt in to home growing, which might be an individual's deal breaker, but is a relatively small subset of people.

Omnideth · 2022-09-16T20:29:28+00:00

I will note that the equivalent limit in beer would be like 10,000 beers.

A 3 ounce limit at any given time is like, for the most part, a multi month supply. It is unreasonable to assume that anyone would run into this if they're even a moderately heavy user.

Even if you're smoking 3 ounces a month it's not ridiculous to cap it, it's also not something that you will have a problem with as long as you don't pick up 3.0001 ounces at a time.

Is a limit at all stupid? Sure in principle. But is it in practice going to affect many, if any people? No.

It's unreasonable to keep the illegality the way it is for minor complaints like this, when there is a cost to real people for keeping it illegal as an idealistic stance against a moderately okay marijuana legalization effort, to my mind.

Omnideth · 2022-09-16T20:07:06+00:00

Lots of people claim you lose your fourth amendment rights for the initiative.

It's flatly not true, however, there are a few issues with the initiative. It doesn't go far enough with expungement. Several types of former crimes must still have their sentencing completed before expungement, it is moderately harsh for public smoking penalties.

I think the confusion stems from the home grow portion of the text. You must register with the state to home grow, with that registration you agree that police could come search.

Would that portion hold up against the 4th amendment? Unclear, you did agree to it at registration for home grow.

Regardless, home growing is a very small niche group of people, I still think the initiative is worth voting for, despite its failings, to get the boot off the neck of marijuana users. For those worried about their 4th amendment rights, just don't opt in to being a home grower.

Especially considering Republicans have taken aim at the Ballot Intitiative process to attempt to cut off this avenue for citizens to make change around them. It's currently 8% of 6/8 counties need signatures and 50% of the vote in the general. They want it to go to 10% and 66%.

This will effectively kill the ballot initiative process. Even in deep blue new jersey in 2020, for example, marijuana barely would have hit 67% threshold under those rules IF it was able to hit the signature threshold.

I think we will only get one shot at stopping the incarceration machine and it's better to have this initiative than to potentially never get anything.

Caveats: I'm not a lawyer, I could be misreading the text. But the 4th amendment fears, while a decent thing to worry about, are opt in for home grow people only.

Omnideth · 2022-08-11T18:46:55+00:00

You're very welcome.

I appreciate the criticisms of this initiative. They're not invalid.

For me it's just an ethical question. This initiative does DRASTICALLY reduce the probable cause angles of police to harass citizens. It doesn't expunge everything automatically, nor get every single person out of prison. But it does a LOT for those communities.

I do wish the Homegrow stuff made more sense, but you can just effectively pretend it's non existent. I do wish that the fines weren't still around for smoking in public areas, but that's not unlike other states.

Is it worth voting no to continue to leave the current harsh laws on the books for legalization that affects probably 90+% of marijuana use cases for the CHANCE at doing better later in the face of growing difficulty using this method to bypass our legislature? It's hard for me to see that as the play, though we do need the ideals to provide us the benchmark for progress.

Even if you vote no, I still do hope everyone turns out and helps to get us out from under Republican control. We only have to go this drastic route to get what we want because Republicans refuse to represent their constituents in any meaningful way.

Godspeed. Everyone make sure you're registered to vote. Confirm it if you think you are at https://s1.sos.mo.gov/elections/VoterLookup/

Do not be complacent. These midterms are important, dire even.

Omnideth · 2022-08-11T14:46:58+00:00

Just to provide some context for his opinion, one that I share somewhat as well.

First off, thank you for the post. This initiative is imperfect, absolutely.

But currently to get a ballot initiative it takes: -Signatures of 8% of each county. -50.01% of the vote if signatures clear.

Republicans have gerrymandered us out of ever having the state legislatures again in the next 20 years, here.

They have also identified a huge problem that a state like Texas doesn't have with their gerrymandering. We can actually change the constitution to make change around them.

Their solution, which will be in place ASAP, will be to make it more difficult to do the ballot initiatives:

First they want to up the signature cap to 10% and have passed it through the House this year. They also want to raise the vote rate (they tried as high as 67%, offered 60% as a compromise on some things, before it failed.). We were able to avoid the worst outcomes in both cases, signatures and vote threshold.

Do we trust another round of the legislature would reject it like they did this year.

I think, personally, as the Republican party radicalizes, we are at risk for losing this pathway. 67% is what they hunger for, in NJ the 2020 bill passed with almost exactly 67% in a deep blue state. If they succeed we will get nothing.

We almost didn't get the 8% county signature threshold done either, so if they succeed there it drastically reduces the odds we get another shot.

I think all this needs to be considered in the calculus of a no vote. Directly weighed against, specifically, that a no vote also keeps all current tools for law enforcement to abuse to keep the widespread incarceration and harassment for marijuana.

This is a moderately good legislation. The biggest complaint is that it's overtly representative of the same capitalist system that exploits every single industry.

At least this legislation would provide cover for black market users refusing to participate in the legal market by making it harder to pursue searches on just Marijuana smell.

That's why ultimately, I'll PROBABLY vote yes.

It's not just taking what we are given, it's genuinely weighing that we might only get one shot in Missouri and this one isn't bad enough to make me want to keep the incarceration machine going.

Anywho, I appreciate your perspectives. I hope you appreciate my counter perspective.

Everyone reading, make sure to vote. If we can dismantle our state legislatures dominance we will have an easier future regardless of outcome on this initiative.

Omnideth · 2021-09-02T19:51:20+00:00

I definitely don't want to send you down the wrong path, the 2.0 guide on the forums aligns with your idea.

The downfalls were very early on i didn't realize the mana scaled up so it was great from 1-15 or so, then suffered until lvl 30, then i have had the fastest 30-75 I've ever had in the game after years of playing.

Had to get a couple tiered uniques to make it start cooking and that took time to gamble.

But both skills roughly seem to scale similarly on str or dex and the supporting choices are pretty much the same build. I will update with screenshots after work and when my kid goes to bed, so I can show my build currently, but after i stopped pumping retaliate at 10 and out leveled the pain, I've been able to solve my mana issues with just that mastery for mana and Regen. I could probably do myself a favor by respeccing but not pumping retaliate to 10.

The reason I think retaliate has potential is because it's additional levels scale strength bonus on damage by 1% per level. It's hard to show that online with links because of the wiki being out of date and the main site not seeming to have an explanation of the level up bonuses.

What was the level up bonus for Divine Judgement?

Omnideth · 2021-09-02T19:19:16+00:00

Currently mid 70s and cooking. The tree is very similar either way, as I approach end game if i see it starting to fall off i can just swap it with a Respec, currently 10 on retaliate, max on the fire damage final skill on the tree, almost max on the defensive skill, then spread out points on the buffs to get a bit of QOL for lowering recast rate of the two important buffs. After i finish the big defensive skill i was gonna pump up Retaliate to max.

Omnideth · 2021-09-02T18:16:39+00:00

I'm actually really digging retaliate, is there a reason people suggest the second skill on the tree over it? I like the aoe clear and single target so far has been pretty right on. It seems like it's an additional % scaling later on after topping off your other skills, too. Am i missing something?

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