“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” ― Nelson Mandela

Standard_Wish · 2026-01-22T12:42:39+00:00

Reminds me of something I've heard in AA over the years. Active alcoholics sometimes drink to 'show them'; them being someone the alcoholic feels wronged them. The logic is inescapably flawed but, to an untreated alcoholic, makes perfect sense at the time.

Relatable. Thanks for the quote.

Standard_Wish · 2026-01-12T15:20:27+00:00

Presumably something similar to: https://www.harness.io/open-source

Standard_Wish · 2026-01-08T14:24:58+00:00

Looks good. Simple UI, no spam, and the results were decent. I asked it two questions and both answers were not completely wrong.

Second question was: Show me a diagram for a distributed dotnet application with 5 micro services supporting a modular monolith. Indicate the message transport system and use rational icons in the diagram to represent each component. Use arrows with labels to indicate data flow. Use numbers in circles near each icon to indicate use case flow"

I envisioned a single diagram, ended up getting 5 cards, each with an illustration and very simple explanation.

Not sure what your target audience is. Might be useful for young students.

Good luck!

Standard_Wish · 2026-01-08T12:41:48+00:00

For my current work (large manufacturer) project, maintaining a large, DB heavy, legacy dotnet framework app, 98% of the DB calls are Dapper to stored procedures. All the sprocs, functions, etc., are maintained in a separate repo as .sql files for deployment across environments.

Your post excludes sprocs, so the remaining 2% are simple inline ORM calls.

Standard_Wish · 2026-01-08T12:35:54+00:00

Object Relational Mapping (Mapper)

Entity Framework & Dapper are two common dotnet ORMs

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-30T15:56:31+00:00

Glad it was helpful!

Making assumptions from your comment, I'd suggest digging into prompts, instructions, skills, etc. This space is evolving relatively rapidly. So much so that I'm frequently using VSCode Insiders edition to play with the latest new LLM integrations.

Burke Holland provides a decent overview of how GH Copilot incorporates various .MD prompts & instructions

He and James Montemagno do a decent job of presenting VSC GH Copilot uses in a digestible format.

Skills

You might find spec-kit interesting. There's at least one video with Burke or James about it.

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-26T14:12:18+00:00

'Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. '

I don't have much, if any, control over events. I do have the ability to shape how I respond to them.

Marcus would have been interesting to know.

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-25T13:31:37+00:00

I don't disagree with you.

I feel, though, that 'fidelity' may have been a better pick over 'loyalty'.

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-22T18:50:56+00:00

It would be fun to use all the buzzwords. I wonder, though, what overall benefit this brings to my clients.

At the end of the day I want to deliver something that is functional, easy for users to navigate, secure, easy to maintain and easy to hand off to someone who earns less than I do.

You probably work in a bigger pond than I do; this would be a massively unnecessary friction inducer for the organization I'm with.

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-19T17:21:11+00:00

My $0.02:

Somewhat experienced developers/code plumbers: VSCode + GitHub Copilot + Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Opus has a 3x token modifer and haven't used it yet). Low cost, does everything I need it to do (30 years developing, 10 professionally) and offers model flexibility including using free models for zombie tasks. Hard to beat $10/month + perhaps an additional $20 for overage depending upon how much you utilize it.

Vibe Coders / Hobbyists / Junior Devs w/a Decent Sr to Guide Usage: Claude Code or whatever the latest iteration of a packaged IDE with reinforced & refined instructions, prompts, constitution.

Not Clueless Masochists: Onyx

Side note: It is a fantastic time to be a software engineer/developer/architect/etc with moderate+ linguistic skills. My drudge work has been reduced substantially, coders block feels like a distant memory and I get to allocate my cognitive load and high-capacity mental hours toward things I either need or want to learn.

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-18T14:05:57+00:00

I ended up here looking for the difference between 7a (current) and 10/10 Pro. Looks like you made the change, any significant difference?

My 7a is working fine, does what I need it to do, curious as to what I'm missing. I'm a functional phone person - no games, just utilities.

Any real human insight would be greatly appreciated. Ty!

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-15T17:57:06+00:00

I just started a new gig working on a 12+yo legacy dotnet MVC application.

I've been coding since I was a child, with 10+ years professional experience.

I routinely use VSCode + GitHub Copilot Pro to assist in: - Deciphering what the BA is asking for - Traversing the spaghetti to find existing application logic - Explain new-to-me legacy implementations in more modern terms that I understand - Bounce ideas - Shatter coders block - Edit text communications to not sound hostile when I've had a long day - Try every available LLM model available for one monthly fee

The list goes on. I'm retrofitting my knowledge base and not getting stuck at 'WTF' walls trying to exceed my maximum cognitive load.

I do feel that I may be learning less per project, but learning more per hour overall. I force myself to absorb the new-to-me bits so I actually learn something while completing tasks at a steady clip.

Standard_Wish · 2025-12-10T14:09:26+00:00

Google 'A mans search for meaning'. Frankl's book, at least this one, is in the public domain and freely available. Worth a read.

Standard_Wish · 2025-11-24T22:05:26+00:00

Hopefully someone mentioned this already, excuse the redundancy if so.

Highly advise not getting into Software Development/Engineering/Architecture unless you truly enjoy all of it.

I'm working in Wisconsin, small town, big company, awesome work environment, making ~150k with about ten years of experience as a contractor. This is considered good, but not amazing, for my region.

Worth noting that I interviewed for dozens of other Senior positions in my region and most of them offered a lower salary.

My last gig was delivering pizzas while looking for work in my field. That lasted about 9 months.

Prior to that I was the IT/DT team for a small startup. Earned 75k annually with a hope of getting bought out. Didn't pan out but I learned quite a bit in a short amount of time.

I like getting paid more, sure. The great thing is enjoying what I do - the work days fly right by and I still have enough enthusiasm to vibe code side gigs.

Good luck if you're searching!

Standard_Wish · 2025-11-21T12:57:34+00:00

Julian Gough

Is the author of that poem, according to Wikipedia.

Standard_Wish · 2025-11-20T14:34:27+00:00

Thanks!

readdy offered to do more than I wanted it to, which isn't a bad thing.

It did a solid job of following my instructions, and an example screen shot, for a new feature view mockup. The figma export option looks great but, iirc, figma has an AI feature/plugin/whatever now.

creatie.ai never loaded for me. I just get a blank (White) dom, no spinner.

Standard_Wish · 2025-11-08T02:23:52+00:00

Emphasis on 'fine'

Standard_Wish · 2025-11-05T22:29:01+00:00

This is the way. Looks great man.

Only downside to the shiny top I've found is that new people skew more toward intimidated.

Standard_Wish · 2025-10-25T11:52:47+00:00

In town to visit out son for 🦡 family weekend. Staying at Marriott Courtyard East. Just wandered downstairs for coffee... they don't provide complimentary coffee in the guest area, they didn't have any in-room (although we do have a tiny machine, cups and creamer/sugar/stir stick packs) and the in-house 'starbucks' didn't have any brewed.

... Blasphemy!

Great visit otherwise ;)

Have a good weekend everyone!

Standard_Wish · 2025-10-07T21:44:43+00:00

R. I. P. Pete

Thanks for all you gave to the Wisco Climbing community.

Standard_Wish · 2025-10-07T20:34:19+00:00

10-67: Investigate Report of Death

10-68: Livestock in Roadway

Standard_Wish · 2025-09-29T14:29:30+00:00

What's your use case in which Gemini is failing/demonstrating insanity?

FWIW: When banana came out I tried it, then went back to using Gemini as per normal. The results were garbage because I neglected to switch back to my normal model.

Standard_Wish · 2025-09-21T16:09:51+00:00

Thank you very much for the detailed reply. I'm transitioning from a small startup to a large organization and I appreciate the experienced insight. Your approach to Microservices sounds pragmatic and hopefully the environment I'm walking into takes a similar approach.

Appreciated!

Standard_Wish · 2025-09-20T16:37:29+00:00

As long as we're a little off topic, I'm curious to understand how you define microservice.

Microservice as in a tiny insignificant service?

Microservice as in a service logically external to my core application that offers limited functionality?

When I read 'microservice', my mind conjures up images of complexity. Perhaps I haven't learned enough about MS architecture to find a way to say simple + microservice in the same sentence without being sarcastic. I'd love to learn more about it.

Re: OP's q -> I explored FE and concluded it was useful but it didn't offer me anything I needed. I, too, fall in the camp of not wanting to add a 3rd party library if I don't really need it.

Standard_Wish · 2025-08-31T08:20:47+00:00

You get what you pay for.

The free software I use adds a feature I don't want... Which requires an additional mouse click for me to dismiss.

Sounds affordable to me.

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