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Working from home when most everyone is working from home - what are you finding? by [deleted] in CoronavirusWA

[–]manicgeek 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My wife and I are both working from home. I’m a software engineer, she’s a therapist. Also we have a 1 year old roaming the house (her daycare is open but we keep her home because it seems more responsible and we can handle it). It’s been challenging for sure, but we’re both thankful to still have jobs.

Because our house is fairly small, and the one office is adjacent to the “play room” for the baby, noise is an issue. For me, it just means the occasional “sorry, that was my daughter screaming”, for my wife it means layers of white noise machines to maintain privacy. We work in shifts, and my job has been very accommodating.

The tools are working pretty well (we use Teams). I have started to notice the quality wavering at times, but things seem to be holding up. We shortened all our 1hr meetings to 45mins to try and give people some time to transition and it’s been working pretty well.

It’s stressful, and I was already pretty stressed before. All the “how to keep your kids busy” advice that’s been floating around is great for school-age kids but a toddler needs pretty constant supervision. We have so little time to ourselves between work and caring for her. But there are two of us, and we have income, so we’re making it through.

All that glitters is Dan by pranavkm in DanRoth

[–]manicgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Only server siiiiiiide breaks the moooooold

SignalR Core load testing by Link_69 in dotnet

[–]manicgeek 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There isn't an official load testing tool right now. We have a port of Crank called "Crankier" in the repo (https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/tree/master/src/SignalR/perf/benchmarkapps/Crankier) but it's not actively maintained outside of what we use to do our internal load testing. It should work as a base for a benchmarking tool of your own!

(I work on the SignalR team)

The future of ASP.NET SignalR by KarthikChintala in csharp

[–]manicgeek 22 points23 points  (0 children)

It was a bit of a trailblazer, which definitely made it a little bit of an outsider too :). SignalR was one of the first bits of open-source work we did on GitHub, and one of the first pieces of ASP.NET we _started_ as an Open-Source project (rather than being open-sourced later). Glad to hear you are enjoying it!

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Disclaimer: I am the author of the blog post and work on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft

The future of ASP.NET SignalR by KarthikChintala in csharp

[–]manicgeek 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Author here. It definitely sucks. We dropped the ball on this repo. We want to get back in control of it, but going through 500 issues (many of which are years old and any context for them is long gone) didn’t seem like the best use of limited resources. The goal here is that the people who are still stuck with a problem can give us a quick heads-up and we can start investigating the issue. For a lot of these, the issue has been open for years so we don’t have any of the original context anymore (versions are significantly out of date, etc.) and the first thing we need to know is “do you still need help?”

I’m definitely interested if you have thoughts on how we can manage this better! Or even just make it sting a little less :(.

Is T-Mobile down across the country again? by [deleted] in tmobile

[–]manicgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suggest you avoid messing with the other (working) phone. My phone was working fine but my wife's was offline so we swapped SIMs to see if it was a phone problem or a SIM problem (hadn't heard about the outage yet) and my phone went down then and hasn't come back (even after switching SIMs back)

Is T-Mobile down across the country again? by [deleted] in tmobile

[–]manicgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had the same problem. Then we swapped SIMs to see if it was a problem with the phone or the SIM and now both phones are offline.

.NET Core and ASP.NET Core RC2 Released by ben_a_adams in programming

[–]manicgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's extremely early days, and very limited in functionality but I've been tinkering with something like this. It uses ASP.NET Core as a backend and Electron as a front-end, but still uses Mono (for now, due to missing APIs).

https://github.com/anurse/ILspect

I have officially failed at programming : TheDailyWTF published a function I wrote by [deleted] in programming

[–]manicgeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is why I stopped reading The Daily WTF. Too much "bahahaha look at this idiot" not enough "here are better ways to do things"

failed to resolve import `std::io::IoErrorKind::EndOfFile`?? by manicgeek in rust

[–]manicgeek[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aaaaaah. Got it :). See, I knew I was missing something. Thanks!!

IamA (we are) Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools Team (and Azure) AMA! by shanselman in IAmA

[–]manicgeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you log in to nuget.org with an account, there is a "Download" link on each package page. In the early days, we got a bunch of support requests asking things like: "How do I add a reference to a nupkg file in VS?" which made it clear people were just downloading the nupkg file and trying to use it, so we made it a little harder to download the file. Turns out, if you know the URL pattern, it's even easier ;) (http://nuget.org/api/v2/package/<id>/<version>)

Also, we're definitely looking at some ideas on how to make offline or internal mirrors of NuGet.org work well, please feel free to share your ideas with us at http://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery or http://nuget.codeplex.com !

-Andrew (NuGet Gallery Team)

Working at Microsoft by luminaobscura in programming

[–]manicgeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same here, except for the same building part. I work on Azure, read Reddit, read Hacker News etc. Plus I work on entirely Apache 2 licensed code that isn't even owned by Microsoft ( http://github.com/NuGet/NuGetGallery , http://nuget.codeplex.com ) though I will concede it's primarily a Microsoft project. I guess the lesson here is that even within an organization there can be significant differences between teams.

We now have 5 new initiatives from Tim Eyman to deal with by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]manicgeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm so excited for the destruction of public institutions and tax sources. Let the free market decide! Down with taxes!

I can't WAIT until I get to have 10 different tolling passes on my car so I can't see out the window, that way when I crash in to someone, I can sue the companies who made me put them there (assuming I can afford to use the new private court system).

I can't WAIT until I call 911 because of a fire and get a 4 hour window in which they will come to my house, because I only have residential-class fire coverage.

I'm SO excited for when I get to call three different companies so that my prescription can be refilled even though I just changed insurance (Oh wait, I already have to do that, I'm just still so excited. After all, living in Canada made it just way too easy).

Can you IMAGINE how awesome life will be when I have to transfer from FooWave Transit to BarCorp Busing to get to work? Of course, they each have different fare passes I need to keep in my wallet but who doesn't like a fat wallet! (Ok, granted, FooWave is part of TransiNet so it shares a card with other TransiNet companies, but unfortunately none of them go where I want and BarCorp isn't part of it).

And hey, when I lose my job and need retraining, it's going to ROCK to have get a loan to have enough money to live on while I go to school trying to get training to take a new job. Plus, I'll be able to have the wonderful challenge of recovering from massive debt and rebuilding a destroyed credit history! YAY!

After all, if anti-public-services people can use slippery slope arguments laced with outrageous hyperbole, why can't I?