Rob Mensching
@robmen
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@firegiantco CEO & Co-Founder | Benevolent Dictator of @wixtoolset | https://t.co/Irqq1LMRJj for more information
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Joined March 2008
Deployment Dojo S2E3 is Live! tomorrow morning at 10:30 AM. Here's a 30 second refresher from episode 2.
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Does anyone know of any _total beginner_ programming content? I'm mostly finding garbage or content that isn't beginner enough. I don't really have the time to start another YouTube channel myself.
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Funnily, designing features with AI chat is the first time I've felt that typing speed actually matters.
People outside tech starting to realize how quality software and typing/generating code fast are not correlated
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Interesting. After a quick review of the issue, I think this adds credence to our yearly cadence for the WiX Toolset.
I'm trying one more time to change the Node.js release schedule. What's your take on this?.
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We're only two episodes in, and I feel like we're already back in the groove with season 2 of the Deployment Dojo!. Learn tons about MSBuild targets in this episode. Oh, and the FireGiant Cinematic Universe expanded, too.
Deployment Dojo S2E2: Stay on target
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. how well Mint breathed life into this old machine. She had zero problems navigating the UI and is catching on to the terminal basics. Her program is a mess of copy and paste. But it's a beautiful place to introduce variables, loops and functions. And it's hers. :).
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My 10yo wants to learn to code this summer. Tonight we "upgraded" a Win8.1 computer to Mint Linux. She installed VS Code, Bun, Sox and in 3hrs (with some guidance) wrote her first .ts that played notes and tts (with spd-say) as a "song". She had the best time. I was impressed. .
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This is a surprisingly good write up about Section 174. We survived the initial hit at FireGiant but it was very, very painful. It still hurts but we're getting close to the 5 year schedule. I should've recognized how it'd turn into layoffs elsewhere.
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RT @firegiantco: Deployment Dojo Season 2 Episode 2 is tomorrow at 10:30 AM PDT on the FireGiant YouTube Channel I….
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Deployment Dojo S2:E1 replay available! Stef reviewed, so if you watched Episode 1 live, a review before Episode 2 is worth it. :). Also, our content schedule at @firegiantco is in the blog post. Something is happening every week on the Wednesday.
Deployment Dojo S2E1: MSBuild Basics the Property, Item, Target
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I've seen this a few times: "huge win for open source". What does that mean? Look, Open Source already won. It doesn't need more validation. What Open Source needs is sustainability. If projects had a path to long term success, well that would be quite the Win.
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What disappoints me about these YouTubers is that they happily promoted these Open Source Projects as long as they were completely free (as in $0). Thus they reinforce a culture that something is bad unless it is available for $0. All the while, they make $ talking about it. :(.
Eff this. Seriously. This is moronic. I loathed having to support people with StructureMap/Lamar who got themselves twisted up in knots doing stupid unnecessarily complicated things w/ open generics to make this work w/ very early MediatR. This is a Pandora's Box of pain.
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RT @jeffwilcox: We're obvious fans of the Wix Toolset and excited to sponsor its Open Source Maintenance Fee and learn from how @robmen is….
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OMG! This is seriously great. Why didn't I think to look in Options > Save before?.
If you don't like the madness you have to go through to save a Excel/Word file to your local computer, these settings are for you. I really don't know who allows people to ship such a crap.
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Wait, there are actually people who call themselves "Computer Scientists". I mean, I have a CS degree, but I've never called myself a Scientist. Not seriously, anyway. 😜.
Computer Scientists love to distinguish themselves from programmers stating they study computation in the abstract. But very few CS nerds ever study anything beyond digital computers and their dogma. Case and point: mechanical computation. I don't know any CS peeps who can.
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Haven't seen this meme in a while. This was normalized by Windows a long time ago (there are limitations). I do wonder exactly what the push back is this time. :).
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I had a great conversation with Carl and Richard about the Open Source Maintenance Fee: I really appreciate how supportive and genuinely interested they are in getting more sustainability ideas out into the world. I'll write up more when I get some time.
How do we keep important open-source libraries thriving into the future?. @robmen talks on .NET Rocks at about an open-source maintainer fee through GitHub!.
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