g0gzs's comments

I'd say I'm equally fluent in both because I put heaps of effort into my web dev skills so I could charge the same hourly rate and deliver the same quality I deliver for Desktop/Mobile. I adhere to certain standards when I put my name behind something I deliver to a client.

The amount of "oh yeah, it seems hacky but that's the best practice" on web is mindboggling. Every time I had to use HTML/CSS/JS hacks to achieve something rather simple in terms of laying out components on the screen, I wanted to quit working on the project.

The amount of work you have to put into web frontend to get it pixel perfect and according to the design, is roughly 40-50% more than achieving the same thing on let's say WPF.

Take it however you want, but what MS achieves in dev experience on their UI stacks is quite admirable. The fact that those stacks don't survive long is a another pair of shoes.

I see many negative comments about Microsoft and "yet another UI framework"... I started back in the Webforms/Silverlight days, and brough over my skills to each next iteration and had a pretty pleasant dev. experience ever since.

I was using the following: Silverlight -> WPF -> Windows Phone -> WPF -> Angular/webdev -> Xamarin.Forms and now since MAUI Preview 11, we've been building our new mobile/desktop product with it, and we'll release it soon.

The part where I was a web developer was honestly awful. Web frontend isn't even close to what any of those mentioned above are right now. Layouting stuff on the web is a nightmare, a little less now that grid is coming along, but still lightyears away from what you have in WPF/XF/MAUI... and then there's decoupling UI code from your business logics for testability. With Angular/React/Vue (Vue suted me most, but it's still meh) it's halfway there but still meh.

On the .Net stack, you have battletested frameworks and libraries that have been around for ages, on both, hobbyist apps to full blown enterprise solutions. At some point I was working on a desktop app that would run on a 5*6 monitor array (highway control room software)... 30 windows open in parallel from one app, everything in sync, everything just working 24/7. And now, we'll cover Android/iOS and Windows desktop, with one codebase, and it's not just a simple CRUD app. We're connecting with RFID readers, using cameras, geo service etc... I can't imagine pulling this off, in the timeframe we did, and the amount of devs working on it, with any other stack.

Yes, there's no Linux support, but the way MAUI is laid out, it shouldn't be too hard to get that going. Just look at who and how contributed the Tizen backend. I'm sure the folks at MS will welcome you with open arms if you want to contribute some effort into making Linux happen.

If you're operating in a grayish legal area, start worrying about laws once you're so big that your government worries about you. If I did my last startup now, I'd spend all the money I spent on lawyers, on marketing. By the time we had on paper that our business is operating within the law, we were down a big chunk of money that we later desperately needed to gain traction. If you fail, no one will care to sue you anyway (specially not your government). But if you make it, you'll have money for lawyers and money to eventually make it more legally acceptable.

I used the like/dislike ratio to see if something is actually a good video about the topic I'm searching, or should I continue further. For example, if I search "volvo s40 MAF sensor replacement", I won't watch someone ramble 20 minutes about how volvos are good, and why they chose the car in white instead of blue color... I want someone who'll pop the hood and replace the sensor, and those videos will usually have a better like/dislike ratio compared to the random rambling videos. The ratio was the telling thing if a "how to" video was good. I'd rather watch a video that has only 100 likes, but 0 dislikes, than a video that has 1000 likes and 5000 dislikes. But now that's gone, R.I.P.

Uhhh, the reasoning is such a slippery slope and will end up sowing more division among us. I wouldn't be mad at any unvaccinated person who would withdraw themselves as an organ donor due to this. Can't get, won't give. Fair play.

We live in such broken times, I hope we can bounce back from this, but I only see more and more fragmentation.

The bamboo boards I ordered had a higher density than ebony (1100 kg/m^3 for bamboo vs. 955 kg/m^3 for ebony) and according to the suppliers site, they are roughly the same Janka hardness. That's why I went for it.

Yeah, I was looking into buying a new instrument, then youtube started suggesting all those build videos. Eventually found the project guitar web/forums and went for it. Probably my favorite side projects so far.

Yeah, I cut the board I ordered into 4 stripes, rotated them for 90 degrees and glued back together with purpleheart veneer in between, to get the core/neck part.

I really wanna build one almost completely from bamboo (with various veneers to get some accents/lines in) but it's really hard to source boards now. Meh... but yeah, who would have thought that "tonegrass" would become a term someday haha.

121x20 cm board, 20mm thick was around 22 EUR + shipping. The shop I bought it from had 3 kinds of bamboo boards (normal, dark and some "figured" made up of dark and light stripes) but currently sell only the figured.

Long time lurker here, first time poster. I got pulled into the rabbit hole of building guitars at home during the covid lockdowns. My first build used traditional "tonewoods" (mahogany, ebony, rosewood etc.) and while purchasing materials for my second build, I stumbled upon bamboo boards on a German wood retailed shop.

Compared the properties to the wood I wanted to use for parts of it (mainly the core/neck and fretboard) and decided to go for it.

So the second build [1] is 40ish % bamboo with purpleheart veneers in between layers of bamboo and purpleheart/olive for the body. Next build will be around 80% bamboo. Trying to source some strand woven bamboo boards to try them out as fretboards as well, but for a part time builder like me, getting such small quantities of bamboo boards is rather hard.

But yeah, fascinating material even outside of construction use. The boards I used for the guitar builds were nice to work with, easy to sand and finish (using wipe on poly).

[1] https://i.imgur.com/fUyxd7n.jpg