Cole | Development

A little insight to what I’m building for the @Ultra_io ecosystem… applying for a little grant to get it over the line.. Anyone will be able to build powerful marketplaces like ultraislife and ultra data powered dapps.. Will be open source.. ultraconnect.ultraislife.com $UOS

@mjovanovictech I think it depends on the desired outcome.. I used the strangler fig to upgrade applications from webforms to .net8 MVC incrementally.. microservices is another conversation and level of complexity that we didn’t require.. also be careful with MassTransit as it’s soon a paid prod

What's the Strangler Fig pattern? Strangler Fig allows you to migrate a legacy system incrementally. You gradually move specific pieces of functionality into new applications and services—an excellent approach for legacy systems. However, there's a smarter way to do this.

@stevensanderson I mean.. if you have a standalone page and it requires a simple bit of MVVM why not? It’s lightweight, simple, well documented.,

Something I didn’t expect to see - an updated release of knockout.js: github.com/knockout/knock…

Looks fantastic.. but why is my feed full of people building/designing the same dashboards with slightly different look/feel.. most of them aren’t actually production apps.. what’s the fixation? Is there that bigger market for generic dashboards?

@mjovanovictech Yes i do a similar thing.. in one of our solutions where there are multiple isolated features which are dependent on client I isolate the contexts by feature despite being in same db as some clients won’t implement certain features so don’t need any knowledge of it

Why would you want to use multiple EF Core DbContexts in the same application? Here are some excellent use cases: - When working with multiple databases - When you want to separate the concerns - When building a modular monolith - When you have a database read replica

@thebuggeddev All looks good but it’s a generic product.. a product built for the sake of building a product.. it doesn’t deal with the complexity of a real ecommerce application.. it’s effectively a demo, there is so much more needed for it to deal with the nuances of the real world

For anyone who still thinks AI can’t build real backend systems here’s my proof doing the talking 😉 I vibe coded a complete 21-page sales dashboard application with a fully integrated database and end-to-end functionality entirely using Codex GPT 5.3 model. It took around 35-40 prompts but many of those were just UI tweaks. Backend itself was finished in < 30 prompts. Entire execution time was < 5 hours, and I personally spent < 2 hours writing prompts. In other words, I vibe coded a full sales dashboard in < 7 hours without writing a single line of code. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?? Btw, this isn’t a basic CRUD project either. It includes everything you’d expect from a production ready system from full CRUD operations, persistent data storage, search and filtering, localization, organization management, user invitations, charts, webhooks, rate limits, security, basically all the things people love to say AI “can’t handle.” 🤣 Live: salex-navy.vercel.app

@noelcetaSEO Good list but you missed one important one.. add exclusions to robots.txt file so crawlers don’t crawl the faceted urls.. no indexing means they won’t get indexed but may still be crawled..

Ecommerce site with filters is SEO nightmare. Every filter combination creates new URL: - /shoes/ - /shoes/?color=red - /shoes/?color=red&size=10 - /shoes/?color=red&size=10&brand=nike 50 filters = 1 million+ possible URLs. Google's crawl budget explodes. Duplicate content penalties. Here's how to fix faceted navigation without killing filters: 🧵👇

@Dave_DotNet Very neat.. but “readonly”.. still a decent code saving though

C# Primary Constructor example #dotnet

@tomholz @BradAI @oliviscusAI Yeah that’s the conclusion I came to.. things are evolving so quickly.. just trying to keep up with new developments! Thanks for reply

@ncole_dev @BradAI @oliviscusAI From what Brad was saying, if you need live interaction, you probably do want to stick with ElevenLabs. The product guy in me would try an A/B test, but that's a lot of effort absent a strong business case.

ElevenLabs just lost its moat 🤯 Someone just dropped Voicebox, and it clones any voice from just a 3-second audio clip, running 100% locally on your machine. 100% Open Source

@tomholz @BradAI @oliviscusAI Hi. So it’s a medical training app so one persona will be a nurse and one will be the concerned patient… the user will be interacting with both

@ncole_dev @BradAI @oliviscusAI Do you have any hypotheses, intuition, or data around what voice generation characteristics matter for your target market and application?

@BradAI @tomholz @oliviscusAI So ElevenLabs is still your preference in this space.. I’m currently working with a company building an AI training app and we use ElevenLabs but always on the lookout for cheaper more effective solutions.. Cartesia is one we have just started to look at

You're spot on. In this space the full pipeline is STT, LLM, then TTS, all under 500ms for it to feel natural. You always have to make trade-offs somewhere. For example, if you're running an outbound lead gen campaign to a cold list, speed is everything. You shave off expressiveness to keep responses snappy. But an inbound customer service or tech support call? You can afford a little more latency, so choosing a more expressive voice with real empathy at the expense of 50 to 100ms is absolutely worth it. That's ElevenLabs' moat. Low latency, human-like voices, and the ability to choose the right model for the task at hand. Open source TTS doesn't give you that flexibility at production scale.

@samrithshankar @gkcs_ @linear 💯

@ncole_dev @gkcs_ @linear Makes sense, I think at the end of the day it boils down to what every team wants/needs/are comfortable with

I have moved from JIRA to Google Sheets, and the planning seems to be simpler. Maybe I am not able to understand how useful JIRA is. Could anyone explain the benefits? We are a startup of ~15 people, looking to manage tasks on a daily basis.

@AntonMartyniuk @mjovanovictech Yes been using this to migrate from .net web forms app to .net 8 app.. can use system webadapters to help with auth etc too!

@mjovanovictech We also need an API Gateway in Strangler Fig Pattern - to route traffic to a new and legacy endpoints. YARP is a good choice for .NET

What's the Strangler Fig pattern? Strangler Fig allows you to migrate a legacy system incrementally. You gradually move specific pieces of functionality into new applications and services—an excellent approach for legacy systems. However, there's a smarter way to do this.

@samrithshankar @gkcs_ @linear Also if your small team becomes a big team JIRA then can scale better with you

@ncole_dev @gkcs_ @linear I use JIRA daily and’s it’s not worth it for small teams. If you’re a small team using all of those things your mentioned, then you’re tracking useless metrics imho

@samrithshankar @gkcs_ @linear GitHub projects is cool but I’d say more useful for dev teams.. if you are a small business team with a mix of people, some non dev.. JIRA is still a great choice

@ncole_dev @gkcs_ @linear You can just use Trello, in that case. Or even better - GitHub Projects

@Zorii_ger @iskishor @gkcs_ Jira is free for less than 10 people.. many of my clients and projects find it very useful and once setup is easy to manage and track tasks

@iskishor @gkcs_ But most of the times that ends up in over managed projects doesn't it? I mean, 5 person startup paying jira, come on! Or all those Starbucks meetings that for some reason appear as 4 different things on jira.

@gkcs_ Some bad takes in this thread imo.. sheets is simpler but JIRA has many advantages - notifications, integrations (slack, GitHub etc) - images, videos easily added to issues - much more advanced visualisation of current work a - reporting, time tracking Its about requirements

@samrithshankar @gkcs_ @linear Looks very cool.. thanks for recommending.. however if you are a small team, less than 10 JIRA is free.. Linear only allows 250 issues which is nothing… JIRA is a free and very useful tool for small teams to visualise, assign, track and document work items

Don’t use JIRA. It is only good if you need audit and compliance when third-parties vet it (eg. Deloitte, PWC, etc.) coz they don’t understand shit outside of it. For small teams I highly recommend @linear if you’re a multi-domain team. If you are a developer-only team - GH Projects works like a charm.

@DenisGajcew @Dave_DotNet Yep.. agree with is this and am currently replacing in our solutions

@Dave_DotNet To be fair, MediatR is used mostly in a way that can be implemented on your own in less than 50 lines of code spread across ~5 source files. Unless more advanced features of MediatR are needed it's overkill in many applications.

Would you still use Mediatr for new project? 👀 This one is being asked at the moment on Reddit. #dotnet