Paul Knopf

Modules in a modular monolith can only talk through their public API. But how can you enforce this in your architecture? Architecture testing. ✅ Here's a code snippet showing a test case that checks the direction of dependencies between modules.ean you’re applying the other.

story of AI batshit crazy Microslop in two pictures🤣

After I'm done doing a long sesh of vibe coding, I feel like all my interactions with people are me giving them prompts to ponder and load into their context window.

I think the only software engineering practice I am dogmatic about is the fact that global shared mutable state is always bad.

A modular monolith is the best way to prototype microservice boundaries—without committing to distributed complexity.

I recently came across a team using an LLM to implement a state machine. They called it "agentic". They also told me it worked correctly most of the time. I asked them to write down the list of rules for moving from one state to another. They listed them out. It didn't take long for them to realize what was happening: They had built a solution using AI for a problem that didn't need AI. We removed the model and wrote some code to implement the rules. It might have taken 2-3 hours at most. They went from "it works most of the time, it's relatively fast, and it costs some tokens" to "it works 100% of the time, instantaneous, and costs nothing." So many examples like this recently. Golden rule: BUILD THE SIMPLEST THING THAT COULD POSSIBLY WORK.

@monosnap is there somewhere I can download the mac img for an M1/arm? I can't use the app store.

@WitsitGetsIt You'd think that after being so wrong about flat earth, you'd take some time to recalibrate your critical thinking/reasoning skills..

The world is a stage. This was all planned many years ago and it was known that this administration would carry this very thing out long before they entered office. The sooner you realize this, the sooner it will all make sense. If you think all of this is unfolding organically, you are doing exactly what they want you to do. They’re evil, not stupid.

@demisbellot @Sam75614812 @davidfowl have you tried this? jetbrains.com/help/webstorm/…

@demisbellot @Sam75614812 @davidfowl Oh? How's the IDE integration with it?

We’re about to take C# to the next level. Look out Python 👀 #dotnet #csharp

@demisbellot @Sam75614812 @davidfowl How much of what you've done in bun.sh is written in typescript?

@Sam75614812 @davidfowl No I just gave up on trying to use .NET for scripts and new global tools (now use npx). Still using .NET for most server backends and maintaining our existing dotnet tools.

@demisbellot @davidfowl sounds like cake, which I've had bad experiences with.

@davidfowl Ended up switching to bun/node which is easier to create & run with just ./script.mjs Proposed this for C# 5+ years ago but feedback from language designers was to embed C# in MSBuild so I gave up on C# and switched to JS where UX is much nicer github.com/dotnet/csharpl…

@HumanCompiler @Dave_DotNet "too many problems with EF" a tale as old as time.. pknopf.com/post/2019-09-2…

Lots or second to last, a little of the last, then eventually switched to Cosmos and dumped EF (though I still love EF in general). And yes, I know EF can work with Cosmos, but ran into too many problems and ended up building my own "mini-EF" and it works great! Might open source it in the future. I'm not a fan of reinventing the wheel but every now and then it can be a good idea. "bring things in house"

#dotnet devs, which one are you? 😂

yup...

@hypeartistmusic @BuiltWithDotNet Yeah.. I muted this twitter bot a while ago.. low quality/low effort posts.

@BuiltWithDotNet @pauldotknopf The project is dead as a stone

Open source desktop app built with .net core and c# by @pauldotknopf. "Qml.Net is cross-platform integration of Qml/QtQuick for Mono/.NET/.NET Core. It is a binding that brings .NET types into JavaScript with full interopera…" builtwithdot.net/project/36/qml…

@TheJackForge How many CRUD apps are written in React that don't need to be? Make Postbacks Great Again

@mjovanovictech I hate that "Angular/React" is so "default" to people..

Here's the tech stack I would use for my next side project: Frontend: Angular + TS Backend: .NET, ASP .NET Core Auth: Keycloak Database: PostgreSQL Deployment: Azure CI/CD: GitHub Actions What's yours?

@hindrikes Oh look, a super bad take! X needs a dislike button.

To use .NET 8 because it 's a LTS release is like Formula 1 cars should drive last years tires, because they now they worked then. But everyone knows that the new tires (.NET 9) is faster, more durable and more secure.

@sirpenski @Aaronontheweb Yeah, ok, keep your "simple solution" in your brain then... lol, take another sip of that koolaid.

@Aaronontheweb No they're not. Build scripts add another layer of complexity for new developers taking over old projects. Always keep things as simple and straightforward as possible.

.NET developers who've added Linux / bash / dotnet CLI into their workflow are in a totally different league than the peeps stuck in pure "whatever I can see in the Visual Studio UI" land