Month: March 2020 | Page 3

| March 15th, 2020

Yesterday I tried to follow some dotnet¹ tutorials that also show some Azure concepts. These were all tutorials and documentation on the Microsoft website itself. For context, I was using my desktop PC, which runs Linux²

The initial setup worked great. I installed Core, the Azure CLI, and various useful extensions for VS Code. Then I created a new Web API project from a template, which ran on my PC without issue. Finally, I used the Azure CLI to setup an App Service I could deploy to from Git. So far, so good.

Things went downhill when it came to putting everything together and tried to deploy to Azure. My code would be committed, I could see the deployment churning away for a couple of seconds, and then it would crash out with a build error; my project was targeting dotnet Core 3+, but Azure apparently only supported targeting up to Core 2.2.

I tried a couple of things to try fix it, but I haven't been successful yet. I'll start over from scratch again when I get back to it. But it does make me wonder how well someone with even less experience in this stuff than me would get on.

I'm going to keep using this instead of the “.NET” branding I never really liked ↩︎
Can I just remark on how cool this is. The last time I was using dotnet it was still Windows only. ↩︎

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Chris M.

| March 15th, 2020

It’s ok… Dr Mario will save us 💊

Chris M.

| March 13th, 2020

💬 Replied to: Own Your Followers: Redirecting Feeds on the Web

“Every four months or so I go through and tidy up many of my feeds. Invariably a dozen or so feeds die out, but I’m noticing a recurring quirk. Most of them are within my IndieWeb folder!
A lot of the changes seem to be related to people who are shifting from one shiny toy or project to another. Th…”
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I installed the Redirection plugin on my site purely because I needed to redirect from my old Jekyll-generated feed to the WordPress feed when I migrated over. /me engages "smug mode" 😅

It used to be people used FeedBurner to provide an unchanging address for their feeds (and fix the *many* problems in various RSS/Atom implementations at the time). The idea was that it was independent from your blog software, so could be a fixed point of truth. All the site owner had to do was update the configuration whenever they switched software. Eventually FeedBurner was purchased by Google, went out of fashion, and people slowly forgot about it…

FeedBurner itself is – surprisingly – still running, and I bet a good proportion of the feeds linked to it still work – whether or not they’re still active. I know when I logged in last year there were a bunch of my own still merrily chugging away without any intervention. Many of my oldest subscriptions still seem to use it, too.

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Chris M.

| March 10th, 2020

Reposting: Sarah Cawkwell on Twitter

“Idea.
If you’re one of those people panic buying staple goods in bulk, when this passes and you have excess dried pasta and loo roll and tinned goods, consider donating them to a foodbank.
If you plan to bulk buy, buy extra for a foodbank.
Don’t be one of Those People.”
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Chris M.

| March 10th, 2020

Someone’s been messing with my keyboard key caps…