Mike Goatly

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Software developer, professional and hobby. Guitarist and pretend musician. You can expect me to post about building stuff with Visual Studio, VSCode, C#, .NET, TypeScript, React, Avalonia, Raspberry PI, Azure and Kubernetes.

I'm responsible for maintaining the LIFTI full text indexing library for .NET (https://github.com/mikegoatly/lifti), and I also build Chordle in my spare time (https://www.chordle.com)

Opinions my own, always reserving the right to change my mind.

Bloghttps://www.goatly.net
GitHubhttps://github.com/mikegoatly
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Mike Goatly16h ago

My new job has required I use Google's Firebase, and in particular Firestore. I've been surprised by the memory consumption of the official emulator, and wondered if I could hack together in .NET that meeds our needs. I still don't know, but this is the result so far: https://github.com/mikegoatly/FirestoreSharp

#dotnet #opensource #gcp

GitHub - mikegoatly/FirestoreSharp: An open source .NET emulator for Google Cloud Firestore

An open source .NET emulator for Google Cloud Firestore - mikegoatly/FirestoreSharp

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Mike GoatlyJun 25, 2025
My feelings about #28yearslater can be summed up with this year's UK's Eurovision entry
Show threadMike GoatlyMay 30, 2025
I couldn't carry the top slab for this one by myself!
Mike GoatlyMay 30, 2025
Trying to show the kids that real life can be more fun than #minecraft!
Mike GoatlyMay 29, 2025
Thanks to the archive site https://arcarc.nl/ I found a public domain game called Arion that I wrote back in 1994 on the Acorn RISC PC! Having played it now, I'm impressed with the level of detail I put into it, but it's very hard - so hard that when you die, there's a random chance that a passing wizard will ressurect you so you can keep trying! #gamedev
Mike GoatlyMay 29, 2025
TIL that #LitRPG is a genre, and the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is a very funny, easy to read series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56791389-dungeon-crawler-carl
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found…

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Mike GoatlyMay 21, 2025
Does anyone else use `204: No Content` instead of a `404` as an API response to indicate "nope, that data's not here, but it's ok and normal" to avoid false-positive errors appearing in logs? (Specifically App Insights treating 404 responses as failed requests...) #aspnet #dotnet
Show threadMike GoatlyMay 21, 2025
Ok, so it looks like I'm 2 years too late for this! My approach is almost identical to https://github.com/riok/mapperly - it's nice to know I was headed in the right direction, but I'm not sure how much more effort I'll put into mine
Mike GoatlyMay 17, 2025
No spoilers, but the Tony Todd scene and how they integrated his character with the backstory in Final Destination Bloodlines was pure gold. His closing lines felt like they were directed right at the audience. #bloodlines
Mike GoatlyMay 9, 2025
I thought it would be nice to try to build an automapper-esque package using source generators instead of reflection. A lot of the core mapping logic is done, but there's still some way to go. If there's interest in it, I might keep working on it! https://github.com/mikegoatly/Mappit #dotnet #opensource
GitHub - mikegoatly/Mappit: An object mapping library using source generators

An object mapping library using source generators. Contribute to mikegoatly/Mappit development by creating an account on GitHub.

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