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.
| Blog | https://www.goatly.net |
| GitHub | https://github.com/mikegoatly |
| Pronouns | He/Him |
10+ years ago, I built Chordle for Windows 8 (WinRT). Then I rewrote it for Windows 10 (UWP).
Today, I'm closing in on completing my biggest rewrite yet. After 2.5 years of spare-time work, it's now powered by @avaloniaui and is finally going to go cross-platform!
Here's a side-by-side of the original WinRT UI and the new look.
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
