After 15 months of hard work, my dad has finished this impressive model of Minas Tirith! It is 1.4 m high and entirely hand-made out of wood. One of the most time-consuming parts was manually engraving the bricks on all walls and buildings, but this was key to properly convey the huge size of the city. Everything was painted by hand, adding some wear and tear. For a behind-the-scenes look at how he built this check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1Ywlc8ojjE

#lotr #MastoArt #art #craft

There's a common belief that remote work stifles career growth, especially for junior team members. I get where that comes from. In an office, knowledge often flows through hallway chats and desk visits.

But here’s the thing: that system only works if Bob isn’t too busy to explain how $RANDOM_PROCESS works.

In a remote setup (done right), good documentation and SOPs beat tribal knowledge every time. Combine that with accessible learning tools, and you suddenly have a career ladder that doesn’t require proximity.

Remember the warning that sending email is like sending a postcard.
Similar problem with embedding spaces.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.12540

Just bringing this one back up again. On the nose.

Edit to add the original source: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

ENAMEL - An RFC for a possible future XAML-based development | by Matt Lacey.

https://github.com/mrlacey/enamel

#xaml #devcommunity #dotnet

Announcing FSharp.Aspire.Hosting: A package to write Aspire app hosts in F#!
https://github.com/Tarmil/FSharp.Aspire.Hosting

* Includes the msbuild machinery and library extensions necessary to write Aspire AppHosts in F#
* There's a project template to create an F# AppHost from scratch
* Compatibility checked for many Aspire integrations available on NuGet; a few of them (including Azure and AWS) need an additional F#-specific package to be used.

#fsharp #dotnet #aspire #azure #aws

Fuck Trump and his victim-blaming.

Russia started this war, Russia can stop this war at any moment it chooses to.

If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war.

If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine.

#Ukraine

This library is a C# source generator designed to automatically generate string length constants from Entity Framework configurations and data annotations.

#sourcegenerator #entityframework #stringlength #dotnet

https://github.com/TarasKovalenko/EntityLengths.Generator