FiServ/CardPointe ISV building small business platforms, starting with @barberdotshop and @tattoodotshop.

Joined April 2009
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dotnet tool install xslt -> xslt 3.1/4 dotnet tool install xquery4 -> xquery 3.1/4
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they've all been ransomed lmao
Why are JavaScript people allergic to server side? Mention server side and they immediately treat you like an idiot. Clearly you can't build something that renders on a server.
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Seeing enough disturbing news about Google Cloud randomly shutting down service/access to start seriously considering a vendor that DOESN'T do that. WTF
It is 2016. Google Cloud has put a major customer through some bullshit situation easily resolvable by literally one human It is 2020. Google Cloud has put a major customer through some bullshit situation easily resolvable by literally one human It is 2026. Google Cloud has p
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Taxes are for assholes
We should federally tax Tokens at the Provider level. Not a lot. Less than 50c per million tokens. It will accomplish 4 things (at least ) 1. It will push the big AI players to optimize tokenization, caching , routing and localization Which will 2. Reduce energy usage. Saving them in energy costs more than what they paid in tax and reducing strain created by the growth in energy consumption Which will 3. Generate maybe 10 billion dollars a year to start, but over the next ten years could grow 30x to 100x Which will 4. Create a source of funding to pay down the federal debt or deploy, in response to the things AI brings that we don’t expect or don’t like At some point the models will pass it on to customers. Of course. That’s ok. Customers will have the ability to choose between providers. Or to do everything using open source models locally. Thoughts ?
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I don't think Claude gets enough credit for what it does in regards to the most odious work around unit testing
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Claude is fantastic when it comes to web UIs. Desktop UIs - not so much. Very painful!
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My hot take is that #dotnet isn't dead, it's that it's so good and mature that it's 'satisfied' and everyone working with it is immensely satisfied with it. Which is hard to write posts about sometimes. But, much like Jim, Aaron Stannard, and other greats on here, there's PLENTY of great things happening in the space - many great and mature platforms have been and are being built on dotnet, but most don't have the 'eyeball draw' of some of these 'here's how you write Claude skills to have agents talk to each other' posts that are in high fashion these days. But that's the difference between people talking about doing things, and people actually doing things. And this isn't even limited to dotnet, don't get me wrong - the point is, dotnet is far from dead - it's thriving!
The #dotnet community really is dead, isn't it? I share something absolutely mindblowingly awesome and its tumbleweeds. An equivalent in JavaScript garners thousands of shares and likes.
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Move to structured data (*cough* XML *cough*) and give AI something actually useful and contextual, and see how much more productive it gets
Move from Markdown to HTML and give AI a richer canvas to communicate output humans will actually read. Think plans, specs even throwaway editors. Like this idea which keeps more humans in the loop.
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Having Javascript as a bare-bones, minimal dependency is probably one of the single greatest things about Blazor development and not enough people are paying attention to that detail
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Extremely happy to announce that our barber.shop platform is now finally LIVE. I'm going to be honest -- even with Claude's help, this has been, by far, the most challenging platform I think I've ever worked on. The good news is, we've got about 7 more coming!
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that's the spirit
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It's apparently 100x easier to be a roofing company to ask for unsolicited bids for a roof I don't need or want than it is for me to set up a platform where, if you're asking for appointment updates, I send you your updates in a fucking text. I've literally had about enough
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> There's a startup pitch contest going on in South Florida > look to see what the entry field looks like > run into this on the submission form
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So it looks like we're finally, after a ridiculous amount of time, finally going live with @barberdotshop this week. I have some words about this, so I thought I would share them here.
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Every barber gets a profile page, their permanent home on the internet, all to themselves. A lot of these guys move around a lot. But when they work for a place, they become a SEO page for that shop. So if you have 5 barbers at your spot and they're all there, you have 6 pages
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There's a lot to the platform and we're already rambling pretty hard so let's just cut it short. But we're excited to bring this out (and its sister site salon.shop) and we think people are going to love it.
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