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Mike Goatly
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Professional software developer. Guitarist and pretend musician. You can expect me to post about Visual Studio, VSCode, C#, .NET, TypeScript, React, Avalonia, Raspberry PI, Azure, Kubernetes and more.
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Also seen in Whipsnade Zoo, UK!
Wooden tool statue with two children pretending to be caught in it's net
August 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I couldn't carry the top slab for this one by myself!
A small, human-made stone structure stands on a beach covered with small, smooth pebbles. The structure consists of several flat, grey stones carefully balanced on top of each other. Two larger, somewhat vertical stones form a base, supporting a long, flat stone horizontally across their tops. On this horizontal stone, two more rounded, flat stones are stacked, with two very small, flat stones placed on either side of the top stack. The sun casts a shadow to the right of the structure.
May 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Trying to show the kids that real life can be more fun than #minecraft !
A close-up shot shows a stack of smooth, flat grey pebbles forming a cairn on a beach. The stack is arranged somewhat like a human figure, with two larger, elongated stones serving as legs, a wider, flatter stone above them acting as a base, and several progressively smaller stones stacked on top to form the body and head. The pebbles are wet and have a slightly darker sheen. The background is a blurred view of a pebble beach leading to the ocean, with gentle waves breaking near the shore under what appears to be a bright, sunny sky.
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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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
A game screenshot - top left: Text describing sounds that can be heard in the dungeon, including "Faint noise, north". Top right is a mini map showing the player's location and two icons indicating that noise can be heard, and a torch is lit. Bottom right is a large view of the play area, including a ladder that can be climbed. Bottom right are the player's stats.
May 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Progress!
April 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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It look trivial, but I've spent a *lot* of time working on a grouped listbox for my Chordle rebuild in #avaloniaui - I still need to add semantic zooming, but one step at a time!
April 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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There are questions that I would rather not know the answer to... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Snipping from the article: At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), he said, similar strategies are being used to detect incredibly rare events that hold the key to how particles came to acquire mass in the first moments after the big bang and whether our universe could be teetering on the brink of a catastrophic collapse.
February 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM