Ian Clark
theboxfactoryhq.bsky.social
Ian Clark
@theboxfactoryhq.bsky.social
Englishmen in Chicago (not New York)

#net #csharp #blazor #aspnet #web #consulting

It's always a joy to upgrade to the latest version of LINQPad (in this case 9). Not a product to rest on it's laurels, and always evolving. Perfect to help you learn, explore and experiment with C# and LINQ.

#linqpad #dotnet #linq #csharp
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I wonder if @scott.hanselman.com and other #commodore64 fans have seen this piece of #c64 creative coding / art? - 10print.org #retrocomputing #creativecoding
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
About 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, a book from the MIT Press
10print.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This by @ftrain.bsky.social from aboard.com resonates so much with me - " I grew up reading about software. Now you have to try everything, or watch videos of people trying things. That’s exhausting and expensive, whereas reading is cheap and fast—and you can skip to the pricing if you’re bored."
Aboard
Business Software. Built by AI. Perfected by People
aboard.com
August 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
@scott.hanselman.com - @jonudell.bsky.social has a long history of working on projects that are community centric and on the 'good side' of tech. The framework he is now working on xmlui.com may be of interest for the podcast
xmlui.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@scott.hanselman.com you might like to take a look at rwsdk.com - @rwsdk.bsky.social as a possible podcast guest? Their goals of building personal software, using web fundamentals and lowering the economic barrier of entry, could be of interest to your audience.
RedwoodSDK | The React Framework for Cloudflare
RedwoodSDK is a React Framework for Cloudflare. It begins as a Vite plugin that unlocks SSR, React Server Components, Server Functions, and realtime features. Its standards-based router, with support...
rwsdk.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I wonder what caused the 40F spike for one hour in the dataset driving the Windows Weather for one hour at 8pm! #windows #weather #chicago
May 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Excited by the "Secret Squirrel" hints from @psbhq.bsky.social today, about a possible small US tour. Hope they can stop by a major city beside a large lake, but appreciate these tours are no small undertaking (and probably more recently, less attractive than ever)
April 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Another track added to this amazing and generous endeavor. A perfect example of what makes the open web a great platform. #openweb #web #musicforprogramming #developers
Music For Programming
Episode 74: Compiled by NCW
musicforprogramming.net/seventyfour

It's the longest episode so far at 3 hours 20 minutes 🏆
#stare #concentrate #furrow #zones #b10011010b10001100b1010000 🧠
April 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Ian Clark
Booting up…
January 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Yay! 2025 will be at least a bit good, as Answer Me This returns for at least a short season - answermethispodcast.com/2025/01/02/b... #answermethis #amt #happybirthday
BIG BIRTHDAY NEWS
Happy birthday to AMT, turning 18 years old today! Which means our baby is now an adult, and we are celebrating by…. 🎉 BRINGING THE PODCAST BACK! 🎉
answermethispodcast.com
January 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New Year, New @kleptones.bsky.social - So life is good & thank you !!!! - www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9d3... #newmusic #mashup
The Kleptones - Shirts & Gurgles (Full Album)
YouTube video by The Kleptones
www.youtube.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Reposted by Ian Clark
It may fall on closed ears, but 76 Nobel laureates have just begged the Senate to do its job and reject RFK Jr’s nomination.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... #PreventibleDisasters
Nobel laureates urge US Senate to reject Robert F Kennedy Jr’s nomination
Seventy-seven prize winners sign letter arguing Trump’s DHHS pick will put US public health ‘in jeopardy’
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2024 at 3:52 PM
Reposted by Ian Clark
In the current furore been remembering the "Good to be bad" boys Jaguar ad campaign that got banned 10 years ago for allegedly encouraging irresponsible driving. Perhaps Jaguar's woes offer the perfect encapsulation of culture war extremes in action. www.theguardian.com/media/2014/j...
Jaguar ‘villain’ ad banned for encouraging irresponsible driving
YouTube advert featured Thor star Tom Hiddleston explaining how to act like a villain and why British actors are so good at it. By Mark Sweney
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Reposted by Ian Clark
🚀 Good morning, everyone. I made a game called Mundango, it's about noticing the small things in life.

mundango.daverupert.com
Mundango
A game about enjoying the small things in life.
mundango.daverupert.com
October 28, 2024 at 12:46 PM
@scott.hanselman.com Guest suggestion: I think your podcast listeners would enjoy hearing @maggieappleton.com talk about home cooked software, local-first software, barefoot developers, ai etc. - maggieappleton.com/home-cooked-... #podcast #homecooked #localfirst
Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers
The emerging golden age of home-cooked software, barefoot developers, and why the local-first community should help build it
maggieappleton.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Why do certain #tech things fail while others succeed? Three candidates

solidproject.org - TBL's project to decentralize and secure personal data. #solidproject
web.dev/explore/prog... - Progressive Web Apps #pwa.
blockprotocol.org - A standard for open data components

Thoughts / Others?
Home - Solid
solidproject.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Straight to DVD - "Hamsters On A Plane"?
“A Portuguese airline was forced to ground one of its passenger planes last week after discovering that 132 hamsters had escaped from cages in the cargo hold and roamed free throughout the aircraft, according to an aviation news website in the country.”
132 hamsters reportedly broke loose on a passenger plane, forcing it out of service for days
Portugal's TAP airlines reportedly had to take a plane out of service for days to scour the aircraft for hamsters that got out of their cages.
www.cbsnews.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Love this from project @ginatrapani.org. Great execution of an idea and proof that in many cases, HTML, CSS and vanilla JS is all you need. You can learn a lot here, using an old web developer trick called 'view source' #openweb #vanillajs #kiss #art
declaring my love for Jenny Holzer's Truisms with a little web thing inspired by her Guggenheim exhibit

completely handwritten, no frameworks, builds, AI, or best practices involved truisms.ginatrapani.org

Who is making the Bluesky Holzer bot??
Jenny Holzer's Truisms
Jenny Holzer's Truisms: A mini interactive tribute, sparked by Light Line.
truisms.ginatrapani.org
November 20, 2024 at 5:14 AM
The best 'feature' of @bsky.app for me so far, is the lack of a anxiety inducing and completely inaccurate 'trending' topic list. #socialmedia #mentalhealth
November 18, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Reposted by Ian Clark
My first @Sonic_Pi course introduced the basic concepts of creating sounds with code.

Course 2 will introduce the fundamentals of performance & improvisation with Live Loops.

Lean to loop code, change code whilst it's running & recover from errors live.

Coming soon.

sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com
Homepage
sonic-pi-studio.teachable.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:44 PM