Hi all! I've finally published my first open source project!

I give to you, The Web Toolbox! https://thewebtoolbox.cc/

A few years ago I used to make heavy use of thetoolbox.cc, but unfortunately it went offline. I thought I'd revive the project and improve upon the previous version.

I'm going to be adding new tools soon, and I'm really looking forward to any suggestions from the community.

Hope you all find it useful :)

Okay, I hope a few people can help me with this; what are the benefits/reasons to use MS technologies? I'm talking about .NET, ASP, Windows Server, Powershell...

I've never understood it. I love Nodejs because you don't have any packages unless you ask for them. Alpine Linux is amazing! It runs on 8MB of RAM from fresh and doesn't need much more space to install.

You want .NET core? 140MB download. You're configuring database connection strings? Feel free to type in whatever you like, it'll parse and replace with some magic variables that have come from some other random file.

I was using Powershell recently, needed to set an env variable. Bash is happy with "export name=value". You want to do that in Powershell? I just googled it and found an entire 40-minute read discussing how to set env vars. Why?! It should be one command, and I don't know who thought that "Get-ChildItem" was _obviously_ referring to env variables.

It seems to me that everywhere MS has got their hands on development-wise, it inherits the typical sales bullshit. No no, you can't call them "websockets", they have to be branded "SignalR" and add tons of overhead. You can't say "disable notifications" it has to be "focus assist". I'm really surprised something as simple as a keyboard hasn't become a "varied user input device" or something of the like.

Am I alone in thinking this?

Please tell me I'm missing something, but I can't find any news/changelog about this avatar feature. I hadn't checked devRant for a while and saw it pop up, but now I'm struggling to find any info...

Finding it difficult to work out whether I should take the plunge and try to make the idea I have.... must overcome confidence first...

We'll finally know when non-devs have found out about devRant when we start getting rants such as "Why can't devs understand that I don't know what a browser is? It's not my fault..." etc etc...

I'm starting to feel that the SO bunch are moving here - a few comments I've posted recently (and I don't usually like to post) have been shot down purely because they contain my opinion. I really hope it's just bad luck on my part 🙁

No idea if anyone has mentioned this yet, but I feel it would be really cool if @dfox could public some kind of stats for devRant (anonymous, but on things like post count per day, topics etc...)

It makes me feel good to hear of all the mistakes people make - reminds me that if I make a mistake its actually not as bad as I think 😃

Seems to be taking ages to +1 things - sometimes it doesn't even work 😞

The feeling when you've been working on a project for eight months on your own, learnt a new way to do something but now the project is too big to fix... 😞

My setup - keeping it simple! 😃