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@PIEBALDconsult said in This is so cool (absolute time sink!): What genre? generally, prog metal. I just entered in an artist I like and picked samples nearby...very intuitive and accurate.

A blast from the past @Nagy-Vilmos how are you ? and @OriginalGriff

@dandy72 My man is well armed, so that could end poorly. Then again, we have 3 cats, so hearing strange noises at night doesn't really phase us. Now I'm curious what the cats would do to it.

@honey-the-codewitch said in Another mention of programming as fun (from Clean Code, 2nd ed): In my experience if you do what you love for work, work can take the joy out of it, in some cases to the point where it ruins the enjoyment altogether. I think vacations are important, for that, among other reasons. It's hard to disagree with that, based on my own story. Sure, it was fun at first, but there was a period of time where I would spend every waking moment working on code - my employer's, from 9 to 5, then as soon as 5pm rang, I switched to my personal project(s) until bedtime, and entire weekends were dedicated to them also. That was unsustainable and I should have realized that. I burned out. These days it's extremely rare I spend any time at all coding for myself, unless I have something very small and specific. But I keep coming up with new ideas, write them down, and as far as I'm concerned, this is what's going to occupy my time when I retire. Because I still do love to code. But I can no longer code for work + code in my spare time.

@CharHen Nope. That doesn't do the same thing. That creates a copy of the data. You may as well use ToList<>()

Roll my own, don't like EF or any of the others

I do stuff like that all the time Paul - getting old was good fun being old isn't so much

Complaining about everything is easy.

@Mike-Hankey said in VS2026: Anybody else trying it? Yep. Stable as ... It doesn't feel like insider builds like in the past.

Still better than anything I could devise. What I was thinking of for a low-quality attempt is F*ck, the police never arrive on time (8). Maybe good enough for a Saturday though.

I took a programming course in BASIC as a senior in highschool. I really enjoyed it and discovered I was pretty good at it (at least compared to most of my fellow students). My class instructor said a 4 year degree was the best path to make it my career (this was in 1975). Best advice I ever followed. 4 years later I was a FORTRAN and Assembler programmer for UNIVAC, moved to C and then C++ on UNIX workstations and ended in C++ and C# on Windows PCs when I retired in 2017. Fun times indeed.

@FreedMalloc We can wait - go for it!

I'd prefer it to look like this, no one will notice. :-) [image: ba2b7ff0-a060-4b1d-b5b2-7e3b4588e450.png]

Check out the Gartner Hype Cycle. Probably fits.

@realJSOP said in I'm officially "old": I can fart in public If you still trust your farts, you are young.

I found a BOGO for tin foil hats. I am all set.

Is it WSO ?

Nice to see you here again.

OK this link seems to work as desired https://forum.codeproject.com/category/106/the-lounge need to test before posting novice questions