It's an official product. Windows on ARM documentation | Microsoft Docs[^]. Good luck!

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

While Raspberry Pi Imager doesn't support a Windows install, there is now GitHub - Botspot/wor-flasher: Legal utility that runs on RPiOS to flash another SD card with Windows 10/11[^] . Check this video: Finally Install Windows 11 On The Raspberry Pi 4 NO PC REQUIRED! - YouTube[^]. Works great!

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

Much easier now using WoR-Flasher. See here: Finally Install Windows 11 On The Raspberry Pi 4 NO PC REQUIRED! - YouTube[^] It will install either Windows 10 or 11, without needing a separate computer.

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

I use to be with godaddy and bailed 10 years ago. I host at Hostgator.com, which uses launchpad.com as registrar. I have been able to reach a human anytime I tried. I think my longest wait was 20 minutes, usually less than 10. Their chat system also works extremely well, typically shorter wait. Auto-renew and email notices when coming due.

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

In 47 years, interviewing thousands, hiring many hundreds, managing large and small projects and teams, I never considered certs in the process. Never. Not once. I have gotten certs, and I have paid teams to get certified in something specific (like Windows NT, when it was new; Java, when it was new; AWS, when it was new). But, I never told HR, and I never looked at resumes, to see if someone had a particular cert. The work they did, their experience, told me they were "certified".

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

Singular vs Plural is todays Tabs vs Spaces war. Both are correct for different reasons. I (we) tend to stay with singular unless there is a compelling reason to go plural. Primarily due to how some words pluralize (Person vs People). This was an extremely lightweight article. The problem set is broader. Like, you have /populace endpoint. Do you return 300 million results or paginate the results? You need to incorporate security aspects. Do you have access to ALL the /populace (as a federal agency), or only some (as a state/province agency)? Even then, do you have access to all the data within a populace resource or only a limited set? The problem I often see is thinking of the REST API like a programming API. It is not. If you go that way, you are building a RPC, and will have scaling issues at some point. You have to step back and really think resource. getServiceFee is communicative, but so is GET /serviceFee. But /serviceFee is not a "resource". It is part of a larger resource. Depending on access rights, it might be one of only a few elements available in the returned resource. A better, simplified article is https://dzone.com/articles/5-basic-rest-api-design-guidelines[^]. It covers some of these points. A better collection of articles is https://dzone.com/articles/rest-api-best-practices-with-design-examples-from[^]. Sticking to these best practices helps open up some other frameworks to assist in building and documenting your API. Bottom line, good REST is not simple or easy. It takes a lot of up front effort and then discipline to implement well. Even with that said, I (we) still got it wrong multiple times. Just less disasterously. :)

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

I really like this idea of taker-aparter. As a kid in the early 60's, we would rummage neighbors trash cans for stuff to disassemble and "rebuild" into some other useless thing, until activated with imagination. I always wanted to know how something worked. So, I fell in with the wrong crowd in high school (1968) - the science and math department. They had a ASR-33 teletype connected to a timeshare system and had no idea what to do with it. I got some info on Dartmouth Basic, and was writing simple things in a week. By my senior year, I assisted in teaching a class on programming and had created a library of various apps for the department. I went to college to get a degree in Electical Engineering so I could design computers. Well, that never happened, never finished my degree, but just retired from programming/manager/architect after 45+ years. Seen it all, done it all. Had a great time. Still coding for fun. Might look to do some pro bono work for a local cause/charity.

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -- Dorothy Parker

Anyone remember/have the Digi-Comp 1? The "First real digital computer in plastic"? 1963. I was 7. That counts. It needed programming. I got my first paying job in 1968 (12) in high school, programming something called the Wang calculator for the physics teachers. Been at it ever since. Now building eCommerce systems handling $9 billion USD annually. What a fun industry we chose!

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -– Dorothy Parker

Well, at 53, I may not be "old" by your standard for this question, but I certainly have opinions. I've been programming for 37 years. During that time I have been "Just Another Programmer", a consultant, a technical manager, a partner in a 100+ person consulting firm, a co-founder of a software/hardware dev firm, a VP of engineering in another 100+ person company. I keep coming back to programming. My wife doesn't quite get that I have no interest in becoming a manager at my current company. "Wouldn't you make more money?" Sure, and I could make more money as a CPA, or a surgeon, but I wouldn't have the same challenge that comes from finding an elusive multi-threading race condition that causes a weirded out system crash once every 3-5 weeks. I see myself as a programmer until retirement. My ambition will continue to drive me to greater degrees of technical depth and breadth, but it will never let me stray too far from the programming challenges that still float my boat. Later... Tim

-------------------------------------------------- Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. -- George Carlin