Software Developer
April 2024
Summary of changes for April 2024
- I continued work on the modernization of a student loan application for a Canadian provincial government. The project is a .NET Blazor server application, so I've been continuing my journey in building UI in C#. I'm feeling a lot more productive in this tech stack this month.
- For some technical reasons I had to buy a Windows laptop for my contract this month. I purchased a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 11. I have feelings about it. I prefer linux / unix environments. And I have loved my 2021 M1 Macbook Air, as it's lightweight, performant, and I can code on battery for ~15 hours. On this Intel Windows machine, I am finding
4-62-4 hours is about what it can handle. Which is awful. Overall I'm happy with the development experience in Visual Studio for .NET, which I can only get on Windows, so that's been one benefit. But I can't believe how behind Intel is compared to Apple on processors. And what I really wanted was a linux-based System76 Lemur Pro . So, yeah, feelings of disappointment all round on this one I guess. - I turned 40. That fact plus my new Windows laptop has me feeling a bit like Richie from The Bear post-forks episode.
