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POP Forums XX, released
Last weekend, I released version 20 of POP Forums. I've been at it for 24 years, and I've got the version history to prove it. There are few things in my life that have been consistently there for that long. There have been a few minor contributions from others, plus the language translations, but it's otherwise been mostly me.
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Let's be real: Writing open source software is volunteering
Repost from my personal blog.
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Testing help: POP Forums integrated with OAuth identity provider
For a lot of years, consumers of my open source project, POP Forums, have asked about the best way to integrate with whatever they were working with in their environment. This usually landed them in a world of hacks involving disparate databases. Of course, there's a better way, and that's to use some kind of OAuth flow through an external identity provider. The groundwork for that has been around for a long time, in the shape of social logins. However, the idea here is that the external provider would be involved to provision accounts, eliminating any kind of signup flow.
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.NET development on Mac is real (if a little tricky)
Yesterday I mentioned how enamored I was with Apple's new (last year) generation of self-made silicon laptops, but the lingering question in my mind was, could I completely get away with not having to run Windows in a VM? So I borrowed an M1-based Mac and gave it a shot. The good news is that it's possible, though it took me about four or five hours of messing around to make it roughly equivalent to the Windows experience.