Mike Goatly
@goatly.net
Professional software developer. Guitarist and pretend musician. You can expect me to post about Visual Studio, VSCode, C#, .NET, TypeScript, React, Avalonia, Raspberry PI, Azure, Kubernetes and more.
Well this isn't bad for a vibe coded weekend project. Taking audio samples, processing them and transforming them into music notation, midi or ABC notation.
It's a long way from perfect, but it's been a lot of fun and I've learned loads.
It's a long way from perfect, but it's been a lot of fun and I've learned loads.
December 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Well this isn't bad for a vibe coded weekend project. Taking audio samples, processing them and transforming them into music notation, midi or ABC notation.
It's a long way from perfect, but it's been a lot of fun and I've learned loads.
It's a long way from perfect, but it's been a lot of fun and I've learned loads.
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🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
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*or throw out code review for something else. Like prod observaility, automated testing etc.
Standout engineers still write concise code with AI assistance as well… but it’s just so tempting to let it rip and push “sloppy code” that solves stuff but is verbose + less maintainable?
Standout engineers still write concise code with AI assistance as well… but it’s just so tempting to let it rip and push “sloppy code” that solves stuff but is verbose + less maintainable?
December 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
*or throw out code review for something else. Like prod observaility, automated testing etc.
Standout engineers still write concise code with AI assistance as well… but it’s just so tempting to let it rip and push “sloppy code” that solves stuff but is verbose + less maintainable?
Standout engineers still write concise code with AI assistance as well… but it’s just so tempting to let it rip and push “sloppy code” that solves stuff but is verbose + less maintainable?
So if Notepad is the new Wordpad, when are we getting Notepad back again?
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
So if Notepad is the new Wordpad, when are we getting Notepad back again?
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Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI"
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Currently playing @aftermath.site's "Uh Oh, You Have Billions Invested In Generative AI"
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
woe-industries.itch.io/you-have-bil...
Blogged: A fun optimisation in LIFTI v7 www.goatly.net/post/2025/11...
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Blogged: A fun optimisation in LIFTI v7 www.goatly.net/post/2025/11...
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LIFTI v7 has just dropped! github.com/mikegoatly/l...
There's new query syntax:
&! ("And Not") for excluding search results matching test
<< and >> for anchoring search terms to the start and end of text
#dotnet #opensource
There's new query syntax:
&! ("And Not") for excluding search results matching test
<< and >> for anchoring search terms to the start and end of text
#dotnet #opensource
Release v7.0.0 · mikegoatly/lifti
LIFTI v7.0.0 Release Notes
🤏 TL;DR
LIFTI v7 changes support for the library to .NET 8/9/10, dropping .NET 6 and .NET Standard support. Key improvements:
New query operators: &! (And Not), << (star...
github.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
LIFTI v7 has just dropped! github.com/mikegoatly/l...
There's new query syntax:
&! ("And Not") for excluding search results matching test
<< and >> for anchoring search terms to the start and end of text
#dotnet #opensource
There's new query syntax:
&! ("And Not") for excluding search results matching test
<< and >> for anchoring search terms to the start and end of text
#dotnet #opensource
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A update:
Per her last update on GFM, Rebecca's doctors have determined no further treatments are possible, and they will be ceasing life support later tonight.
Please make time tonight, to tell her thank you, and that she is loved. It doesn't have to be much.
Per her last update on GFM, Rebecca's doctors have determined no further treatments are possible, and they will be ceasing life support later tonight.
Please make time tonight, to tell her thank you, and that she is loved. It doesn't have to be much.
The Bard's Tale III. Wasteland. Wolfenstein 3D. Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Out Of This World. Baldur's Gate II. Neuromancer. Battle Chess. Rock & Roll Racing. And, let us not forget: Super Noah's Ark 3D!
Rebecca's work is everywhere in this industry, and she deserves our support and our love.
Rebecca's work is everywhere in this industry, and she deserves our support and our love.
I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
A update:
Per her last update on GFM, Rebecca's doctors have determined no further treatments are possible, and they will be ceasing life support later tonight.
Please make time tonight, to tell her thank you, and that she is loved. It doesn't have to be much.
Per her last update on GFM, Rebecca's doctors have determined no further treatments are possible, and they will be ceasing life support later tonight.
Please make time tonight, to tell her thank you, and that she is loved. It doesn't have to be much.
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Thought this was quite lovely.
Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now.
youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...
Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now.
youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...
What happens when you set a river free? | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
youtu.be
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Thought this was quite lovely.
Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now.
youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...
Always good to remind yourself that not everything is awful right now.
youtu.be/Qp7K6pEWEuk?...
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I can't cite the source, this was like 30 years ago. But I recall an artificial intelligence researcher coming up with "the cuckoo problem". The real danger to humanity wouldn't be a genuinely self aware machine mind that could be our equal or better. It would be a non-sentient cuckoo contraption. 🧵
October 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I can't cite the source, this was like 30 years ago. But I recall an artificial intelligence researcher coming up with "the cuckoo problem". The real danger to humanity wouldn't be a genuinely self aware machine mind that could be our equal or better. It would be a non-sentient cuckoo contraption. 🧵
Exciting news from the Avalonia team - I hope to be kicking the tyres of this in v12...
We're experimenting with additional rendering backends for Avalonia.
SkiaSharp remains the default (and will for years), but we're exploring what GPU-first rendering could bring to the platform.
Read about our early experiments: avaloniaui.net/blog/the-fu...
SkiaSharp remains the default (and will for years), but we're exploring what GPU-first rendering could bring to the platform.
Read about our early experiments: avaloniaui.net/blog/the-fu...
The Future of Avalonia's Rendering - Avalonia UI
Our exploration into rendering options other than SkiaSharp
avaloniaui.net
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Exciting news from the Avalonia team - I hope to be kicking the tyres of this in v12...
TIL: There's an orc emojii! 🧌🧌🧌
August 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
TIL: There's an orc emojii! 🧌🧌🧌
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OpenAI is being sued by the family of a teen who died by suicide after months of confiding in ChatGPT. The suit claims GPT-4o “validated his most harmful thoughts” and lacked safeguards.
I found this screenshot of one of their chats most upsetting as a parent of a teen.
I found this screenshot of one of their chats most upsetting as a parent of a teen.
August 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
OpenAI is being sued by the family of a teen who died by suicide after months of confiding in ChatGPT. The suit claims GPT-4o “validated his most harmful thoughts” and lacked safeguards.
I found this screenshot of one of their chats most upsetting as a parent of a teen.
I found this screenshot of one of their chats most upsetting as a parent of a teen.
This reminds me of the "torturing furbies" phenomenon. Some people have a bias to cruelty and this is another way to spot it.
apropos of nothing: I don't think current AIs are owed any more deference or compassion than a doll. However, you would be suspicious of someone that seemed to revel in being verbally or physically abusive to a doll
August 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This reminds me of the "torturing furbies" phenomenon. Some people have a bias to cruelty and this is another way to spot it.
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apropos of nothing: I don't think current AIs are owed any more deference or compassion than a doll. However, you would be suspicious of someone that seemed to revel in being verbally or physically abusive to a doll
August 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
apropos of nothing: I don't think current AIs are owed any more deference or compassion than a doll. However, you would be suspicious of someone that seemed to revel in being verbally or physically abusive to a doll
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Local CEO caught CHEATING at Phillies game?!
July 19, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Local CEO caught CHEATING at Phillies game?!
Epic talk by Scott - it touches on a number of the ways that tech is breaking the promise that it would improve lives, instead monetising and dehumanising us, not least in the shift to shoving "AI" into everything
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done.
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
youtu.be
July 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Epic talk by Scott - it touches on a number of the ways that tech is breaking the promise that it would improve lives, instead monetising and dehumanising us, not least in the shift to shoving "AI" into everything
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I am ready to help, I was born to do this job.
July 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I am ready to help, I was born to do this job.
Peak AI
June 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Peak AI
My feelings about #28yearslater can be summed up with this year's UK's Eurovision entry
Video: https://toot.community/@mikegoatly/114745864045638066
Video: https://toot.community/@mikegoatly/114745864045638066
June 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
My feelings about #28yearslater can be summed up with this year's UK's Eurovision entry
Video: https://toot.community/@mikegoatly/114745864045638066
Video: https://toot.community/@mikegoatly/114745864045638066
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I told you we’d be back
June 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I told you we’d be back
Trying to show the kids that real life can be more fun than #minecraft !
May 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Trying to show the kids that real life can be more fun than #minecraft !
Thanks to the archive site https://arcarc.nl/ I found a public domain game called Arion that I wrote back in 1994 on the Acorn RISC PC! Having played it now, I'm impressed with the level of detail I put into it, but it's very hard - so hard that when you die, there's a random chance that a passing
May 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Thanks to the archive site https://arcarc.nl/ I found a public domain game called Arion that I wrote back in 1994 on the Acorn RISC PC! Having played it now, I'm impressed with the level of detail I put into it, but it's very hard - so hard that when you die, there's a random chance that a passing
TIL that #LitRPG is a genre, and the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is a very funny, easy to read series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56791389-dungeon-crawler-carl
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B08BKGYQXW The apocal…
www.goodreads.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:16 AM
TIL that #LitRPG is a genre, and the Dungeon Crawler Carl series is a very funny, easy to read series https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56791389-dungeon-crawler-carl