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Project Update, maintenance and other things
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In this stream, Frank returns after a travel break and a case of the “FM voice” (thanks to a head cold) to catch up on his recent projects. After a quick update on the now-archived official Azure URL Shortener, he dives into a companion app for the 2D6 Dungeon board game, demonstrating its integration with .NET Aspire and MySQL. The session wraps up with some live gameplay, a victory against a Slimy Gorgger, and a plan to fix a few inventory and HP bugs in the next stream.
📺 - Twitch archive - stream no. 445
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Another milestone for AzUrlShortener
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It was a bittersweet but exciting milestone as Frank officially took back ownership of the Azure Easy URL Shortener after Microsoft archived the original repository. The stream was spent syncing the project, updating documentation to reflect its new home, and coordinating the first independent release (v4.1.2) in quite a while. Between project updates, Frank also spent time wrestling with some OS configuration tweaks following an upgrade to Omari Quattro 4, all while chatting about community contributions and future authentication plans for the budget-friendly tool.
📺 - Twitch archive - stream no. 444
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Fixing all build warning before the PR AzUrlShortener
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After a relaxing two-week vacation in Italy, Frank is back and diving straight into maintenance mode for the AzUrlShortener project. In this stream, we focused on “decluttering” the codebase by clearing out 87 build warnings, updating documentation, and merging a community contribution to polish the footer. To wrap things up, we packaged these updates into a fresh pull request for the official Microsoft repository, all while navigating a few post-OS-upgrade configuration hiccups and discussing the potential of switching to Claude for future AI assistance.
📺 - Twitch archive - stream no. 443
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Learning sidecar with Azure App Service
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Frank tackled a “budget-friendly” refactor of his URL shortener, successfully deploying a new architecture using Azure App Service sidecars to keep the API private and reduce costs. Between battling Copilot and managing a chaotic “digital friend takeover” in the chat, he managed to clean up the solution and update to the latest packages. It was a productive, high-energy session filled with bike-packing talk before Frank heads off for a two-week vacation in Italy.
📺 - Twitch archive - stream no. 442
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Deploying this new IaC template to see if it works
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In this stream, Frank successfully deployed a new budget-friendly Azure infrastructure for his open-source URL shortener using Bicep and Azure Table Storage. He also experimented with GitHub Copilot’s new desktop app to refactor the project into a sidecar container architecture to improve security and lower costs. The session had a great community vibe, filled with casual tech chats about solar eclipses, bread making, and the latest developer tools.
📺 - Twitch archive - stream no. 441
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