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  • Depends if you want a managed service or not. As stated by others, any Linux vm can do it: Aws ec2, Azure, Digital ocean, etc. Cost won’t spiral because you pay a fixed fee for the vm you choose (can be like 5 dollars a month).

    The options that can spiral if for some reason your app started being used a lot. But likely these will be pretty much free:

    A lot of cloud platforms have some sort of managed container service. Wrap your app in a docker container and pay per 10K API calls for example.

    Another option is to use a managed service that handles the runtime for you (AWS Lambda, Google cloud app engine, etc.) These options should have the option for a dotnet core runtime. They can also be really cheap if your app isn’t used much.




  • The CLI and probably other more advanced guis are going to give you the option to:

    • bisect: very useful for debugging. Like definitely check it out.
    • rebase: excellent for clean commits. I use it all the time to squash commits together
    • diff arbitrary branches and commits. Super useful for debugging.
    • cherry pick: useful to apply a commit from a different branch or remote
    • Apply: I use it to pass around patches for things for testing / debugging.

    That’s just off the top of my head and also stuff that you can learn on the job. Good to know it exists though. I still use a “gui” (fugitive for vim) for simple tasks, like staging files 🙂



  • Sounds like you want to contribute to something for the sake of contributing (hopefully that’s not true). You’re skill is worth something.

    Going to spew some jaded bs: Don’t pick a project that makes you sign some bullshit release, pick something that some rando started and released with no intention of monetizing. Volunteer to work on a passion project that you’re also passionate about. Not something that will be used by some 9-5 300k a year tech bro. That’s just my opinion though. “Open source” has been used by big companies to generate free labor (looking at you Adobe, etc).

    Off the top of my head, the SignalK project is something I’ve wanted to volunteer for. They make some software that lets marine sensors (depth sounders, Windex, speed paddles, temp sensors, etc.) Communicate in one standard format. They built a web app with node and react as a proof of concept. It could for sure be improved. It’d be neat if it caught on because vendor lock-in is huge in marine hardware / software.