just want to share if someone wanted to explore this shit

If you think Microsoft breaking Windows is a new thing - think again

They've killed their own widget platform 6 times in 30 years. Each one died from a different spectacular failure.

But the last iteration might actually be done right

I traced full history of windows widgets from Active Channel Bar to latest Windows Board

What do you think?

Hey HN, just wanted to share the side-project I created with you.

One of my responsibilities (or rather extra-activity) is to do technical interviews. Usually, it is some mid to senior-level developer, sometimes S1-S2, for some random .NET-related position. It's a pure evaluation of the technical knowledge: C#, ASP-net, cloud, SQL - all that stuff we use daily.

I have a checklist and a set of questions that I ask again and again. Each time before an interview, I adapt the list of questions a bit to fit the job description and evaluation chart for HRs.

You could see where it's going. Because all I ask is quite average common knowledge, I thought that AI could do it better. And it does: by feeding the job description and some comments I was able to get a good list of related technical questions for the interview.

I liked the result so much, that I paused my OSS project and wrapped the idea into a tool. A simple tool that creates a tailored assessment matrix (the checklist) and a list of questions and answers. Not a SaaS, no subscriptions, no accounts. You provide a job description, click a button, and download a tailored PDF with questions to use wherever you want.

So my educated guess here is that I might be not the only one who needs this. I might be wrong, I usually am, but, well, it's there and I intend to push it forward for some time.

Distribution-wise, it's a LinkedIn product. All HR-related stuff is always LinkedIn and I have 700+ connections there which might actually be finally useful.

Or not. It all might be another flop, but that's how this thing works.

Built with htmx+dotnet btw

htmx works great with dotnet btw (wrote a series on that)

Sounds very interesting! Do you have a link by any chance?

Not OP (and late to the game), but searching his handle led me to https://xakpc.info/series/htmx-dotnet

as htmx CEO I approve this message

that's ok I gave up too (after a 6 years on my second company) I get back to a full time job I have more sleep, earn more, travel more and much more relaxed Now if I build something, I do it just for fun without any expectation Maybe in couple years I will try again, maybe not

I do agree, slack and discord become way to heavy and bloated. Forums might be the best way, but it need a new iteration or something. phpBB is way too old

this is nice.

I built a couple of side-projects and startups - all on .net.

First one was on Xamarin even before it was bought by MS - the progress from that times is amazing, the last one - built fully on Blazor.

I believe more startups should try to adopt .net stack - it's fast, fun and efficient and becomes better every day.

Congrats .net teams on launch

Maintain and support existing successful products is the laziest job ever.

I know a developer who single-handedly supporting a product - like a couple of days in a month for a full-time salary. He is paid because he is available, not because he works. He led a team that built this product, then dismissed it and supporting the product from then.

Usually, it is possible in non-tech companies, where you don't really care about the domain, just ensure that everything works fine.

Hey hackers.

Wanna show you what I built essentially from 2015 or even 2014. In that year telegram, chatbots were introduced - the same time around I build a simple XML-based chatbot hosting on a local AngelHack hackathon which I won.

The next year I expand this project even more, especially on HackJunction Helsinki hackathon in 2015 where I and my team built one of the first apparel selling chatbot for Shopify - and take first place there. At the same time, I made a chatbot platform that I never published but decided to use internally.

I made a decision to move enterprise because they were ready to pay - and for the past 5 years, my company built tons of chatbots for automating HR: employee support, adaptation, recruitment, and so on - all with the help of our own engine/platform.

But 2020 and covid shit basically destroyed my company, so I scraped most of the internal services (13 to be precise), wrap it with Azure API Management (you can check how cryptic it was [here](https://xakpc.info/connecting-azure-api-management-azure-ad-...)) and published it so anyone can save their time building bots.

Now I mostly use it for myself to support several last clients and showing it around in the hope it might be useful for someone besides me and a couple of people I know.