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Shayne Boyer

Personal blog · tattoocoder.com · on HN as spboyerprogrammingweb

Shayne Boyer writes TattooCoder, a personal blog at tattoocoder.com about programming and web. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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7mentions?
6HN people?
2016–2018first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2017

Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link Shayne Boyer's blog for .NET help, such as setting up VS Code's C# extension for .NET Core with debugging, and for an ASP.NET Slack community invite.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Shayne Boyer’s developer field notes, stories, and lessons from building software.

The author on HN?

spboyer · 23 karma · member since 2012

@spboyer on Twitter http://tattoocoder.com

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What Hacker News says?

  1. If you're working on something that needs to target the full framework, then yes, Mono is the way to go. Otherwise if you're targeting the new .NET Core, then you can do without Mono with the latest pre-release versions of the VS Code C# extension (which includes debugging support). Here's a blog post with bit more info on setting up VS Code with the pre-release version of the C# extension (and debugging support): h…

    Comment linking /setting-up-asp-net-core-debugging-in-vs-code/

    on “Visual Studio Code 1.0”
  2. Submitted Using Just CLI for .NET Core, Azure and Docker as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  3. http://tattoocoder.com/aspnet-slack-sign-up/ is one Slack which has been suggested to me which is frequented by the ".NET crew". Booyah.

    Comment linking /aspnet-slack-sign-up/

    on “Not your grandad’s .NET: Pipes, Part 1”
  4. Submitted Open Source Tools for SQL Server on Linux as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. I greatly prefer using docker for reasons like this. Otherwise, I'm not sure what's going on. I just ran through those instructions on my Mac. After installing that package and starting a new shell, `dotnet` was working. There's a slack room which might be able to provider further support: http://tattoocoder.com/aspnet-slack-sign-up

    Comment linking /aspnet-slack-sign-up

    on “NET Core and ASP.NET Core RC2 Released”
  6. Submitted Learning DevOps, building the ASP.NET Core Workshop, and keeping it up to date as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Deploy Azure functions using templates with CLI commands as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion

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