So I built a fast and native tool for myself and published it if you want to try it too.

Any feedback would be nice, I really want it to be The obvious native Windows home for .http files

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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?

To fix it for myself I decided that I needed a quick peek at current stats - something that’s always one gesture away and extremely easy so I could do this without any friction.

Unfortunately I use Windows, and Windows has this thing called Widgets. Apparently, that’s exactly the surface I needed. Their docs are terrible and 100% of existing widgets are useless, but the panel is fast enough for my task.

So I crafted Wizible - a Windows 11 widget for Plausible Analytics.

It’s intentionally super simple: open widgets → glance at stats → if something changes, then I open the full dashboard.

It's free, use like 20MB of RAM, and should be relatively secure and pretty fast because I put some real software engineer work there and not vibe-code slop.

It's available in Microsoft Store, I'm also might open-source it if people are interested.

Curious: what’s the ONE metric you’d want on the widget by default? (active visitors / top pages / referrers / conversions?) I choose metrics based on my understanding, but maybe my understanding is wrong.

And: would you prefer "real-time only" or "today vs yesterday" trend at a glance? Thinking how a currently missing "small size" might look.

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At some point I switched to full grug-dev mode and cut everything that wasn’t essential. No agents, no setup, no monitoring, no accounts. One request in, parallel checks from multiple places, raw results back. The goal is that you can curl it during an incident and immediately answer "is this broken everywhere, or just from here?"

There's also an OSS sidecar for people who want to self-host monitoring, but it still needs some tuning.

I'm not fully sure about the next step yet, probably a small paid tier to cover server costs and buy a coffee, but for now the public API has fairly generous limits even without an API key if you want to play with it

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You basically could write whatever you need (like I did with image resizer), add it to .mcp.json and run it locally, no Docker containers or npm dependencies or anything else required. Each server is completely self-contained: everything from the MCP protocol implementation to the actual tools in one .cs file

So over the weekend I created open-source catalogue to collect cool and useful one-file MCPs and I welcome you to try to create some MCPs for your work and maybe share them with the world

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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

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Built this for myself to replace dart-sass for on-fly compilation. On 98KB CSS it reduced compile time from 900ms to 100ms.

All kudos to Grass rust library developer @connorskees Many kudos to NAPI-RS developers

I wrapped it for daily use in Visual Studio to compile SASS in my htmx+dotnet projects

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Hope it would be usefull to you

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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

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