Katamaritaino is up there with Clash On The Big Bridge and Flow as best songs that happened to be made for games.
The OST for the first two games, how they stick (ha!) well together, and how WLK managed to be a perfect blend of paying homage to the first game (Scorching Savanna!) _and_ being a solid improvement on it should be studied.
It's striking to me how humble Takahashi-sensei is regarding the shortcomings he perceives in the first game as well. I can see them much better dealt with in We Love Katamari, but I feel like some of them aren't that bad as a player who picks it to play every once in a while. In turn, it makes me appreciate the holistic and honest view he has for such an original game.
Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not now, at least
Technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Avalonia, Git, SQL/Oracle/SQL Server, HTML/CSS/JS, React, Docker, Github CI/CD, TypeScript, OpenAPI, Golang, Python, xUnit, Moq, MVVM, Clean Architecture, SOLID, etc.
Résumé/CV: https://portfolio.cotti.com.br/Felipe%20Cotti%20-%20Resume%20-%20EN.pdf
Portfolio : https://portfolio.cotti.com.br
Email: [email protected]
Hello! I'm Felipe, and I have 7 years of experience working on a good range of solutions, from WebAPIs to desktop applications, from libraries to background services and all sorts of odd requests. My main tool has been C#/.NET, but I'm quite alright with jumping to a new stack as needed.
I have worked on both brownfield and greenfield projects, and I'm available for backend, full stack, you name it! I enjoy being flexible if needed, and helping in bringing the best out of everyone.
So, what can you expect when interacting with me? I'd say I'm pretty easy to talk and bond with, first of all. I love learning by engaging in meaningful interactions with my peers - pair-coding, thinking together on problems, knowledge sharing.
Thank you dearly for keeping the candle of goodwill kindling.
I don't think I'll actually request (I'm not in NA so I don't know if it'd be trickier or something), but I'd take off of my chest the plight this year nonetheless if that's ok.
In today's exchange rate, I receive around net USD1200 a month, and have around USD1150 of mandatory expenses. 440 (rent) + 75 (electricity) + 250 (mother's health insurance) + 250 (my part in monthly food expenses) + 70 (therapy) + 70 (gas). I can survive, but I can't do much, and more importantly, I need nothing bad to happen, else this can snowball.
It was a rather cruel year. I spent around USD1500 over the last year on my elder dog's health issues. He had 3 surgeries, and while he survived those he ultimately deteriorated quickly over a week and passed away in early November. I still can't last a day without breaking down - he was, is, a brother to me. Part of the sum I mentioned was for his cremation service.
During the year, I also had a HDD fail in a small time window where some of the projects I had the most emotional investment in were, without backups. I had to pay another USD500 to actually recover the data. Two tires flattened out in the span of 2 weeks, another USD330.
Of course, things snowballed. Every month I need to pay one or two bills on credit to split it over the next year just so I don't get a loan. I think if I can make it to May, where I'll get around an extra salary, I can make do, but life is pretty miserable.
And I had planned to get married early next year, so that's slipping off the table too. My fiancée supports me where she can emotionally, but she's unemployed too, trying to start a doc degree in Biology next year. While I need to support my mother, who gets next to nothing as retirement, at least her family's got her back while she lives with them.
I hope everyone is, or gets to be, doing better than summarizing their year like this. It's hard to find days where I can try and study to hopefully better provide here. Be well, folks.
Has MAUI managed to actually succeed Xamarin? From what I remember from a few years ago they kind of botched the launch and it failed to even fully replace it.
Xamarin is officially in End Of Support. But Maui has definitely missed the mark. I was deep in it around net6/net7 timeframe, and net8 was supposed to be a big step forward, but they burned a lot of good will with the rollout. I saw a lot of hubris not only from the Maui side, but also from the .net ecosystem as a whole. Specifically whoever was pushing workloads. The pain points around that were huge sources of unnecessary friction, on top of the really buggy initial versions of Maui.
Location: Brazil
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Not now, at least
Technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, WPF, Avalonia, Git, SQL/Oracle/SQL Server, HTML/CSS/JS, Docker, Github CI/CD, TypeScript, OpenAPI, Golang, Python, xUnit, Moq, MVVM, Clean Architecture, SOLID, etc.
Résumé/CV: https://portfolio.cotti.com.br/Felipe%20Cotti%20-%20Resume%20-%20EN.pdf
Portfolio : https://portfolio.cotti.com.br
Email: [email protected]
Hello! I'm Felipe, and I have 7 years of experience working on a good range of solutions, from WebAPIs to desktop applications, from libraries to background services and all sorts of odd requests. My main tool has been C#/.NET, but I'm quite alright with jumping to a new stack as needed.
I have worked on both brownfield and greenfield projects, and I'm available for backend, full stack, you name it! I enjoy being flexible if needed, and helping in bringing the best out of everyone.
So, what can you expect when interacting with me? I'd say I'm pretty easy to talk and bond with, first of all. I love learning by engaging in meaningful interactions with my peers - pair-coding, thinking together on problems, knowledge sharing.
I've been looking forward for almost a decade now for Matrix (and the client ecosystem) to mature enough that it isn't so hard to get people less tech-savvy to give it a honest spin.
Here's hoping this is a milestone as good as it sounds. I'm particularly curious about the improvements in encrypted conferences, which is... A pretty darn hard to do. Even more so with Matrix's "constrains".
The OST for the first two games, how they stick (ha!) well together, and how WLK managed to be a perfect blend of paying homage to the first game (Scorching Savanna!) _and_ being a solid improvement on it should be studied.
It's striking to me how humble Takahashi-sensei is regarding the shortcomings he perceives in the first game as well. I can see them much better dealt with in We Love Katamari, but I feel like some of them aren't that bad as a player who picks it to play every once in a while. In turn, it makes me appreciate the holistic and honest view he has for such an original game.