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Same here… tenner a month!

I had a dram in my advent calendar… I wasn’t impressed really; it was very smokey and that’s not the kind of Scotch I enjoy.

Finally got the Bond Aston Martin DB5 finished yesterday. I have to say that I was more impressed by it than I was expecting to be!

Isn’t there a fairly sizeable US / European joint exercise going on at the moment?

Yes, I do like the Speed Champions sets. I’ve got quite a few of them and I really like how they manage to get the spirit of the cars into the little models.

I agree. I definitely have a taste for sherry cask finished single malts and also really do not like the heavily plated malts. :D

Yeah, I use Classic, as I’ve no desire at all to waste the pitiful upstream bandwidth we get here on uploading photos to Adobe.

i7 (though my home machine is only an i5 and that’s fine, despite me cheaping out with it :D ) 32GB RAM 1TB SSD. / NVMe (home machine has some additional spinning rust storage too, but keep code stuff on the NVMe) 2x 4K monitors (laptop screen and additional screen for work laptop / 2 monitors...

I agree with a lot of neur0maniak’s comments above. (Though not about PHP :D .Net all the way here!) To go further with the app comment, you can even create a minimum app that is basically a wrapper around a website. In terms of security, yes it is down to you, and I’d suggest that a website...

C# follows quite readily from C++. You can even use C# for front end dev these days, with Microsoft’s Blazor. As above though, depending just how complicated you need to make things, just using MVC (or Razor Pages) might give you a solution without getting over involved in front end tech.

Both... It’s sometimes dictated by the system you’re integrating with. Personally, I’d just choose JSON, but it’s not always something you get to choose.

What are the NAS drives of choice at the moment? I’ve built a new homelab server and one of its functions is going to be to be a NAS, probably with 5 or 6 drives, running RAID Z2 (aware RAID isn’t a backup, this is just part of my overall backup solution...). Do I “need” NAS drives, or will...

C# and .Net Core usually. SQL Server mostly for data storage, though have occasionally used other kinds of storage. REST or SOAP services for the integrations. JSON or XML for the data feeds.

Personally, I’d always reinstall after putting in a new motherboard.

Systems integration mostly... APIs, website to/from ERP, middleware, data feeds, etc.

As above... Macrium Reflect. I did just what you are looking to do a few months ago with it and it could hardly have been more straightforward.

I do way more backend work than front end, but Bootstrap is my go to option if I do need to stick a quick UI on something.

Very nice! Kyrö were exhibiting at the Berlin Craft Spirits Festival last March (back in the dim and distant days when you could travel...). They do some very good stuff. The sample of their Rye Whiskey was excellent, as is their Dark Gin (have a bottle of that here that we brought home with us).

I walk to work... about 15 minutes each way

Very tempted to give Starlink a go. We get about 14 Mbits/s down / 1 Mbit/s up ADSL2 that’s extremely flaky at the best of times here and I can’t see that improving much anytime soon.