cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/22672085

Earlier this year I gave this talk which is about how programmers can get the most of the Fediverse, particularly for dotnet/MAUI developers - some of the killer features which are available and how to use them. The focus of the examples are with dotnet/MAUI, but these things would undoubtedly also be available for other languages/ecosystems, I was just using dotnet/MAUI to illustrate the underlying functionality available to us here. This recording would be good for anyone who isn't familiar with these features (maybe anyone you want to convince to come here, or just if you feel you don't know everything that is available).

The first part of the recording is a different talk about MAUI, and the first link below will be where my talk starts, and then some more links for other key points, if you just want to see the parts you don't already know about.

Following these recording links will be links to resources that I talked about...

30:06 start/MAUI Lemmy community

31:31 overview of talk

33:20 what is the Fediverse?

38:15 Lemmy

42:08 Mastodon

43:40 Mastodon dotnet.social

46:33 Mastodon Local timeline

48:01 Mastodon Federated timeline

60:11 Mastodon Lists

56:28 Mastodon hashtags

56:25 Mastodon pinned posts

1:00:20 follow Twitter accounts from Mastodon

1:01:51 how to use Lemmy from Mastodon

1:07:25 Mastodon's killer feature for dev's - github bots

1:10:47 Guide to Mastodon for .NET and MAUI people

1:13:15 Pixelfed, UI comparison

1:15:41 Maho Pacheco's repo (federate static website, etc.)

1:17:52 Microsoft DevBlogs

Links to resources from this talk

Creating MAUI UI's in C#

fediverse.party

.NET MAUI @ programming.dev

.NET MAUI Mastodon bot

.NET Mastodon bot

@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social

Join dotnet.social

Join dotnet.social and auto-follow @SmartmanApps@dotnet.social

How to follow multiple hashtags in a column

@Microsoft@bird.makeup

Github bots by Carlos Sanchez of Microsoft...

Dotnet github bot

MAUI github bot

MastodonGitHubBot repo

Guide to Mastodon for dotNetMAUI and dotNet peeps

Github repo of Maho Paheco of Microsoft

Maho's guide to implement ActivityPub in a static site (or any website)

Follow Maho's blog from Mastodon (or almost any Fediverse service!)

Follow Microsoft DevBlogs (federated thanks to Maho)

a new NuGet dependency graph resolver built to dramatically improve performance

The new algorithm they developed uses a more streamlined approach, representing the graph as a flattened set where each node is created only once. This makes the in-memory dependency graph much smaller and easier to work with. Conflicts are resolved as the graph is being built, which avoids the need for the repetitive passes that the old dependency graph resolution algorithm required.

This new approach had dramatic results. The original dependency graph, which in our testing would create 1.6 million nodes for a complex project, was reduced to just 1,200 nodes. With fewer nodes to process, restore times dropped significantly; from 16 minutes down to just 2 minutes.

An interactive dotnet tool dotnet scaffold has been released in preview.

dotnet tool install --global Microsoft.dotnet-scaffold

• GitHub Repository (shared)
  • Scaffolding README.md
• Package on NuGet.org

dotnet scaffold has support for the following ASP.NET Core project types:

• Web app
• Web API
• .NET Aspire
• Blazor

From the README:

For more information on ASP.NET scaffolding, see the following tutorials:

• Add a model to an ASP.NET Core MVC app
• Add a model to a Razor Pages app
• Tutorial: Create a web API with ASP.NET Core
• Scaffold Identity

For context: Entity Framework has Reverse Engineering with the dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold command/tool.