Author: jcianci12
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Why Facebook Marketplace Is Built for Facebook — Not for Buyers and Sellers
I originally built localparts because something about Facebook Marketplace always felt… off. It works.It’s huge.It’s everywhere. But it isn’t built for buyers.And it isn’t built for sellers. It’s…
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Telerik & Kendo UI Price Increase (April 2026) – What Developers Should Know
If you’re using Telerik or Kendo UI in your projects, you may have recently received an email about upcoming pricing changes. Starting April 1, 2026, Progress is updating…
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🏡 How to Get a Truly Realistic Picture of Your Mortgage Repayments (and Why Most Calculators Get It Wrong)
When you’re planning a home loan — whether it’s your first property, a refinance, or an investment — one of the first things you’re likely to do is…
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Is Pure, Unfiltered Horse Manure
There. It’s out Star Trek: Strange New Worlds isn’t just disappointing. It’s the most beautifully lit, meticulously costumed, aggressively marketed pile of horse manure ever beamed into orbit.…
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Why ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT vs DOTNET_ENVIRONMENT Causes So Much Frustration (And How To Fix It)
If you’ve ever set: ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production …only to find your app still thinks it’s running in Development — welcome to the club. This has caused years of confusion in…
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Free Windows Location Services Toggle Tool (GUI) | One-Click Fix for Greyed-Out Location Settings
If Windows Location Services is greyed out, disabled, or just not behaving properly, you usually need to dig into Group Policy or run PowerShell commands as Administrator. That…
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Build a Portable Developer Desktop with Docker (VS Code + Codex CLI + Tailscale + RDP)
Setting up a fresh development machine should not take half a day. This project gives you a portable “developer desktop in a container” with: Repo: https://github.com/jcianci12/developer-webtop-docker-vm Why this setup…
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Let’s Connect — What Are You Building?
Most of what I write here comes from real projects. Deployments that didn’t quite go to plan.Security models that needed rethinking.Automation pipelines that worked beautifully — or completely…
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Capability Contracts in Godot: The Clean Alternative to Multiple Inheritance
If you build games in Godot long enough, you hit this question: How do I make one object behave like two different roles without ugly inheritance? A classic…
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Fixing a Godot Editor Hang: health_bar_3d.tscn
How we removed a major editor slowdown caused by duplicate viewport rendering and always-on editor updates. Godot Version: 4.xArea: 3D UI / Health BarSymptoms: Editor hangs or becomes very slow when scenes/health_bar_3d.tscn is…