It depends on your definition of contribute. You aren't entitled to have your PR merged to the main project, but you are entitled to fork the project and make your changes over there. The first is contributing directly to the project, while the second is contributing to open source at large. I believe the author was referring to project specific contributions.

I'd be interested to learn a bit about how that works for you, what part of the wlrld you do it in, and what you spend roughly on it per year.

I've done Europe and LATAM. Currently in Ecuador spending $2,000/mo. But I have spent significantly less. Nicer places and amenities make it feel like real life and not just something you're doing for a few months. It's better for mood.

I have spent a lot less on Airbnb's in the past. If I like the place enough then I pay directly with a wire transfer and go month to month. And I attempt to negotiate.

For reference that is about 3 or 4 times the average rent for an furnished studio apartment in an expensive area according to https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/country/ecuador

Probably the JIT, I expect this will improve with ahead of time compiling in the newer dotnet sdks.

FWIW, whenever I've profiled startup of .NET apps the JIT is pretty fast to start up.

The only times I've noticed slow startup on recent .NET versions is with WPF apps, and that seems to be mostly because WPF does so much work on startup.

If I'm not mistaken, use of reflection on startup is a major contributor to slow startup. NativeAOT is both JIT free and reflection free.

NativeAOT has multiple reflection compatibility modes because most code bases rely on it one way or another. Reflection-free mode works in a limited set of scenarios but greatly reduces the binary size since the compiler and linker can reason much better about which parts of the code they can trim away during compilation.

I didn't know about reflection compatibility modes. Thanks!

I hope source generators will eventually replace reflection from most libraries, so that reflection-free mode can become more mainstream.

Microsoft has a family plan, it's 99/year, includes five or six accounts and a few TB of onedrive storage along with a vanity domain.

The vanity domain must be registered with GoDaddy, and doesn't provide attachment screening nor email encryption.

So... It's artificially gimped for no real reason.

It's not supported but apparently it's possible to use a personal domain for Microsoft email without using GoDaddy as your registrar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/ft15pk/use_perso...

That's a great idea. I'm sad it hasn't gained much traction yet.

I have a personal blog at https://www.brosstribe.com where I blog about stuff I've done, so I can find it later and remember it.

I also run a little BBQ cheet sheet app, at https://www.time2temp.com where I welcome pull requests for more times and Temps for BBQ.

Doesn't this also mean you have to actually have a back end for your site? Can't just host an spa on static web hosting on a cdn.

How does that token exchange work? does the user need to have a previously linked account?

The Microsoft-side app owner provides a trust description of the incoming token based on issuer, subject, and audience - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/deve...