Hello again!

[IndianaGary]

Hi Victor, long time no see!

After a couple years of up and down health issues, I fully retired in 2023 and moved back to Indiana in 2024. I see the project is active again and hope what little I was able to do was useful.

Best Regards,
Gary Lewis

[vpapenko]

Hey, my friend! Nice to hear from you. I hope your health is better now.
I’m still working at Microsoft and still living in Serbia. I’m not sure if it is forever, but I have no plans to change anything now.
Fully retired from paid work? What about pet projects? Or did you completely stop programming?
Your contribution was great. This project needed one last push, but I never had time for it, until this new AI era 😆. I just asked copilot to finish my ideas, and it did a great job. Without it, I would never find enough time to do all this work myself.

[IndianaGary]

Hi Victor! I still do work on a few projects. I have a MAUI Pet Health app I built and am working on a Budget Manager using Excel-DNA, all in modern C#. I'm looking at discriminated unions on C# 15 now. The Result and Option classes can be built without DU but are easier with them. I use AI, but sparingly as the results are not always correct. It is getting better, though. Good to hear from you. Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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[IndianaGary]

Oh, BTW, any plans to complete the iOS and MacCatalyst code? Sent from Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>

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