brsiegel

JavaPackager as you're already using should work, you would just need to build the Mac packages on a Mac build agent. For something more future-proof and performant, GraalVM native images (https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image...) seem to be the future of native packaging for JVM applications.

I have an auto-updated tap for the ffmpeg binaries from https://www.osxexperts.net, feel free to

  brew tap bsiegel/tap

I got frustrated having to install all of the runtime dependencies and just wanted an easy way to install the statically-linked version, so here it is.

Have been super impressed with Taelmoor, a new take on the board game RPG genre that uses a smartphone app as the DM. For a small kickstarted game it plays really smoothly, the build quality is excellent, and the app/physical board interactions are perfect.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/delvebros/taelmoor-the-...

+1 on this. Previously worked in the developer tools division that builds VS, and whenever someone got assigned to work on a performance or crash bug you'd almost always wind up hearing them mutter "it's f*cking ReSharper again". The VS team has had a huge push in the last few years to improve code analysis, introspection, and refactoring (with Roslyn) specifically to try to replace / kill ReSharper. The company has no animus with JetBrains, and the team has nothing but respect for the value it's added to the ecosystem, but it's by far the biggest source of perf and crash issues in VS.

I know people feel like they just can't possibly live without it, but the refactoring tools in VS nowadays are much better, so I encourage folks to test drive by going a couple weeks without installing ReSharper. If you still really miss it and are willing to pay the performance penalty to have it after that, go for it. But give VS a fair shake without it.

Well not quite, because Microsoft also contributes $1k to an HSA as part of the plan every year.

That said, having to pay up to $3k a year in medical costs when you're earning a Microsoft salary is a much smaller percent of your income than having the pay the same making $15/hr at an Amazon warehouse.

Azul publishes a decent comparison matrix: https://www.azul.com/products/zulu-enterprise/jdk-comparison...