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What are you Working On?

Today's chat (2026-04-14) is an opportunity to show what you have been working. Give us a quick explanation, and if time permits, a quick demo. By quick I mean 5 minutes or less. The actual time will be driven by how many people want to show off.

Anything software or technical is allowed. Some examples:

  • a product you are working on
  • some cool code you wrote
  • an interesting problem you recently solved

Looking forward to hearing what everyone has been working on lately!

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

*Featured image was created with Nano Banana using this post as the prompt. It is both amazing and creepy at the same time.

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Open Topics

Bring your own topic today. It can be technical, business, culture, career, etc.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

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Hosting a MySQL DB on hobby‑scale projects: Costs, Quirks, and Work‑arounds

I’ve been experimenting with MySQL on several cloud platforms including Railway, GCP Compute Engine, and other “free‑tier” services. Compared with PostgreSQL, getting a stable, free MySQL deployment has proven trickier (container-related errors, opaque usage‑based billing).

Have you run into the same hurdles? What are your work‑arounds? Any favourite low‑cost hosts? Any billing horror stories? Your tips could help everyone keep projects alive without breaking the bank.

Everyone and anyone is welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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