I've more or less made a similar migration towards non-US alternatives for most of my services. In my case, I switched from GitHub to Worktree (https://worktree.ca/).
Yeah, I was confused by that as well. Typora is sold as a perpetual license for 3 devices at $15. I don't understand why their friend would be tired of paying for it.
I'm willing to put up with a lot during an application process, but not Canonical's circus. If applying for a job at a company tells you anything about the company's culture then I don't think I would ever want to work there.
As a follow-up to my custom track editor for the Donkey Konga games, I spent part of the holiday season working on a launcher to make playing custom tracks in the games easier and released a beta build just before Christmas: https://parham.itch.io/kongabeat/devlog/853452/konga-beat-10...
My goal now is to ship the 1.0 release in the next month or two and post the source code on GitHub under the MIT license.
I quite like working with C#, but Unity introduces a lot of unnecessary overhead and isn't designed to build an application like this. I had to use goofy hacks to make Konga Beat behave approximately like a regular native application.
Admittedly, this may be a disappointing answer: when I started working on Konga Beat, I didn't fully grasp the extent of the rhythm game modding scene. I was so excited to make a dedicated editor that I just went for it.
Only when I was deep into working on Konga Beat did I discover editors like Moonscraper and Peepo Drum Kit. Even then, I was having so much fun working on Konga Beat that I wanted to see it to completion.
Konga Beat uses a paid Unity extension which limits my ability to share the source code in a public repo. The code is also, admittedly, a bit messy. That said, I am happy to share the project's source code if you'd like to check it out! :)
Good call. I tried fitting a screenshot or two on the homepage before, but couldn't figure out an easy way to do it with the default VitePress layout. I should give it another go.