A collection of 345 posts
Part of building a great user experience for users is allowing them to see the impact of their actions. When it comes to uploading images, one technique you can use to improve the UX of your applications is to preview...
I’ve recently spent a lot of time with my newest obsession, HTMX, and it’s seriously great. However, a challenge I face frequently is how to manage JavaScript dependencies in my ASP.NET Core applications. There’s NPM, Yarn, Gulp, Grunt, Webpack, Parcel,...
As you move towards .NET 6, you also get new opportunities to upgrade legacy codebases to the latest and greatest. Unfortunately, updating a legacy codebase can be nerve-racking. Luckily, in this post, I wanted to share a technique I recently...
I was recently in an office hour with folks who had recently upgraded an ASP.NET Core MVC application to .NET 6. All UI interactions began failing with very odd behavior in the upgraded version: Request models were entering actions as...
I recently updated my Twitter tip deck to a new format for 2022. If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, be sure to @buhakmeh. I use GitHub Actions to go through the existing images and pick one according to...
There are several uses for neural networks, but the one that’s most immediately understandable for folks centers around image manipulation. One of my favorite examples is style transfer onto existing images. For example, make your avatar look like a mosaic...
The ASP.NET testing story has gotten easier with each new iteration, emphasizing dependency injection and inversion of control (IoC) containers contributing much of the plumbing for your web applications. Along with more accessible configuration options, we also see more opportunities...
.NET’s greatest strength is its long history of supporting developers through each industry paradigm shift, but just because there’s a new way of doing things doesn’t mean the established method goes away. It’s also a source of confusion and frustration...
The efforts to containerize all the things are underway, with many tech vendors pushing remote development as a viable development option. So in the future, some percentage of your development stack will be remote-capable, which means more command-line familiarity is...
The C# language has turned on the turbo boosters regarding language features, with folks either loving or hating the additions. It’s fair to have an opinion, but today I’d like to show you one of my favorite new features coming...
