A collection of 356 posts
Lately, I’ve been working hard on this blog. In a recent post about automating your blog with GitHub actions, I wrote a small .NET Core application that could process my RSS feed. In this post, I will show you how...
The dream of many open source developers is to one day cast off the shackles of their corporate overlords and dedicate themselves to their passion project.
Welcome fellow bloggers! If you are here, then you are interested in automating parts of your blog with GitHub Actions. I’ve been able to add efficiencies to my blog that help deploy future blog posts, keep third-party expenditure to a...
JetBrains Rider, The cross-platform .NET IDE from JetBrains, has been my defacto .NET development environment for over a year now (maybe even two). Having the same tool across macOS and Windows environments is a joy, and with every iteration, the...
I have worked on cross-disciplinary teams with a polyglot stack, and I imagine most developers have at this point in web develpoment history. The number one rule for team productivity is to help your downstream team members. In my case,...
Over the last year I’ve been dabbling in the dark arts of GraphQL. As a web api interface, its easy to consume and utilize, but I consider myself a back end developer first and for most. I have been spending...
As I write this post, its the first time in over a decade that I am not employed. Please don’t feel bad for me. I am privileged enough to take a well-deserved break from the hustle and bustle of everyday...
MSBuild is the glue that holds the .NET ecosystem together. As a powerful build system, it can do anything and everything to compose your applications. The tool has been around since the inception of .NET, but with .NET Core enhancements...
The marriage of .NET Core and static site generators is a beautiful thing. There are many great static site generator options out there like 11ty, Jekyll, Hugo, and many more. While you can accomplish amazing feats at build time, a...
There was recently a thread by David Whitney about inclusion and representation in the .NET community. I suggest you read it as it gives you an idea of the diversity of thought within the .NET community. The thread spoke to...
