Dan Schnau's Blog

My therapist applies Internal Family Systems as part of her therapy.

A couple days ago I signed up for Kagi search on a trial.

Man, it's hard to focus in this day and age.

I've seen a headline come up recently for a New Yorker article: Can Sam Altman Be Trusted?

Today The President Of The United States Of America Threatened To commit Genocide.

I've taken interest in learning some low-level graphics programming.

I came across this post describing a "DIY Spotify" where basically instead of paying Spotify to keep my money and not pay artists, I pay artists directly with my monthly music-spend allocation.

Reading the docs for Code Intelligence I learned you can make Claude run way faster.

My prediction for AI in 2026 is that it's just gonna keep growing.

Introduction LinkDisguiser.com is a project I built to explore the capabilities of Azure Table Storage while solving a practical problem—creating a scalable and cost-efficient way to manage and disguise links.

Update November 2024 I wrote a much more detailed post about this subject here: https://danschnau.com/blog/how_to_add_a_Blazor_Server_App_to_an_ASPNET_Controller_Web_API I spun up a new Blazor Server App and wanted to add an API controller, but out of the…

Introduction: Why Migrate to Blazor?

LinkDisguiser.com has been updated to improve link shortening.

To hide warnings with the dotnet cli in commands such as dotnet build or dotnet test - you have to pass a flag to the underlying msbuild system. dotnet build --property:WarningLevel=0.

Blazor is a modern framework for building web applications with C#/.NET.

Today I wanted to find a way to extract data from my banking portals faster.

A while back I went domain name shopping and picked up a few cool sounding domains.

Azure Static Web Apps are one of my new favorite things.

Will Blazor Replace MVC?

There really isn't much use in doubting yourself at work.

I learned from Hacker News today that Eloquent Javascript is now in it's 4th edition.

When you upgrade an Azure Function to .NET 8 dotnet-isolated model, the Webjobs namespace goes away, and gets replaced by the Microsoft.Azure.Functions.Worker namespace.

In my previous post I had left open a problem of a 100ms delay that forced the screen to repaint.

As it turns out, Azure Functions might not like "comments" in your host.json, and it will fail awkwardly.

Using the Azure Devops Extension to to the Azure CLI, you can navigate directly to pipelines in your browser without having to click through the Azure Devops UI.

I was getting HTTP 409 errors when editing an Azure Function app, I couldn't understand why.

I sometimes want to generate a list of numbers going "up" and "down" from a given number (usually, the ID of an entry in a database).

This site was at the front of Hacker News this morning: https://whatpwacando.today/.

It would appear that AOT compilation gets substantial performance improvements in client-side application performance.

I'm excited to share that https://danschnau.com is now hosted with Blazor Static Server side rendering.

Not long after I was laid off, I signed up to give a tech talk at Michigan DevFest 2023, a tech conference in downtown Detroit.

As part of an upcoming project, I'll be working with GraphQL.

Here's some sample code for a blazor client-side component that allows uploading and rending an image.

I Know How To Code But I Don't Know What To Code With some extra time on my hands these days I am looking for things to code.

I added a 'word count' feature to my blog editor this morning.

Blazor will not simply replace MVC.

Here we go.

My fiancé's job is to provide middle schoolers with hacksaws, orbital sanders, drill presses, solvents, paints, and lumber, and then guide them in the safe usage of these tools and materials.

During the postwar expansion of the United Kingdom, a Naval Historian wrote about a phenomenon that explained why governments move at a glacial pace and at the same time, why it can take months to get a Pull Request merged.

This post is a response to Lucas F.

Today I put together an image management solution for Dan Schnau dot com in about an hour.

A User Story: As Dan Schnau, When I publish a new article on Dan Schnau Dot Com, I want a 'toot' with the title and a link to the article to be posted automatically, So that followers of the feed can go read the article.

I have been laid off from my job.

For about a year, I've had a problem where git push and git pull from dev.azure.com would intermittently fail with an error like this: ~#@❯ git pull ❮  fatal:…

When I offer my kids advice, I'm really just giving myself advice.

I got an invitation to Microsoft Designer, an AI-Powered design tool.

If you're like me, you're used to finding your .NET build artifacts in /bin and /obj directories inside your source projects.

Last week, Jeremy Likness discussed improvements to Authentication and Identity features in ASP.NET Core 8.

Authentication and Authorization (AuthN and AuthZ) are terms that refer to discrete, specific concepts that can easily be confused.

As an AI language model, it is difficult for me to express opinions or personal bias since my responses are generated entirely based on statistical patterns from the dataset I was trained on.