Dan Schnau's Blog

A few years ago I visited a used book store in Seattle.

Good software engineers have to understand the business they're working in.

ChatGPT is at the peak of the hype cycle.

A friend (a geniuine friend, who I truly respect, both personally and professionally) shared this video with me the other day.

I had an instrumentation key but I didn't know what instance of application insights telemetry was getting pumped into.

In the article for Agile Software Development, there are six thousand, eight hundred words and over 100 references.

Software isn't always complicated.

Shortly after I wrote the "Suicidal Ideation" post, I had a really really bad day.

Rule #1: Never commit code you haven't run at least once, no matter how small or simple.

The node-sass npm package has given me problems on various projects at various companies over the years.

JavaScript has ‘truthiness’ and ‘falsiness’.

This is not a cry for help.

I’m learning container tech on the fly at work.

The Direcive Attribute @ref can be used to refer to a specific DOM element.

Here’s the steps to getting a Blazor Component’s code out of a @Code block and into it’s own file.

For me, this February will mark 10 years of collecting a steady paycheck in software engineering working on “boring business software”.

Because of the pandemic, my sons have been using laptops a lot for gaming during the day.

While updating my build failed with an upgrade from ASP.NET Core from 2.2 to 3.1.

Until now, this blog was entirely a read-only site.

I encountered an issue the other day where I was unable to run unit tests in the Visual Studio 2019 Test Explorer.

In JavaScript, you can use Promise.all() if you need to wait for a few promises to complete before moving forward in a routine. var p1 = getData(); // getData returns a promise with some data when it completes. var p2 = 42; var p3 = new Promise(function(r…

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I was developing an app locally on a different laptop than usual.

This March I began a new job at SkyKick.

"Google" is a company built on a search engine.

My stance on JavaScript strict vs. type-converting comparison (double vs. triple-equals) is to always use strict equality.

This afternoon I'm experimenting with Dapper, a micro-ORM used by Stack Overflow.

Or: "Four Strategies you can apply to work effectively with an Object Oriented Programming Language" Abstraction Encapsulation Inheritance Polymorphism When I was in college, and for my first few years of Seriour Business Programming Jobs, these four conc…