Mike Hadlow

I’m a big fan of the Zed editor.

For myself and many others, everything changed around November last year.

I’ve vibe-coded a new commenting system for this blog using BlueSky as the backend.

TL;DR Adopting an Identity As A Service (IaaS) provider can save huge time and effort when implementing a B2B SaaS product, but it can also result in deep lock-in with the provider.

I read a lot.

Hello!

I’m no designer, and I like to keep things simple and easy to configure.

This is my review of D3 Start to Finish by Peter Cook.

In a traditional .NET distributed application, application services (not to be confused with the Kubernetes ‘service’ object) would either be written as IIS hosted web applications or Windows Services.

This is my book review of Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais.

Recently I had a situation where I needed to test a class with dozens of event handlers.

This is my review of Mark Seemann’s new book, Code That Fits In Your Head - Heuristics for Software Engineering .

The Google.Protobuf NuGet package is the recommended protobuf serializer for .NET.

The StackExchange.Redis NuGet package is the most popular .NET client for Redis.

RabbitMQ (or more specifically the AMQP protocol) provides a degree of flexibility over other message-queue solutions with its exchange-binding-queue model.

EasyNetQ is an opinionated fully featured client API for RabbitMQ.

If, for whatever reason you want to create a stand alone instance of ConsoleLoggerProvider without having to leverage dependency injection and the full Hosting framework, you’ll find that the ConsoleLoggerProvider’s constructor requires an instance of an…

It’s very useful sometimes to be able to quickly view the object graph created by a dependency injection (or IoC) container, especially when you’re a new starter on an existing project.

I found myself writing the same code several times for a simple console periodic loop, so I’m posting the framework here mainly for my own benefit.

I’ve been blogging since 2005 and have written hundreds of posts in that time, but my blogging output has declined somewhat over the last few years.

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