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AI-assisted coding feels a bit like being handed the keys to a race car.

IntroLast October, my post “Why I Ditched Disqus for My Blog” unexpectedly reached the #1 spot on Hacker News - and stayed on the front page for more than 11 hours.

IntroI’ve had qBittorrent running happily in Docker for over a year now, using the linuxserver/qbittorrent image.

Privacy-First PDF Merging: Why I Built merge-pdf.appWe’ve all been there.

IntroThis will be a short and sweet post.

IntroI’ve been searching for a secure and efficient Node in Docker setup for a little while now.

IntroIn Jan 2024, I’d had enough.

IntroI’ve been using cronjobs for a long time.

IntroductionRecently I’ve had to work with a data model in C# that the team I’m on doesn’t own.

Today on my Linux Mint install (21.2) I got the error cups-pki-invalid when trying to print a document.

I’ve been a Windows user since first using a mouse.

This is a short and sweet post about creating Nemo Actions in Linux Mint.

In this post I’m going to demonstrate how I use F# to retrieve data from a website (HTML), parse and expose it to Home Assistant which allows me to receive weekly notifictions on when to take my bins out for collection by my council.

In this post I’m going to show you how to implement Public Key Encryption in the browser with standardised APIs in JavaScript.

In this post I’m going to show you how to achieve massive savings for data backup.

This is a short and sweet post, reminding myself (and you too) of a few ways to reclaim Drive space on your development machine.

This post will demonstrate how to setup wildcard subdomains for your CORS config in ASP.NET Core The SituationRecently, a company I work for has been exploring the idea of starting a SaaS business model.

IntroWant to run a GET/POST/PUT request from inside Visual Studio 2022?

IntroI’ve recently moved my blog from Ghost to Hugo.

In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to globally disable (certain) controller Methods using ASP.NET Core.

I hate throwing things away, even tech that isn’t working - optimistically believing that I’ll find the time to fix it.

In this short post I’m going to show you the basics of backing up a DVD with MakeMKV, and how to disable Auto Update for MakeMKV (makemkvcon).

In this post I’m going to show you how I recently cleaned up loads of space on my AWS Cloud9 instance, when I got the annoying “No space left on device” message.

This blog has been hosted on Ghost since I first set it up back in 2016.

In this post I’m going to take a quick look at the built in Response Caching feature in ASP.NET Core.

In this blog post I’m going to take a deeper dive into the Dataflow .NET (Core + Framework) Library I alluded to in my previous post.

In this post I’m going to document a recent freelance project I worked on.

IntroThis blog post details my first experience of writing F# code.

Twit TipsI’ve seen some software funnies in my time, in this on-going mini-series I’m going to be sharing them with you.

In this (small) post I’m going to demonstrate how to use a VueJS custom directive to hide an element, whilst still keeping it’s occupied space.

In this post we’ll look at implementing Auditing in EF Core. specifically recording the last user to “touch” (create, update or delete) a row.

Hi 👋, I’m Ryan Southgate a Software Developer in the West Midlands, UK.

I’ve been writing a lot of Entity Framework Code recently for a company developing an OLTP System and I’d forgotten how much you get “for free” with Entity Framework.

Twit TipsI’ve seen some software funnies in my time, in this on-going mini-series I’m going to be sharing them with you.

I’ve been very, very late to the party and have only just discovered Docker.

This is a very short post about a nice VueJS component I’ve written recently.

Last April I quit my job, to start a business adventure with my good friend Liam. 9 months and 32,000 lines of code later…..

In the second and final part of this short series, I’ll setup Webpack “production” (cache-busting) builds and add script tags (from Webpack created file names - with hashes) dynamically from C# in ASP.NET Core.

In this 2-part series, I’m going to demonstrate a non-SPA ASP.NET Core and Webpack integration.

By the end of this post you’ll have an understanding of how to share common View Components and (Partial)Views across different Web Applications in ASP.NET Core MVC.

In this post I’m going to walk through some real-world code, currently in use by a friend for his Blog/Personal site, which subscribes people to his newsletter subscription list.

In this post I’m going to cover the steps needed when setting up Entity Framework Core Custom Migrations.

Skydive Instructor: “You’ve just jumped out of a perfectly good plane at 14,000ft” As of the 28th April, I’m officially jobless….well that’s a bit of a stretch, I’ve got a job….full time in fact, I’m just not getting paid for it.

I’ve been using Aurelia for a month now, I thought this would be a good time to write down my experiences with the framework.

In this post I’ll explain and demonstrate a directive I’ve written which allows you to use similar behaviour of the “track by” options we are given in select lists in AngularJS with radio buttons.

By the end of this post you will be able to integrate Angular 2 into an ASP.NET Core MVC Application (MVC page using both Razor and Angular 2) Both Angular 2 and .NET Core have been RTM for a little while now.

If you’ve read a few posts from my blog you’ll probably see that I’ve done a bit of work in the .Net world.

Highcharts is a fantastic library for drawing interactive charts on your website.

Just a quick post today, to help me remember more than anything - also because I couldn’t find anything on Google with a similar title.

In my quest to find the “right way of doing things”, or failing that “the least worst way of doing things” - I’ve come across a fairly well hidden secret about using Dependency Injection in Azure WebJobs.