Martijn Storck, Freelance .NET and Azure Developer on storck.io

Swift makes actors a language feature: ordinary reference types whose mutable state is isolated by the compiler.

Some Ruby operations are painfully slow but writing a C extension to fix them is a big commitment.

One of the biggest drawbacks of SignalR is that it’s hard to scale.

Accessing Sharepoint from a .NET application without using Windows is easy.

xUnit has become the favorite unit testing tool for many .NET developers.

Azure Functions is a serverless compute solution that integrates with a wide selection of cloud services to allow developers to build isolated blocks of event-driven code in a cloud-native fashion.

The DateOnly type that was introduced in .NET 6 is convenient for exchanging strongly typed date information in APIs.

Regular expressions are not a great way to validate URLs.

The new minimal APIs in .NET 6 make creating low-ceremony microservices and backends very appealing, and they’re also a great way to add simple endpoints to Blazor Server applications, complete with Dependency Injection and JSON serialization.

Blazor is so great that I’d rather not use anything else.

In sociology, the broken windows theory states that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken.

Trix is a rich text editor that is popular with Ruby on Rails developers.

CircleCI provides several official orbs for interacting with Amazon Web Services, but not for CloudFormation specifically.

Today marks the release of Xsv 1.0.0, a high performance, pure-Ruby gem to parse .xlsx (Excel) files

I always thought indentation was a solved problem, until I needed to adapt to something different.

Years ago I replaced my IKEA TRÅDFRI gateway with a Rasbperry Pi with a Raspbee, running deCONZ.

People have been sleeping on .NET and they’re mising out.

Programming fonts are stuck in the past.

Combine Svelte and Typescript with Ruby on Rails’ Webpacker to improve your JavaScript workflow and get better feedback in your editor.

Cypress makes writing integration tests (or system tests) easier and more fun.

Docker image size matters.

Gitlab CI allows you to create and manage Kubernetes clusters directly from the interface and easily deploy builds to your existing Kubernets infrastructure.

Since the introduction of the Magic Keyboard, interest in using an iPad as a remote terminal for desktops is bigger than ever.

Prometheus Operator is the perfect cloud-native monitoring solution for Kubernetes.

TL;DR I wrote a super fast Excel file reader called Xsv, check it out!

The topic of this post is neither new nor original, so I’m going to keep things short.

Ruby on Rails 6 allows us to leverage the excellent Webpack bundler to manage JavaScript and CSS components in a way that’s more native to those technologies than the old asset pipeline: no more gems to wrap JavaScript libraries and no more libv8 gem issu…

For a long time I’ve been thinking about getting out of my comfort zone and try to develop a game for something like the Sega Mega Drive or maybe the Atari 2600.

If your Wi-Fi network is on channel 12 or 13, change the regulatory domain of your wireless networking driver to make the Raspberry PI 3B see it.