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What happens when you swap the REST API of a real Vertical Slice Architecture template for GraphQL, and try not to touch the domain?

Big pull requests are painful to review and painful to rebase.

Every Aspire and EF Core sample tells you to hand-roll a MigrationService worker.

A modular monolith with Aspire, integration tests, and a real deployment ends up with config scattered across appsettings, user-secrets, env vars, and Key Vault.

When vibe coding across multiple git worktrees, losing track of which branch you're on is a real problem.

Stop waiting for one AI task to finish before starting the next.

Learn how to configure OpenCode to support the latest C# 14 features by installing an updated external language server.

Discover how the PARA method can transform your note-taking and file organisation, helping you stay focused on your top priorities.

Stop getting unpredictable results from your AI assistant.

Master FastEndpoints from ground zero - build blazing-fast, maintainable REST APIs with vertical slice architecture, comprehensive validation, and enterprise-grade features in .NET.

Discover how I transformed my tedious, manual process for creating Product Backlog Items into a streamlined, conversational workflow using GitHub Copilot, prompt files, and the GitHub MCP Server.

Learn how to deploy .NET Aspire applications to Azure App Service, Azure SQL Database, and Application Insights instead of the default Container Apps, including AZD configuration and deployment strategies.

Master the art of distinguishing between aggregate roots and entities in Domain-Driven Design.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows developers to extend LLMs by integrating them with existing APIs or local resources.

One of the tools I've been becoming more and more infactuated with recently is Raycast.

.NET Aspire significantly simplifies the inner development loop by providing a unified dashboard, streamlined configuration, and powerful orchestration capabilities.

Implementing a Modular Monolith Architecture provides a unique balance between the simplicity of a monolithic application and the development scalability benefits of microservices.

When starting a new project, one of the first and most important decisions you'll have to make is choosing a Software Architecture.

As .NET Developers, managing databases via EF Core is a core task.

As a longtime Windows developer, I decided to try a MacBook Air 13" as a travel device, influenced by my other colleagues who mostly prefer MacBooks.

For web developers, building REST APIs is our bread and butter.

In this blog post, we'll look at the challenge of whitelisting IP addresses when executing EF Core Migration Bundles from a GitHub Workflow.

This blog post delves into the latest updates in Entity Framework Core ORM (EF Core 8), emphasizing its new features and performance improvements.

I've been using Visual Studio for a very long time.

Recently, I’ve noticed some confusion relating to Clean Architecture and the concept of ‘services’.

In this blog post, we will dive deep into the realm of aggregate creation and explore various patterns that can elevate your mastery of this crucial aspect of DDD.

In the world of software development, Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are indispensable for capturing and communicating crucial architectural choices throughout a project's lifecycle.

Deploying a Function App to Azure using Bit Bucket Pipelines, the Azure CLI and Bicep templates.

Recently I migrated Dan Does Code from Gatsby to Next.js.

The Entity Framework Sandbox Template provides a dotnet CLI command to get you up and running fast with EF7, several entities, and a populated database.

An overview of the C4 model, including main and supplementary diagram types.

Introduction to PlantUML and Mermaid.

Reference article covering: installation and setup, variables, parameters, inputs/outputs, arrays, hashtables, flow control, loops, functions, debugging, error handling, filtering, sorting, projecting, formatting, and the help system.

An experiment to see if we can run Optimizely CMS on WSL2/Ubuntu with .NET 5.

Deep dive into Bicep templates including expressions, template logic, and ARM template decompilation, modules and best practices.

Automate Creating Azure Resources with Bicep.

C# 9.0 New Features include records, top-level programs, init properties, pattern matching enhancements, source generators and more.

Deploying a React application as a static web site in Azure Blob Storage.

Packaging and deploying an ASP.NET Core website to an Azure Web App using Bit Bucket Pipelines.

Building and testing ASP.NET Core code using Bit Bucket Pipelines.

dotnet cli templates for creating commands and queries in clean architecture.

An introduction to Clean Architecture, along with a comparison to the traditional N-Tier architecture.

How to enable Typescript checking of Javascript files in VS Code with JSDoc.

Unit Testing .NET Core with xUnit, NSubstitute, and Fluent Assertions.

Unit Testing .NET Core with xUnit, NSubstitute, and Fluent Assertions.