@devlead - Mattias Karlsson's Blog

Back in 2021 I wrote about my preferred .NET console stack, an opinionated alternative to dotnet new console built around Spectre.Console, dependency injection, and structured logging.

The total downloads of my packages on NuGet.org have crossed a quarter of a billion.

Mend Renovate automates dependency updates by opening pull requests when newer versions of your dependencies are available.

The Cake team recently announced Cake.Sdk, a new way to get the Cake tool scripting experience in regular .NET console applications.

For the last couple of months, I've had the pleasure of mentoring two talented .NET students, Andreas Siggelin and Elie Bou Absi.

Static web apps excel at delivering pre-rendered content quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively.

The Visual Studio solution files have long been an explicit and messy format, with lots of configuration that could be inferred from conventions.

On Windows, it's not unlikely that you'll encounter issues where you either have a repo that won't clone or files that won't commit.

There are undoubtedly many sophisticated and comprehensive solutions out there for mocking HTTP requests in .NET applications.

.NET 9 is just around the corner with the General Availability (GA) release scheduled for November 2024.