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It's always great to get back to the programmer‘s favourite hobby: Spending more time automating something than it would take to just manually do the thing.

One of the big problems with doing anything on computers is getting the information from your brain into the computer.

You’re in Power BI.

In the times that I’ve had to implement Single Sign On authentication for ASP.NET Core apps, I’m always trying to do it as quickly as possible.

Today, we're going to create a server-side Blazor app that uses Azure OIDC to authenticate.

If you’ve been a computer person long enough, then you’ll eventually come to terms with the fact that all the files on a computer are made up of the same ingredients: lists of bytes.

The lingua franca of the government/enterprise world for communicating data is the excel file.

Reporting # For a large amount of my life I didn't really measure much.

DotNetCore, Azure AD, and SAML are an odd mix of old and new tech I found myself needing to combine.

There's a hill near my house, about ten minutes walk away.

A few of my posts on here have been about coding on the cheap.

I've started a new blog!

You have a small site where you don’t expect many visitors, but you want dynamic server rendering and you want it cheap.

In my last post, I wrote about building an Apache module written in C.

Before we jump in, I should let you know these instructions are going to be for 64 bit Windows only.

If you make a search for "SQL” on Seek, you’ll find thousands of jobs.

I remember some of the first lines of JavaScript code I looked at were in Jon Duckett’s JavaScript & JQuery.

You’re making a JavaFX app and you want to render a collection properly by using a ListView or TableView.

lately I've been experimenting with C, C++, Win32, and SDL.

requestAnimationFrame is the way to create complex animations with JavaScript.

We use web apps to make a ridiculous quantity of content every day; videos, blogposts, statuses, documents.

Today I created my first Electron app.

I've recently been getting into the new generation of development tools like wmr, Vite, esbuild and Snowpack.

In 2016, back when we could freely travel without being a virus vector, I went on a 6 month trip through Europe.

What do people mean when they say “use the platform” or “web fundamentals”?

Over the last week or so I've migrated this website and blog from a custom PHP CMS I built to an Eleventy build hosted on an Azure storage container.

There are a thousand different ways to get a server up and running in different environments.

That's right you heard me!

2020 was the worst year ever for a whole lot of people.

As you can probably see from my earlier post about Lit-HTML and Haunted, I've been looking at alternatives to React for adding interactivity to pages without a whole lot of technical debt and without shipping a gigantic package size to the client.

I love using React.

I went to my second ever Javascript meetup last night.

I've just started building my gardening application and thought I'd note down a few of my first impressions getting into using Eloquent models.

One of the first full stack applications I built was a gardening app.

I've been trying to work on my design skills lately.

Back in the bad old days of PHP we needed to interact with our databases with raw SQL queries through the crusty old mysql extension.

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