Bald Bearded Builder

Dependency injection is powerful until small mistakes turn into late night outages.

Lists grow by reallocating and copying, which adds hidden cost as data scales.

Silent misconfiguration is sneaky and expensive.

Virtual, override and partial are tiny C# keywords with huge impact on design.

EF Core does not make queries fast by default.

Sealed looks like a tiny keyword, but it carries serious weight in modern .NET.

Exceptions are powerful for diagnostics but expensive in tight loops and high traffic code.

Time bugs are sneaky and expensive, but they do not have to be.

Your API should feel like a collection of small, focused stories, not a scavenger hunt through Services and Interfaces.

Parallel.ForEach feels like a free speed boost, until it slows your app to a crawl.

Learn how to build a clean, production ready audit trail in EF Core that records who changed what and when without stuffing logic into your DbContext.

Model validation has been a reliable but costly part of every ASP.NET Core request.

Nullable is not a mini reference type and pretending it is will bite you.

Let's break down the real jobs of typeof, object.GetType and Type.IsAssignableFrom with small, runnable examples and a few nerdy references for fun.

Tired of arguing about repositories in EF Core?

C# 14 adds support for unbound generic types in nameof, so you can write nameof(Logger<>) and nameof(Dictionary<,>) without supplying throwaway type arguments.

EF Core 10 introduces LeftJoin and RightJoin to make outer joins readable and intuitive.

.NET now offers several methods for creating APIs.

With C# 12, you can now alias type, including tuples, array, pointer, and unsafe types.

C# 12 provides a new way to use constructors that can potentially save you time, but there are several things to watch out for.

My entire life is planned & documented in Notion.

Learn how to build a workflow that allows people to call & leave a message that will automatically be transcribed and emailed, using Twilio Studio, Pipedream, and Deepgram.

Deepgram has made testing OpenAI's new open-sourced Whisper speech recognition model easy as copy and paste.

Personalized short URLs are cool.

Remembering the integrity and tenacity my mom displayed in her life and the lessons she worked to instill in me.

Using JavaScript and Pipedream to automate changing my Notion cover image each night.

How we transformed the bad experience of landing on a 404 page into an enjoyable experience with a game.

Learning to build a NuGet package by building a .NET SDK for the Deepgram API, while ensuring it's compatible with as many versions of the .NET Framework and as many platforms as possible.

Building a Discord bot sounds like a fun and I couldn't think of a better first project than trying to make it a safer space for everyone.

Polywork is an interesting new LinkedIn competitor.

Let's talk about ten Visual Studio Code extensions that every developer, regardless of language or platform, can benefit from using today.

Building for the web using a language you're already comfortable with?

I've always wanted to build a desk that fits me.

A reflection on one year of coding live on Twitch to learn new technologies, share what I know, and encourage others to grow personally & professionally.

It's a common scenario—you built a quick prototype, it worked great, and now management wants it live yesterday.

Building a multi-party video conference that allows us to analyze the sentiment of each participant based on their facial expression.

AutoMappers usage via dependency injection changed in ASP.NET Core 3.

RESTful APIs provide a great way to make our APIs easier for users to consume.

How to mount Azure File Storage as a persistent volume in your multi-container App Services.

Using environment variables from Azure Key Vault is a little different for Functions than Web Applications.

Don't want to install SQL instances on your personal or work machine?

Want people to contribute to your repositories?

How much time could you save by shortening common commands and parameters using PowerShell aliases?

I've started working a lot more at trying to get my setup just right so I could live code some personal projects and hopefully help others learn new technologies.

In production, our application on a Pi communicates with a Restful API that lives at our clients main office.

Recently one of our clients approached us to develop an application that would run on a Raspberry Pi to use in kiosk's throughout their facilities.

With multiple clients, projects, deadlines, release schedules running at once, it's hard to keep up with what features are being released in a build.

These days, the topic of women in technology is hot.