Software Architecture, Homelabs and Videogames
I write a lot of Enterprise Libraries — a fancy name for “code I refuse to write twice” — and I keep perfectly reasonable markdown guides on how to install and use them via NuGet. And yet, without fail, every single time, I end up opening Visual Studio or VS Code anyway
Hello!!! This is going to be a short post, and for once I actually mean it. I'm currently working on automating the creation of PlantUML diagrams and embedding them directly into Word documents and Excel spreadsheets — yes, that's a real thing people need, yes, it'
Well, I haven't written a game post in a while — that's overdue, and frankly a little embarrassing given how much of my personality is secretly “guy who plays rhythm games.” I've been playing Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) since the very first arcade version came
Welcome back — today we're talking about one of my favorite technologies, and yes, I do have favorites, I'm not made of stone. OData!! You have no idea how many hours this standard has saved me, and how many circular API-design arguments it's ended before
Short post today. NTFY — yes, that's genuinely the name, not a keyboard having a small seizure — is a tool for sending push notifications, especially to mobile. Why would you want this? Off the top of my head, in no particular order of urgency: * Checking if a site is
In-memory cache is a fast, easy way to serve up data — objects, lists, whatever — that gets hammered constantly. Not everything belongs in memory, and Redis will get you the same result for plenty of use cases, minus the part where a bad deploy wipes your entire cache into oblivion. Just
Hello, after a long break, I'm back. Recently my wife came to me for a quick brainstorm: could we submit Jira tickets via a Google Form? Why, I asked her, exactly what you're thinking right now. Her answer: it's easy to build a form,
I smoke test my APIs on every deploy — cheap insurance against “it built successfully” quietly meaning absolutely nothing about whether the thing actually works. If you're on Azure Web Apps or Functions, you've got deployment slots: push to a slot, poke it to make sure it&
This one's short but genuinely important. QR codes are everywhere now — parking meters, restaurant menus, that mysterious flyer stapled to a telephone pole promising to change your life — and yet almost nobody actually knows how the things are generated. They just sort of... appear, like static electricity or
Validation. Nobody's favorite chore, right up there with writing unit tests for code you already personally guarantee works. And yet it's one of the most important things standing between “clean data” and “why does production have a product named null with a price of negative four
