Software Architecture, Homelabs and Videogames
Welcome to the finale of this series — a little Azure, a little architecture, and finally, some actual C#. I'm doing this one backwards: Azure Key Vault setup first, then Visual Studio, then the library in action, then the architecture, and only at the very end, the code walkthrough.
When requesting an OAuth bearer token for machine-to-machine communication (usually to talk to an API), the lazy path is client credentials with just a client ID and secret. It works. It's also not great, security-wise — a static secret sitting in a config file is basically a Post-it note
Ever wondered if there's an “easy” way to test the signed-JWT-request flow? There is — if you're already handing OKTA or Auth0 a monthly invoice for the privilege. But what do you do when you're prototyping a POC at midnight, or your actual dev environment
The C4 model is a way of visualizing software architecture that doesn't require a whiteboard, three markers, and a passive-aggressive debate about whose box goes where. It's lightweight, it scales, and — unlike 90% of architecture diagrams I've been handed in my career — a human
In a previous post, I showed you how to stand up your own self-hosted UML editor. Congratulations, you now own the equivalent of a blank canvas and a box of crayons. This post is about not drawing like a caveman. Let's start with this painfully honest sequence diagram:
This one's going to be short — mostly because the answer to “how do I do this” is genuinely just a YAML file, not a whole architecture diagram. I get asked a fair amount how I publish my NuGet packages into GitHub Packages, so let's just show
I've been playing video games since the Atari 2600, which means my “back catalog” now qualifies as a historical archive. Zero plans to slow down, though — which creates a real problem, because a lot of that catalog doesn't exactly run on a PS5. Sometimes the game
If you've spent any time in software architecture, you already know the drill: someone asks for “just a quick diagram” and three hours later you're wrestling Visio stencils into submission like you're assembling IKEA furniture with instructions written in Elvish. Sequence diagrams, class diagrams,
Extract from a certificate the base64, JWK and private key
