Hi, I'm Scott Galloway.

HTMX with ASP.NET Core Partials: The Server-Side Renaissance

If you've built traditional ASP.NET Core MVC applications, you know the problem: that dreaded "click flash" when users navigate between pages. Full page reloads, the browser chrome flickering, content jumping around as the new page renders. It works, but it…

Multi-Browser E2E Testing with Playwright for .NET

Playwright is Microsoft's official solution for modern browser automation, offering multi-browser support (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) with a single API, built-in trace debugging, and mobile emulation. This guide covers everything from setup to advanced testing…

End-to-End Testing with PuppeteerSharp - A Proper Alternative to Selenium

Modern E2E (End-To-End, using your site like users would) testing doesn't have to be painful. This comprehensive guide shows you how to use PuppeteerSharp for fast, reliable browser automation in .NET-covering everything from basic testing to PDF generation…

Background Services in ASP.NET Core - Part 2: Practical Examples

Theory is one thing; production code is another. In Part 1 we covered the abstractions—now let's see how they're applied in a real codebase. This article walks through actual background services from this blog platform: file watchers with Polly retry policies,…

Background Services in ASP.NET Core - Part 1: The Approaches

Every modern web application has work that shouldn't block an HTTP request—sending emails, processing files, syncing with external services, running scheduled maintenance. ASP.NET Core provides multiple approaches for handling this background work, from simple…

Using CSX Scripts for Quick C# Testing

Need to test a snippet of C# code without spinning up a full project? C# Script files (.csx) let you write and run C# code like a scripting language. No Program.cs, no .csproj, no build step - just write and run. Perfect for testing APIs, validating logic, or…

Why You Didn't Find This on Google (And How I Fixed It)

I've been running this blog for a while now, writing detailed technical articles on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, HTMX, and all sorts of .NET goodness. Yet my search rankings were... underwhelming. After finally investigating why, I discovered I'd been…

Why Most Commercial 'AI' Projects Are Dumb

"We're building an AI-powered knowledge assistant that will revolutionise how our employees access information..." Every job advert, pitch deck, and consultancy proposal in 2024-2025 Introduction I've spent the past month or so properly immersing myself in the…

AI-Powered Alt Text Generation with mostlylucid.llmlltText

Want to get nice, descriptive alt text for images on your sites or jsut extract text from them? mostlylucid.llmalttext uses Microsoft's Florence-2 vision language model to generate high-quality alt text automatically - running entirely locally on your machine,…

RAG for Implementers: Semantic Search in Action

📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4b - search features and UI: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice -…