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A Newsletter Subscription Service Part 2 - Refactoring the Services (and a little Hangfire)

In part 1 of this series I showed you how I created a new Newsletter Subscription page. In this part I'll cover how I restructured the solution to allow for sharing of Services and Models between the Website project (Mostlylucid) and the Scheduler Service…

A Newsletter Subscription Service Pt. 1 - Requirements and Subscription Page

While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog. I decided to implement my own version of this and share how I did it.…

Querying Postgres Data in Grafana

In a previous post I detailed how I added Grafana to my docker-compose to provide insights into performance for this site. As I have Umami on here AND self host the database for that in this post I'l cover how I added new panels to view the data in Grafana.…

Freelancing and disappointment

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A DEVELOPER / LEADER PLEASE CONTACT ME I've been a freelance developer for more than a decade now (since I left Microsoft really). For the most part it's been perfect for me. I love to work remotely; I'm deaf so offices aren't a great…

Using Grafana and Prometheus to Monitor ASP.NET Core 8+ Applications

Monitoring is an essential part of maintaining the health and performance of your applications. I already have this site monitoring user visits using Umami and exceptions and errors using Seq but now I wanted to add performance monitoring to the mix. In this…

Simple Search Using HTMX & EF Core for ASP.NET Core

This is just a quick article as it builds on the others in the full text search series such as the typeahead dropdown and Postgres full text search. In this post, I will show you how to implement a simple search page using HTMX and EF Core in an ASP.NET Core…

A Smarter Search Dropdown with HTMX

In a previous post I showed you how to create a search dropdown using Alpine.js and HTMX then I showed how we could enable Cross-Site Request Forgery protection using the AntiforgeryRequestToken in ASP.NET Core with JavaScript using HTMX to implement a Donut…

HTMX (and a little Alpine.js) for a SPA-like experience in ASP.NET Core

In this site I use HTMX extensively, this is a super easy way to make your site feel more responsive and smoother without having to write a lot of JavaScript. NOTE: I'm not entirely happy with this yet, HTMX has some elements which make this tricky HTMX and…

Using Polly For Retries

Polly is a critical part of any .NET developer's toolkit. It is a library that allows you to define policies for handling exceptions and retries in your application. In this article, we will explore how to I use Polly to handle retries in this application.…

Using A Hybrid Approach To Blogging

I've blogged many times about how I use Markdown to create my blog posts; I really like this approach but it has one major drawback - it means I have to do a complete Docker build cycle to update a post. This was FINE while I was creating more features which I…