Donut hole caching can be a useful technique where you want to cache certain elements of a page but not all. However it can be tricky to implement. In this post I will show you how to implement a simple donut hole caching technique using HTMX. The Problem One…
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So I've posted a LOT in the past on using Umami for analytics in a self-hosted environment and even published the Umami.Net Nuget pacakge. However I was having an issue where I wanted to track users of my RSS feed; this post goes into why and how I solved it.…
One of my projects since starting this blog is an almost obsessive wish to track how many users look at my website. To do this I use Umami and have a BUNCH of posts around using and setting up Umami. I also have a Nuget package which makes it possible to track…
In the previous part of this series where I tested Umami.Net tracking methods The Problem In the previous part I used Moq to give me a Mock<HttpMessageHandler> and return the handler used in UmamiClient, this is a common pattern when testing code that uses…
I'm a relative noob using Moq (yes I'm aware of the controversies) and I was trying to test a new service I'm adding to Umami.Net, UmamiData. This is a service this allows me to pull data from my Umami instance to use in stuff like sorting posts by popularity…
This is Part 1 of the series. Part 2: What Actually Works? reviews the research behind developer interviews and explores a proposed skill-ledger approach. Introduction One of the MANY things that bug me on LinkedIn is the "how to interview developers" post.…
In the previous article, we discussed how to test the UmamiClient using xUnit and Moq. In this article, we will discuss how to test the UmamiBackgroundSender class. The UmamiBackgroundSender is a bit different to UmamiClient as it uses IHostedService to stay…
This is just a quick post to update everyone on the status of this blog. I started it a little over a month ago and decided to commit to at least one post a day for the first month. So far I've posted 52 times in 30 days, so I met and exceeded this goal (yay…
Now I have the Umami.Net package out there I of course want to ensure it all works as expected. To do this the best way is to somewhat comprehensively test all the methods and classes. This is where unit testing comes in. Note: This isn't a 'perfect approach'…
In the previous part I showed you how to set up self hosting for Seq using ASP.NET Core . Now that we have it set up it's time to use more of it's features to allow for more complete logging & tracing using our new Seq instance. Tracing Tracing is like…
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