I asked lucidRESUME for an Engineering Lead résumé. It produced two pages covering six relevant roles, two recent projects and the skills which mattered to the target. The prose was the prose I had already reviewed. Twenty-eight inline links connected the…

StyloBot Release Series: The Sidecar Architecture

StyloBot's detection engine is ASP.NET Core. This post explains how that engine connects to Go gateways, Node.js applications, and any other stack via a gRPC sidecar, a typed Go SDK, and a Caddy plugin, without any of those consumers needing to know anything…

Building a Frontend Before the API is Ready: Without Brittle Fixtures

How many times have you been blocked waiting for backend APIs to be ready? Or spent hours maintaining brittle mock data that becomes stale the moment requirements change? Enter mostlylucid.mockllmapi - a production-ready ASP.NET Core mocking platform that uses…

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…

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…

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…

Keeping State Between Requests in ASP.NET Core: A Practical, No‑Nonsense Guide (MVC, Razor Pages, Minimal APIs)

UPDATE (2025-11-10): Added more practical examples from my actual codebase showing real-world patterns, trade-offs, gotchas, and the evolution from simple to sophisticated state management approaches. Includes detailed IMemoryCache patterns, ViewBag usage…

PagingTagHelper v1.0.0: Enterprise-Ready Pagination for Modern ASP.NET Core

NOTE: COMING SOON, just putting the finishing touches to it. Follow along on GitHub! . This is just to show you all I AM making progress with this control! It'll be worth the wait. Introduction After months of evolution and valuable feedback from the community…

Building a Remote Markdown Fetcher for Markdig

One of the challenges I faced while building this blog was how to efficiently include external markdown content without manually copying and pasting it everywhere. I wanted to fetch README files from my GitHub repositories, include documentation from other…