Logging is OF COURSE a critical part of applications however I often see it misunderstood / misused in ASP.NET applications. This is part post and part manifesto on how to effectively log in ASP.NET Applications. This is not a complete guide to logging;…
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You may noticed my frantic frequency of posts (I was at two a day for a while month!) has slowed down of late so I thought I'd give a quick update. NOTE: Translation seems to have broken along the way, when I get a chance I'll fix that. Why the Slowdown? I…
In this site I use Hightlight.js to render code snippets client side. I like this as it keeps my server side code clean and simple. However, I wanted to add a copy button to each code snippet so that users could easily copy the code to their clipboard. This is…
It seems like everyone has a version of this code, I first came across this approach from Filip W and recently my old colleague Phil Haack has his version. Just for completion this is how I do it. Why? The why is to make it easier to work with configuration.…
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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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.…
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