Published in IT Dead Inside·Jan 28Member-onlyLet’s Learn Blazor: Smart.Blazor Components RockTry the amazing SmartHtmlElements Smart.Blazor Components in your next Blazor project — This is one of several articles on Blazor I’ll be writing, all so engineers can get familiar with the capabilities and tricks of this burgeoning and exciting web technology The Hunt for the Perfect Blazor Editor My most recent project needed a sophisticated editor and it needed to work in Blazor. Sure, there are any number of…Aspnetcore6 min readAspnetcore6 min read
Published in Intelligence Challenged·Jan 23Member-onlyFive Things No One Tells You about a Successful MarriageNo one talks much about what it really takes to keep a marriage together — Big ups to my partner and I. This year will be our 30 year wedding anniversary. We’re empty-nesters now. Kids are grown and out of the house. We are living our lives as one of those annoying couples who seem happy and satisfied in their lives and in each other. …Marriage10 min readMarriage10 min read
Published in My Writer’s Life·Jan 10Member-onlyFailure is Your FriendThe Road to Success is Paved with the Stones of your Fails — I’ve been teaching martial arts and acrobatics for the past 15–20 years. Prior to this, I’d been studying them for nearly 25 years. I have been at this nonsense for just about 40 years (which is weird to write that out. 40 years?!), …Martial Arts8 min readMartial Arts8 min read
Published in Intelligence Challenged·Jan 5Member-onlyStop Blaming Your Age For Giving UpI’m sick of people my age using “getting older” as their excuse for everything — “Getting old is not for wimps,” is one of my dad’s favourite expressions. He uses it a lot. What it means (best I can tell) is that getting old is hard, painful, ugly and downright unpleasant, and if you’re a wimp, you’ll suffer old age badly. My dad is a…Aging8 min readAging8 min read
Published in On the Philosophies of Madness·Dec 31, 2022Member-onlyI Gave up Booze and Miss it all the time(but I’d still never go back) — It was a year ago that I gave up booze. For good or for ill, I put the drink away. It was a long time in coming, but the time had finally arrived. I had sunk to an all-time low (and for me, that’s saying a lot), and was drinking…Relationships6 min readRelationships6 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Dec 14, 2022Member-onlyLet’s Learn Blazor: Background Service Communication with Blazor via SignalRLet your ASP.NET Core Background Service communicate with your Blazor app via SignalR — This is one of several articles on Blazor I’ll be writing, all so engineers can get familiar with the capabilities and tricks of this burgeoning and exciting web technology I was in a conundrum. I needed to process data outside of my Blazor server app’s main thread. I needed a…Blazor6 min readBlazor6 min read
Published in On the Philosophies of Madness·Dec 4, 2022Member-onlyA Brief Glimpse at “Nirvana”An ordinary guy’s experience of Satori and how it changed my worldview — I’m the first to admit: I’m no Zen Master. I’m no Holy Person. I don’t claim to have any deep spiritual insights (or at least no more than any other goon out there). I think ‘spiritual’ or ‘religious’ people are often either disturbingly saccharine or downright creepy (not to mention…Religion8 min readReligion8 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Nov 29, 2022Member-onlyBeware Excessive Unit TestingIt’s okay: You don’t need (or necessarily want) 100% code coverage — A Caveat “Excessive Unit Testing” may not be an expression with which you’re familiar. It may sound like a convenient way to dodge writing unit tests (and trust me, it can be). In what we’ll talk about today, you’ll see how it’s not. Before we go further, read all this with a…Programming7 min readProgramming7 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Nov 27, 2022Member-onlyBig Tech Is Burning DownLet It Burn — You know, I’m not all that keen on relishing in the failings of others…except when it comes to Big Tech. Yes, the once darlings of the financial world, those rising stars which would apparently never stop rising, Big Tech is now getting a full and thorough trouncing. …Technology5 min readTechnology5 min read
Published in Intelligence Challenged·Nov 13, 2022Member-onlyWhy 1% of you should give up Social Media(the other 99%, carry on as you were) — Social Media and Me: A Silkwood Shower Story AD 2015 >> So like nearly everyone else in the industrialised world, I had social media accounts. I had a Facebook feed and made time to gawk at Instagram. I saved and organised Pinterest pics. As a writer, apparently it was required that I have a Twitter account, so I…Social Media13 min readSocial Media13 min read
