4 hours agoMember-onlyLet’s Learn Blazor: Rendering HtmlThere are some great options for rendering HTML and Markup in Blazor — 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 Preview Page If you’ve been following me and my technobabble in the last year or so, you know I’ve been busy building a…Aspnetcore6 min readAspnetcore6 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Feb 22Member-onlyStop blaming remote working for all your company’s crapCEOs are rushing to crush remote working because work / life balance is bad for something or other — I’ve read a number of articles and blog posts that CEOs are demanding their staff get back to the office or find a new job. Elon “The Uber Douche” Musk, whatever that guy’s name is at Apple, even Zoom is laying off remote workers. …Work8 min readWork8 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Feb 19Member-onlyDocker ARGs, ENV vars and Build StagesUnderstanding your Docker build stages and the repetition of ARGs and ENV vars — “What the hell?!” I growled at my workstation. My workstation did not answer, but just sat mute to my growing frustration. See, I was in the midst of trying to build a .NET …Docker4 min readDocker4 min read
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
