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Screens: Seven Coins Drowning
Screens: Seven Coins Drowning

Why are you still looking? THEY are watching you. THEY feed on you...

2021

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Christopher Laine
Christopher Laine

Stories

19 hours ago

Why You’re Dissatisfied with Life

(With No Pat Answers on How to Stop It) — You hear them all the time. From yourself. From other people. That slightly irritated, somewhat defeated, often frustrated and angry sigh of discontentment when things don’t go our way. You might be aiming it at the checkout line or the queue at the bank. Someone else might be throwing it…

Life

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Why You’re Dissatisfied with Life
Why You’re Dissatisfied with Life
Life

8 min read


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IT Dead Inside

·1 day ago

.NET Polymorphic JSON serialisation

Automagically serialise and deserialise JSON to polymorphic types — I will admit, this might be a ‘bit’ of a fringe topic, but it definitely has real world application in some scenarios, and I’m hoping to save some poor sod from the pain and suffering I endured in working my way through this. What we’re looking at here is how…

Dotnet Core

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.NET Polymorphic JSON serialisation
.NET Polymorphic JSON serialisation
Dotnet Core

7 min read


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IT Dead Inside

·May 9

.NET: MongoDB.Driver (2.19) Breaking Serialization Errors

MongoDB.Bson.BsonSerializationException: Type is not configured as an allowed type for this instance of ObjectSerializer This is a quick post for those screeching and pulling out their hair. Recently, I upgraded my .NET MongoDB.Driver nuget package from 2.18.0 to 2.1.19.1 due to an identified security vulnerablity in the former. Upon doing…

Dotnet Core

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.NET: MongoDB.Driver (2.19) Breaking Serialization Errors
.NET: MongoDB.Driver (2.19) Breaking Serialization Errors
Dotnet Core

2 min read


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My Writer’s Life

·Apr 2

Everyone is “Exceptional” Except Me

Confessions of an Average Schmoe in the Creative Industry — As a creative, it’s up to you to have a ‘unique voice’. That’s what they’ve been telling me since grade school. Writers and artists who are vaunted are blessed with these unique voices, this exceptional or new view of life, love, war, etc, or so they told us. This seems…

Writing

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Everyone is “Exceptional” Except Me
Everyone is “Exceptional” Except Me
Writing

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IT Dead Inside

·Mar 31

You’re a software company? Hire a writer for your documentation

Stop asking devs to do something which isn’t their skill set — Like many writers in the tech space on Medium, I’m in an anomalous position: I’m an engineer who is also a professional writer. I like to write. I like writing about technology, science, fiction, weird stuff, whatever strikes my fancy. That’s what I’ve always loved. Technology came along after. Even…

Software Development

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You’re a software company? Hire a writer for your documentation
You’re a software company? Hire a writer for your documentation
Software Development

6 min read


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IT Dead Inside

·Mar 29

Let’s Learn Blazor: Rendering Html

There 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…

Aspnetcore

6 min read

Let’s Learn Blazor: Rendering Html
Let’s Learn Blazor: Rendering Html
Aspnetcore

6 min read


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IT Dead Inside

·Feb 22

Stop blaming remote working for all your company’s crap

CEOs 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. …

Work

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Stop blaming remote working for all your company’s crap
Stop blaming remote working for all your company’s crap
Work

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IT Dead Inside

·Feb 19

Docker ARGs, ENV vars and Build Stages

Understanding 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 …

Docker

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Docker ARGs, ENV vars and Build Stages
Docker ARGs, ENV vars and Build Stages
Docker

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IT Dead Inside

·Jan 28

Let’s Learn Blazor: Smart.Blazor Components Rock

Try 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…

Aspnetcore

6 min read

Let’s Learn Blazor: Smart.Blazor Components Rock
Let’s Learn Blazor: Smart.Blazor Components Rock
Aspnetcore

6 min read


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Intelligence Challenged

·Jan 23

Five Things No One Tells You about a Successful Marriage

No 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. …

Marriage

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Five Things No One Tells You about a Successful Marriage
Five Things No One Tells You about a Successful Marriage
Marriage

10 min read

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