Fast Git repository actions with gh cli — In my previous post on the GitHub CLI, I introduced the most basics of using gh to move your GitHub work from the browser and over into the command line. gh — The GitHub CLI Get to know the super-convenient CLI to save you time and effort doing things on GitHubmedium.com In this post, we’ll delve into working with GitHub repos via gh. As a tech blogger, I create and maintain…

There are simple but effective means for accessing URL data in your Blazor pages — 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 In creating Blazor apps, I find that there are certain things I want to do which may not be exactly the…

Turn Blazor Server into a cross-platform desktop app using the open source Electron framework for .NET — 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 So you’ve started building a web app using Blazor, but you realise it’ll likely be better suited as a desktop app…

Don’t be fooled: Putin and his enablers are playing the classic fascist mind games — History does enjoy repeating itself. This might be an age-old aphorism, but it’s not technically accurate. History isn’t a living thing. It doesn’t have a consciousness or a will of its own. History is the recording of human events, of what people have done. People are the ones who repeatedly…

You can’t beat the best Open Source Blazor component library around — 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 Over the years, I’ve developed a love/hate relationship with razor component libraries. On the one hand, I love the notion you…

Stop putting off til tomorrow what you should be doing right now — “Why is this breaking?” — a new dev on the team On one of my teams, a new dev was baffled why his code was resulting in a compiler error. I came over and looked at the error. The using directive for ‘System.Text.Json’ appeared previously in this namespace I nodded…

Let’s take a look at the easiest Blazor implementation for devs familiar with ASP.NET — 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’ve added a repo in GitHub with all the code from this article, so you can pull this down and try…

Get to know the super-convenient CLI to save you time and effort doing things on GitHub — A guilty confession: I love Git, but I hate the Git command line. Sure, sure, I know. I can hear the comments already. I can do literally EVERYTHING Git-related from the command line. …

Adults have had their chance and have only managed to screw everything up — Adults suck Yeah, I said it, and I mean it. Not just some adults: ALL adults. We’re loud and pushy and dismissive. We break everything and pollute like mad and rush around doing stuff that really makes next to no sense. We let other, reckless adults poison the world and exterminate other…