21 hours agoMember-onlyWhy 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…Life8 min readLife8 min read
Published inIT Dead Inside·1 day agoMember-only.NET Polymorphic JSON serialisationAutomagically 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 Core7 min readDotnet Core7 min read
Published inIT Dead Inside·May 9Member-only.NET: MongoDB.Driver (2.19) Breaking Serialization ErrorsMongoDB.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 Core2 min readDotnet Core2 min read
Published inMy Writer’s Life·Apr 2Member-onlyEveryone is “Exceptional” Except MeConfessions 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…Writing8 min readWriting8 min read
Published inIT Dead Inside·Mar 31Member-onlyYou’re a software company? Hire a writer for your documentationStop 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 Development6 min readSoftware Development6 min read
Published inIT Dead Inside·Mar 29Member-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 inIT 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 inIT 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 Core app in Docker, and wanted to pass in the assembly version to the assemblies as they…Docker4 min readDocker4 min read
Published inIT 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 inIntelligence 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
