Published in On the Philosophies of Madness·3 days agoMember-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 29Member-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 27Member-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 13Member-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
Published in IT Dead Inside·Nov 12Member-onlyHow to Deal with Docker Containers and Timezones using tzdataTimezones aren’t as standard as you might think. Use tzdata to help standardise them across your containers — I’ve been working on a migration project to port old .NET Framework apps running on Windows over to .NET Core in containers. The job is pretty simple: Migrate all packages and code over to .NET standard or .NET Core, recreate the base scaffolding (REST APIs in ASP.NET Core and Worker…Docker4 min readDocker4 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Oct 29Member-onlyAccessing the ASP.NET Core Base URL: So Many WaysRetrieving your ASP.NET Core Base URL Is Possible In a Number of Different Ways — My Specific Situation: Accessing my App’s base URL for API calls If you haven’t heard, I’ve been building a Blazor server app for the past ten months. What the app does will come out eventually, but what I can say is the experience has been super fun and educational. In the span of less than a year, I feel I’ve learned…Aspnetcore7 min readAspnetcore7 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Aug 23Member-onlyLet’s Learn Blazor: Fluxor App State for BlazorTired of Blazor Component Event Hell? Try Fluxor on for size — 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 Blazor Components and Eventing: A journey into spaghetti code hell When it comes to building a front-end app, particularly a Blazor app, it all begins with sunshine and lollipops. You have…Blazor12 min readBlazor12 min read
Published in My Writer’s Life·Aug 20Member-onlyMy Writing Needed to Take a Back Seat (for a while, anyway)Take Time Off From Creativity to Regain Your Sanity and Make Space for your Muse — When Novels Attack: The Brain Drain that is Publishing You know, when you become a writer, no one tells you any of the realities of it. …Writing Tips9 min readWriting Tips9 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Aug 15Member-onlyLet’s Learn Blazor: File Streaming with JSInteropLearn to Stream Large Files in Blazor Server using JSInterop — 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 Dealing with file uploads in Blazor — especially Blazor Server — can be tricky.This …Blazor9 min readBlazor9 min read
Published in IT Dead Inside·Jul 18Member-onlyLet’s Learn Blazor: BlazorContextMenuAdd Context Menus to your Blazor App with just a few lines of code — 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…Blazor6 min readBlazor6 min read
