Using Umami for Local Analytics

One of the things that annoyed me about my current setup was having to use Google Analytics to get visitor data (what little there is of it ??). So I wanted to find something I could self-host that didn't pass data to Google or any other third party. I found…

Adding a RSS feed with ASP.NET Core

RSS (and Atom) is still the only widely adopted format for syndicating content. It's a simple XML format that can be consumed by a wide range of feed readers. In this post, I'll show you how to add an RSS feed to your ASP.NET Core application. Creating the…

Adding Background Sending for Emails

##Introduction In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can take a while to send emails. This can be annoying for users…

Sending HTML Emails from ASP.NET Core with FluentEmail

This is a fairly simple article but will cover some of the odness of using FluentEmail in ASP.NET Core to send HTML emails I haven't seen elsewhere. The Problem Sending HTML mails is itself kinda simple with SmtpClient, but it's not very flexible and doesn't…

A Super Simple Comment System with Markdown

NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS I've been looking for a simple comment system for my blog that uses Markdown. I couldn't find one that I liked, so I decided to write my own. This is a simple comment system that uses Markdown for formatting. The second part of this will…

Adding Google Auth without ASP.NET Identity Database

In this app I wanted to add a simpple mechanism of allowing login to add comments (and some admin tasks) to the app. I wanted to use Google Auth for this purpose. I did not want to use the ASP.NET Identity database for this purpose. I wanted to keep the app as…

Using Markdown for Blogging

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular markup languages. On this site I use a super simple approach to…

Making your ASP.NET Core Website a PWA

In this article, I'll show you how to make your ASP.NET Core website a PWA (Progressive Web App). Prerequisites It's really pretty simple see https://github.com/madskristensen/WebEssentials.AspNetCore.ServiceWorker/tree/master ASP.NET Bits Install the Nuget…

Htmx with Asp.Net Core

Using HTMX with ASP.NET Core is a great way to build dynamic web applications with minimal JavaScript. HTMX allows you to update parts of your page without a full page reload, making your application feel more responsive and interactive. It's what I used to…

Tailwind CSS & ASP.NET Core

Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs. It is a highly customizable, low-level CSS framework that gives you all of the building blocks you need to build bespoke designs without any annoying opinionated styles you have…