RAG for Implementers: Semantic Search in Action

📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4b - search features and UI: Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking, tokenisation, vector databases Part 3: RAG in Practice -…

PagingTagHelper v1.0.0: Enterprise-Ready Pagination for Modern ASP.NET Core

NOTE: COMING SOON, just putting the finishing touches to it. Follow along on GitHub! . This is just to show you all I AM making progress with this control! It'll be worth the wait. Introduction After months of evolution and valuable feedback from the community…

An Alpine.js and HTMX 'Clear Query String Parameter(s)' tag helper for ASP.NET Core

Just a quick one, I had a need in a work project for the ability to 'clear' URL parameters from a URL. This is useful when you have a URL with multiple parameters, and you want to remove one or more of them (for example for a search filter). The Problem My…

An Auto-Update Partial Updater with Alpine.js and HTMX

So in what's becoming a series, in a work project I wanted to add the ability for a partial to auto-update on a given timescale. Here's how I did it using Alpine.js and HTMX. Requirements So I wanted this to be reusable; so it should be simple and…

Building a Workflow System with HTMX and ASP.NET Core - Part 3: Building the Visual Editor

In Part 2, we built a powerful workflow engine. But workflows defined in JSON aren't very user-friendly. In this post, we'll create a stunning visual workflow editor - think "dummy's Node-RED" - using HTMX, Alpine.js, TailwindCSS, and DaisyUI. By the end of…

Building a Workflow System with HTMX and ASP.NET Core - Part 2: Architecture and Core Engine

In Part 1, we introduced the concept of building a custom workflow system. Now it's time to get our hands dirty! In this post, we'll build the core workflow engine - the heart of our system that executes node-based workflows. By the end of this post, you'll…

Building a Workflow System with HTMX and ASP.NET Core - Part 1: Introduction

Workflow systems are everywhere in modern applications - from simple approval processes to complex multi-step automations. While there are excellent commercial solutions like Temporal, Airflow, and n8n, sometimes you need something tailored to your specific…

A Newsletter Subscription Service Pt. 1 - Requirements and Subscription Page

While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog. I decided to implement my own version of this and share how I did it.…

A Smarter Search Dropdown with HTMX

In a previous post I showed you how to create a search dropdown using Alpine.js and HTMX then I showed how we could enable Cross-Site Request Forgery protection using the AntiforgeryRequestToken in ASP.NET Core with JavaScript using HTMX to implement a Donut…

HTMX (and a little Alpine.js) for a SPA-like experience in ASP.NET Core

In this site I use HTMX extensively, this is a super easy way to make your site feel more responsive and smoother without having to write a lot of JavaScript. NOTE: I'm not entirely happy with this yet, HTMX has some elements which make this tricky HTMX and…