The core principle: make releases fast and painless, and you'll release more often. This is critical for agile development - rapid, reliable deployments create the fast feedback loop you need. When...
Thursday, 04 December 2025 12:00
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6 minute read
Welcome to Part 2 of our comprehensive guide to data access in .NET! In Part 1, we explored Entity Framework Core in depth, including SQL generation, common pitfalls, and that critical warning about...
Wednesday, 03 December 2025 15:00
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20 minute read
When building .NET applications, one of the most important architectural decisions you'll make is how to handle data access and object mapping. The .NET ecosystem offers a rich variety of approaches,...
Wednesday, 03 December 2025 14:00
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21 minute read
Ok quick piece here. You've read all about semantic search, in MANY articles here. But you may have noticed; THIS SITE AIN'T ACTUALLY USING IT YET. So where is it?
Simple the way I deploy this site...
Wednesday, 03 December 2025 12:30
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Less than a minute
Now that you understand the fundamentals of k6 and performance testing, it's time to put that knowledge into practice. This article walks you through writing real tests, integrating them into CI/CD...
Tuesday, 02 December 2025 15:00
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37 minute read
Your application works perfectly on your laptop. Unit tests pass. Integration tests pass. You deploy to production, and suddenly everything grinds to a halt. Five hundred real users hit your homepage...
Tuesday, 02 December 2025 14:00
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13 minute read
If you've been following this blog, you might have noticed that my main blogging platform is... let's call it "enthusiastically engineered." PostgreSQL AND vector databases, semantic AND full-text...
Monday, 01 December 2025 12:00
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10 minute read
From 89 articles to 487 (including >80 totally new ones)!
Well November is almost over so I thought I'd add some highlights and information about what we've done this month.
AI & LLM Deep Dive
The...
Sunday, 30 November 2025 12:00
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7 minute read
When testing code that uses HttpClient, the traditional approach involves mocking HttpMessageHandler using frameworks like Moq. While this works, it can be verbose, ceremony-heavy, and frankly a bit...
Saturday, 29 November 2025 07:00
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5 minute read
If you've built traditional ASP.NET Core MVC applications, you know the problem: that dreaded "click flash" when users navigate between pages. Full page reloads, the browser chrome flickering, content...
Friday, 28 November 2025 12:00
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17 minute read
Playwright is Microsoft's official solution for modern browser automation, offering multi-browser support (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) with a single API, built-in trace debugging, and mobile emulation....
Thursday, 27 November 2025 14:00
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18 minute read
Modern E2E (End-To-End, using your site like users would) testing doesn't have to be painful. This comprehensive guide shows you how to use PuppeteerSharp for fast, reliable browser automation in...
Thursday, 27 November 2025 12:00
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38 minute read
Theory is one thing; production code is another. In Part 1 we covered the abstractions—now let's see how they're applied in a real codebase. This article walks through actual background services from...
Thursday, 27 November 2025 09:30
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24 minute read
Every modern web application has work that shouldn't block an HTTP request—sending emails, processing files, syncing with external services, running scheduled maintenance. ASP.NET Core provides...
Thursday, 27 November 2025 09:00
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24 minute read
Need to test a snippet of C# code without spinning up a full project? C# Script files (.csx) let you write and run C# code like a scripting language. No Program.cs, no .csproj, no build step - just...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 20:00
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28 minute read
I've been running this blog for a while now, writing detailed technical articles on ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, HTMX, and all sorts of .NET goodness. Yet my search rankings were... underwhelming....
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 14:00
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10 minute read
"We're building an AI-powered knowledge assistant that will revolutionise how our employees access information..."
Every job advert, pitch deck, and consultancy proposal in 2024-2025
Introduction
I've...
Wednesday, 26 November 2025 09:00
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29 minute read
Want to get nice, descriptive alt text for images on your sites or jsut extract text from them? mostlylucid.llmalttext uses Microsoft's Florence-2 vision language model to generate high-quality alt...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 14:00
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12 minute read
📖 Part of the RAG Series: This is Part 4a - core implementation:
Part 1: RAG Origins and Fundamentals - What embeddings are, why they matter
Part 2: RAG Architecture and Internals - Chunking,...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 11:00
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23 minute read
📖 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,...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025 09:00
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15 minute read
