I’ve been putting together a proper filter bar for the blog list: language, date range, sort, and pagination that stays snappy with HTMX. It’s close now—but as always, the last 20% is the spicy bit:...
Monday, 10 November 2025 14:10
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5 minute read
Over the last few days I've been hammering away at the new blog filter bar: language selection, ordering, and a date range picker that tries very hard to be smart (sometimes too smart). This post...
Monday, 10 November 2025 09:00
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11 minute read
NOTE: This is part of my experiments with AI / a way to spend $1000 Calude Code Web credits. I've fed this a BUNCH of papers, my understanding, questions I had to generate this article. It's fun and...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 16:00
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16 minute read
If you've been following this blog, you know I'm a bit obsessed with machine translation. I've written about using EasyNMT, building background translation services, and even improving EasyNMT. But I...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 14:30
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23 minute read
Docker has fundamentally transformed how we build, ship, and run applications. What started as a simple containerization tool has evolved into a complete ecosystem for modern application development...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 14:00
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49 minute read
UPDATE (2025-11-10): Added more practical examples from my actual codebase showing real-world patterns, trade-offs, gotchas, and the evolution from simple to sophisticated state management approaches....
Sunday, 09 November 2025 12:33
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53 minute read
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Introduction
The ASP.NET Core request and response pipeline is the backbone of every web application built on this framework. Understanding how a request flows through your...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 10:44
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9 minute read
In Part 1, we explored the overall architecture of the ASP.NET Core request and response pipeline. Now, we'll dive deep into the foundation layer: the server and hosting infrastructure. This is where...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 09:15
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14 minute read
We've explored the hosting layer and Kestrel server in Part 2. Now we arrive at the heart of ASP.NET Core: the middleware pipeline. This is where your application's logic lives, where requests are...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 00:14
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18 minute read
We've journeyed through the hosting layer, explored Kestrel, and mastered middleware. Now we arrive at a crucial question: once a request makes it through your middleware pipeline, how does ASP.NET...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 00:13
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15 minute read
We've journeyed through the hosting layer, middleware pipeline, and routing system. Now we arrive at the application layer—where your business logic lives. ASP.NET Core offers three primary...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 00:12
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17 minute read
Throughout this series, we've explored the ASP.NET Core pipeline from its foundations to application models. Now we'll venture into advanced territory: the extension points and hooks that let you...
Sunday, 09 November 2025 00:11
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13 minute read
So, quick post to explain why I went nuts releasing stuff this week. Like any ancient developer, I have a whole archive of little projects I started, then gave up on, over the years.
WELL, it turns...
Saturday, 08 November 2025 19:30
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4 minute read
A FastAPI implementation EXACTLY copying the API of EasyNMT (https://github.com/UKPLab/EasyNMT) an excellent but abandoned neural-machine-translation project. But I've added SO MANY nice features to...
Saturday, 08 November 2025 12:30
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54 minute read
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...
Friday, 07 November 2025 19:12
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21 minute read
Me. a .net guy finally plucked up the courage to dip my toes into the world of npm packages!
Mermaid.js is obscure enough and odd enough that I could actually deliver something useful! So enjoy.
After...
Friday, 07 November 2025 16:00
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14 minute read
npm Package Available: This implementation is now available as @mostlylucid/mermaid-enhancements - a production-ready npm package. See Publishing Mermaid Enhancements as an npm Package for details on...
Friday, 07 November 2025 11:15
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14 minute read
One of the challenges I faced while building this blog was how to efficiently include external markdown content without manually copying and pasting it everywhere. I wanted to fetch README files from...
Friday, 07 November 2025 10:00
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32 minute read
In my LLMApi project I wanted to be able to support asking for LOTS of data; however LLMs have a very limited amount of data they can output at one time; and aren't particularly fast about doing it....
Thursday, 06 November 2025 13:35
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12 minute read
This is the documentation for the gRPC Mock API support in LLMApi.
NOTE: This is the live from GitHub. It is AI generated.
NuGet
NuGet
You can find the GitHub here for the project, all public domain...
Thursday, 06 November 2025 00:30
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14 minute read