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EF Core Migrations Best Practices

Migrations feel simple, and they are… until they aren’t. A bad migration, especially in production, leads to a really bad day. It’s important to do all you can to get it right from the start.

  • entity-framework
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 13 minutes Read
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FastEndpoints vs ASP.NET Minimal APIs in 2026

MVC controllers are legacy and no longer the go-to technology for handling your endpoints. Minimal APIs are the mainstream, but FastEndpoints has developed a strong following

  • fast-endpoints
  • minimal-apis
  • dotnet
Thursday, April 2, 2026 | 10 minutes Read
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How I Use AI To Help With My Blog

AI is great and has it’s uses. One of those uses is to help my content making to be more efficient and productive.

  • youtube
Friday, March 27, 2026 | 1 minute Read
Mistake and Delete
EF Core Global Query Filters - The Soft Delete Pattern You Should Be Using

It’s one of the eternal debates of software development data management: How do you manage records that get deleted?

  • ef-core
  • dotnet
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 9 minutes Read
Gloomstep Dungeon: A Rogue-like Game By Barret Blake and Claude
Experiments with AI - Building a Roguelike Game

I spent a weekend with Claude Code and made a Rogue-like dungeon crawler game

  • claude
  • typescript
  • ai
Monday, March 16, 2026 | 8 minutes Read
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I Made an API

Some things in Power Automate work great. Some of them can be better done by a dedicated programming language like .NET. So, I made an API for myself

  • githubspeckit
  • dotnet
  • API
  • power-automate
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | 10 minutes Read
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The Value of Immutability in .NET

Immutability - the state or quality of being unchangeable, unalterable, or unable to be modified over time.

  • dotnet
  • immutability
Friday, March 6, 2026 | 9 minutes Read
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Getting Started with .NET Scheduling in Hangfire

Scheduling tasks in .NET is a lot easier these days. While scheduling libraries have been around a long time, the options available today are better than ever. We’re going to take a look at one of the available libraries: Hangfire

  • dotnet
  • scheduling
  • hangfire
Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 7 minutes Read
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CodeMash 2026

Got to attend CodeMash 2026 last week. Thought I’d share a few of my thoughts about CodeMash and conferences in general in this post-pandemic world.

  • CodeMash
  • user groups
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 | 7 minutes Read
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SQL Safe Habits

Messing around with a production database can be dangerous, but sometimes it’s necessary. A few safe habits can go a long way to protecting your data, your applications, and your company.

  • sql
  • safe habits
Wednesday, January 7, 2026 | 9 minutes Read
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2026 - Setting Goals For The Year

New year, new me, new goals, right?

  • goals
  • 2026
Thursday, January 1, 2026 | 5 minutes Read
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2025 - The Year in Review

Here’s my 2025 year in review

  • YearInReview
  • 2025
Tuesday, December 30, 2025 | 5 minutes Read
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