.NET Microsoft Is SECRETLY Changing Your Code in .NET 8 (via Nick Chapsas) How Are .NET APIs So Much Faster than Everything Else? (via Nick Chapsas) Most of this video describes Martin Fowler’s (from Microsoft) response to a post in…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 47
.NET What Is .NET Aspire? The Insane Future of .NET! (via Nick Chapsas) How to Deploy .NET 8’s New .NET Aspire Stack (via Nick Chapsas) Aspire is agnostic of deployment; it creates a manifest.json that describes what’s happening in your…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 46
.NET Measuring Code Performance The Right Way | Code Cop #008 (via Nick Chapsas) Should You Use The Async Suffix in C#? (via Nick Chapsas) AI/ML Improve Your Company’s Use of AI with a Structured Approach to Prompts (via HBR)…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 45
.NET The Missing Piece of Your .NET Logs (via Nick Chapsas) The Coolest Way to Await Multiple Tasks in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) Every New Feature Added in C# 12 (via Nick Chapsas) Game Theory The deadly trap that could…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 44
.NET The Easiest Way to Create PDFs in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) “Your Code Has a SQL Injection!” | Code Cop #007 (via Nick Chapsas) AI AI is dangerous, but not for the reasons you think (via TED) Many critics…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 43
.NET “Stop Using if else if else In Your Code!” | Code Cop #005 (via Nick Chapsas) “Stop Using Structured Logging in .NET!” | Code Cop #006 (via Nick Chapsas) Communication A simple way to inspire your team (via TED)…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 42
.NET The Fastest Way to Run Your Tests in .NET (via Nick Chapsas) “Remove Braces From Your Code Now!” | Code Cop #004 (via Nick Chapsas) Braces, although technically not required, visually define a scope. This can happen in single-line…
Deep Rock Galactic Spitball Infectors
A friend of mine has the Deep Rock Galactic board game that comes with multiple figures that can be painted. Here’s a gallery with ~71 pictures. This project took me 9 hours to complete. Things I learned:
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 41
.NET “Don’t Use Fields in C#! Use Properties Instead” | Code Cop #003 (via Nick Chapsas) Nick takes the list of reasons someone prefers private properties instead of fields to explain how those benefits are either incorrect. He goes over…
Professional Development – 2023 – Week 40
.NET Why Do Older .NET Developers Hate Modern .NET? (via Nick Chapsas) Mostly misconceptions, and some branding missteps by Microsoft (e.g., .NET Framework vs. .NET Core — it still has “.NET” in the title). The Common Entity Framework Mistake You…