When Agentic Coding Breaks Code Review A couple of very familiar phenomena. CORS: What is it protecting? Explaining that CORS is a browser security measure, in case you didn’t already know that....

Functional Programming in C# 15: Union Types and the ApiResult Monad A union type is a type that holds exactly one of several named cases at a time. Think of a monad as a smart wrapper around...

Solving the Distributed Cache Invalidation Problem with Redis and HybridCache How to use Redis pub/sub to invalidate the cache across multiple instances of an application using HybridCache. They ...

Web Components Are the Comeback Nobody Saw Coming When Web Components were first introduced, browser support was a bit spotty, and developers were keen to use the latest framework. Now, developers...

No More Mocking ILogger Instead of mocking ILogger use the FakeLogger class from the Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.Testing package. It doesn’t help us, sadly, because we use Serilog. GitHub MC...

Azure Dev Summit Workshop TL;DR: Summary The last day of Azure Dev Summit was a workshop: Enhance your Application System with .NET Aspire. Workshop Resources The workshop provided several us...

Azure Dev Summit The first ever Azure Dev Summit. 13-15 October 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. TL;DR: Summary Day 1 Keynote: Reimagining the software development lifecycle with agentic AI The keyno...

Big O Big O notation describes the relationship between a function’s input and its wall-clock time. From slowest to fastest: O(1), constant time (best!) O(log n), logarithmic time O(n), lin...

Expert Generalists Nice description of someone who is an export, but without being restricted to a specific area. For example, someone who can join a Python project as an export, but without being...

Renovate - Plan A Plan Continuing from the previous post - try Renovate on a few repos: nfield-odinparser-interfaces nfield-odinparser nfield-interviewengine-interfaces nfield-interviewe...