Hi, I'm Scott Galloway.

Using Grafana and Prometheus to Monitor ASP.NET Core 8+ Applications

Monitoring is an essential part of maintaining the health and performance of your applications. I already have this site monitoring user visits using Umami and exceptions and errors using Seq but now I wanted to add performance monitoring to the mix. In this…

Simple Search Using HTMX & EF Core for ASP.NET Core

This is just a quick article as it builds on the others in the full text search series such as the typeahead dropdown and Postgres full text search. In this post, I will show you how to implement a simple search page using HTMX and EF Core in an ASP.NET Core…

A Smarter Search Dropdown with HTMX

In a previous post I showed you how to create a search dropdown using Alpine.js and HTMX then I showed how we could enable Cross-Site Request Forgery protection using the AntiforgeryRequestToken in ASP.NET Core with JavaScript using HTMX to implement a Donut…

HTMX (and a little Alpine.js) for a SPA-like experience in ASP.NET Core

In this site I use HTMX extensively, this is a super easy way to make your site feel more responsive and smoother without having to write a lot of JavaScript. NOTE: I'm not entirely happy with this yet, HTMX has some elements which make this tricky HTMX and…

Using Polly For Retries

Polly is a critical part of any .NET developer's toolkit. It is a library that allows you to define policies for handling exceptions and retries in your application. In this article, we will explore how to I use Polly to handle retries in this application.…

Using A Hybrid Approach To Blogging

I've blogged many times about how I use Markdown to create my blog posts; I really like this approach but it has one major drawback - it means I have to do a complete Docker build cycle to update a post. This was FINE while I was creating more features which I…

Simple 'Donut Hole' Caching with HTMX

Donut hole caching can be a useful technique where you want to cache certain elements of a page but not all. However it can be tricky to implement. In this post I will show you how to implement a simple donut hole caching technique using HTMX. The Problem One…

Umami.Net and Bot Detection

So I've posted a LOT in the past on using Umami for analytics in a self-hosted environment and even published the Umami.Net Nuget pacakge. However I was having an issue where I wanted to track users of my RSS feed; this post goes into why and how I solved it.…

Using Umami Data for Website Stats

One of my projects since starting this blog is an almost obsessive wish to track how many users look at my website. To do this I use Umami and have a BUNCH of posts around using and setting up Umami. I also have a Nuget package which makes it possible to track…

Unit Testing Umami.Net - Testing Umami Data Without Using Moq

In the previous part of this series where I tested Umami.Net tracking methods The Problem In the previous part I used Moq to give me a Mock<HttpMessageHandler> and return the handler used in UmamiClient, this is a common pattern when testing code that uses…