This is a work in progress site where I share my thoughts, ideas, and projects. I'm always building SOMETHING so decided too share both how I build these somethings and what I build.
Note this site is currently being developed you can see the code here. Bits will be broken or missing, but that's the fun of it. If you have any comments / suggestions / feedback please let me know on Mastodon
I'm a consulting web developer, specializing in .NET Core, remote working, full-stack (ANY JavaScript framework), cloud, search technologies, running teams, bootstrapping startups etc..etc...
I'm a former Microsoft ASP.NET Program manager & have worked for numerous fortune 500, and a multitude of startups and have been building web applications for over 30 years.
If you think I can help you with your project on a contract, full time or consultancy basis (days here and there), please get in touch.
Small Posts FTW
Small but potentially useful solution to a problem I was having. Namely, how to generate a GUID from a string input where the Guid is always valid but unique for any given input...
RSS (and Atom) is still the only widely adopted format for syndicating content. It's a simple XML format that can be consumed by a wide range of feed readers. In this post, I'll show you how to add an...
##Introduction
In my previous post I detailed how to send emails using FluentEmail and the SMTP Client. However one issue with this is the delay in sending emails. SMTP servers tend to be slow and can...
This is a fairly simple article but will cover some of the odness of using FluentEmail in ASP.NET Core to send HTML emails I haven't seen elsewhere.
The Problem
Sending HTML mails is itself kinda...
This just popped up on Facebook, an old image of me in my office at Microsoft.
Office at Microsoft
A long long time ago in a country far, far away I was a lowly PMII at Microsoft. I was working on the...
NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS
I've been looking for a simple comment system for my blog that uses Markdown. I couldn't find one that I liked, so I decided to write my own. This is a simple comment system...
In this app I wanted to add a simpple mechanism of allowing login to add comments (and some admin tasks) to the app. I wanted to use Google Auth for this purpose. I did not want to use the ASP.NET...
EasyNMT is a locally installable service that provides a simple interface to a number of machine translation services. In this tutorial, we will use EasyNMT to automatically translate a Markdown file...
Mermaid is a simple diagramming format that takes text-based input and generates diagrams in SVG format. It is a great tool for creating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, Gantt charts, and more. In this...
Markdown is a lightweight markup language that you can use to add formatting elements to plaintext text documents. Created by John Gruber in 2004, Markdown is now one of the world’s most popular...
