A Newsletter Subscription Service Pt. 1 - Requirements and Subscription Page

While perusing other people's blogs I noticed a lot of them have a subscription service which allows users to sign up to have an email sent to them weekly with the posts from that blog. I decided to implement my own version of this and share how I did it.…

Querying Postgres Data in Grafana

In a previous post I detailed how I added Grafana to my docker-compose to provide insights into performance for this site. As I have Umami on here AND self host the database for that in this post I'l cover how I added new panels to view the data in Grafana.…

Freelancing and disappointment

IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A DEVELOPER / LEADER PLEASE CONTACT ME I've been a freelance developer for more than a decade now (since I left Microsoft really). For the most part it's been perfect for me. I love to work remotely; I'm deaf so offices aren't a great…

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…