ASP.NET Core Caching with HTMX

Caching is an important technique to both improve user experience by loading content faster and to reduce the load on your server. In this article I'll show you how to use the built-in caching features of ASP.NET Core with HTMX to cache content on the client…

Adding Entity Framework for Blog Posts (Part 1, Setting up the Database)

Buckle in because this will be a long one! You can see parts 2 and 3 here and here. Introduction While I've been happy with my file based approach to blogging, as an excercise I decided to move to using Postgres for storing blog posts and comments. In this…

Using Docker Compose for Development Dependencies

When developing software traditionally we'd spin up a database, a message queue, a cache, and maybe a few other services. This can be a pain to manage, especially if you're working on multiple projects. Docker Compose is a tool that allows you to define and…

Adding Paging with HTMX and ASP.NET Core with TagHelper

Now that I have a bunch of blog posts the home page was getting rather length so I decided to add a paging mechanism for blog posts. This goes along with adding full caching for blog posts to make this a quick and efficient site. See the Blog Service source…

Using Umami for Local Analytics

One of the things that annoyed me about my current setup was having to use Google Analytics to get visitor data (what little there is of it ??). So I wanted to find something I could self-host that didn't pass data to Google or any other third party. I found…