A Super Simple Comment System with Markdown

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 that uses Markdown for formatting. The second part of this will…

Adding Google Auth without ASP.NET Identity Database

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 Identity database for this purpose. I wanted to keep the app as…

Automatically Translating Markdown Files with EasyNMT

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 from English to multiple languages. You can find all the…

Adding mermaid.js with htmx

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 tutorial, we will explore how to use Mermaid with htmx to…

Using Markdown for Blogging

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 markup languages. On this site I use a super simple approach to…