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Of late, I’ve been using .NET 8 and Blazor at both work and on my league management side project. One thing that I often need to do is pass data between components. Passing data from a parent component to a child component isn’t terribly difficult with parameters. Passing data from a child to a parent isn’t quite as straightforward.

February wasn't a bad month. It did seem to go by a little quickly though.

I recently read an article by Steve Dunn, Prefer test-doubles over mocking frameworks and it got me reconsidering some of my unit testing strategies.

Last week, I decided to try something new and make a move to keep my cell phone out of the bedroom.

The side project idea that has gained the most traction with me is the league management web application. I've spent the better part of weekend and then Monday & Wednesday getting the Blazor web app communicating with the Web API I'm also building for it.

One of the things I enjoy about working from home, is the ability to exercise a bit over lunch. On nicer days, I'll take a walk or go for a run.

This past week I started a new React project at work and was dealing with a weird issue with one of my components. It turns out the issue was caused by Strict Mode on React.

Ever finish a video game and be sad that it's over? Ever finish a video game and be sad there's no more story?

Mozilla just recently announced more layoffs. They're apparently scaling back on mozilla.social, its VPN and other services to focus on bringing trustworthy AI into Firefox. I really wish I knew what Mozilla was thinking.

There’s been one good thing that’s come out of the whole X/Twitter debacle. Personal sites and blogs have seen a renaissance and are coming a bit more to the forefront. I love seeing it.

I’ve been reading Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET by Adam Tibi and I think it’s tilted me towards giving it a serious college try.

I know I’m a little late to the game, but I recently learned how to use the new HTML <dialog> element.