Digging Into Blazor - First Impressions
I've been hearing a lot of good things about Blazor for a while now and as a .NET developer I figured it was time for me to see what the fuss was about.
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Developing with Dev Tools Open
One thing I've started to do when I'm actively developing a website or application is keep the dev tools open docked to the side. I do this for two reasons.
Building a Social Image Generator Console Application
For a while now I've been adding an image for when my posts get shared on Twitter and the like. It's been a manual process where I open up Photoshop and manually update the text. I wanted to change that to make it faster for me to create, so I wrote up a quick .NET console app to go about doing that and will share with you how to build your own.
Reading Log - October 28 (#3)
Too much Musk this week.
Reading List: September 3 - 23
Life's been busy lately and I didn't get around to posting my weekly reading the last 2 weeks. I'ms starting back up with a slightly new format. I'm going to have a few links that I go into more depth with my thoughts on and then follow it up with the normal link list.
The Quirks of JavaScript
Let me preface this by saying that I definitively enjoy programming with JavaScript. It does have its quirks though!
Updating My Likes Page with Feedbin
I've been tweaking my site here and there and the one thing I recently did was change how I populate my 'likes' page. Previously I had been doing it manually, but recently after having listened to the founder of Feedbin on the Changelog Podcast, I decided to try something different. I wanted to use a nice feature Feedbin has to make the page better.
Chats with Kent
I've been finally catching up on my (all-too-massive) podcast backlog and figured I'd place a shout-out to the podcast Chats with Kent.
Reading List: July 9 - July 15
This week we look at a lot of web dev articles as well as some amazing photos from the JWST.
Mocking React Router and useParams
One of the things I needed to do recently was write unit tests for one of the pages of Digital Family Cookbook where I pull a value from a query parameter in the URL. I ended up having some trouble with it so I figured I'd share what I did to get it working.