Dates are an utter nightmare and YYYY is worse than I thought
Every year we get told that 'YYYY' in date formats is bad. But why? And just how bad is it? (Spoiler: very.)
Development
The Notepad Logger: Window Messaging
In this post, I go deeper into the world's strangest logging implementation, and make it work with Notepad++ and Notepad2.
Building a custom Notepad logger for ASP.NET Core
In this post, I take possibly the world's strangest logging implementation, and rewrite it for .NET Core.
Accessing COM ports from a web page?!?!!
Did you know that you can control serial COM ports from a web page? Me neither. Here's what I've learned about it.
ZIP64 - Go Big Or Go Home
How does a ZIP file work? And how do you make really, really, _really_ big ones? Read this post to find out.
Pausing Packer's PowerShell Processes
When using Packer to build virtual machines, sometimes I just want to pause it and poke around. Here's how I achieve that.
Using and Extending GitHub Actions
I got into the GitHub Actions beta! Here's what I've learned so far.
Automatically generating assembly binding redirects
If you're sick of System.IO.FileLoadExceptions, you've come to the right place!
Setting a Default InputFormatter in ASP.NET Core
In ASP.NET Core, you can write custom formatters to serialize or deserialize objects from/into request bodies. But how do you pick one without a Content-Type?
The Changing World of .NET
.NET today is no longer a walled-off Microsoft-only environment. This post explores how it has evolved and how you can evolve your software with it.
HTTP/2 Header Casing
Do you think all HTTP headers are Train-Cased-Like-This? If so, you're in for a surprise.
Vehicular UIs can be dangerously bad
The more "smart" features added to a car, the more distracting and dangerous it can be.
Finding your Operating System version programmatically
Here's how to do it on Linux, macOS and Windows. No surprises, Windows is by far the most complex.
Red-Green Trees
How do you create an immutable tree structure? The Roslyn compiler developers figured it out, and in this post I break down what they did.
Stack traces from async methods in .NET
It can be hard to make sense of the increasing complexity found in .NET stack traces. Once you strip out the noise, it becomes understandable.
Debugging CoreFX on macOS
How do you debug the .NET Core base class libraries on a Mac? Like this.
Using HTTP/2 in .NET client applications
The good news is that you can now make HTTP/2 requests from Windows. The bad news is that it needs a blog post to explain it.
Waiting for a Process with Timeout in .NET
There's a handful of race conditions you can hit when running child processes. Here is how to avoid them.
Redirecting process output in .NET
Did you know that redirecting input streams can cause a deadlock? Well, now you do.
Core Graphics on iOS Draws Circles Backwards
I'm pretty sure this is a bug, I can't make any sense of it at all otherwise.