The PRNG draw-tape: eager versus lazy
Munchausen makes one absolute promise: same seed, same data, forever, on any machine. A persona is "generated once," which raises a question that soun…
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EF Core Mapping for DDD — for Dummies
You built a nice domain model with rules and private properties — but EF Core wants simple classes with public get; set; . Don't worry. This guide sho…
C# Async/Await Made Simple
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Building a tiny Windows tray app with .NET 9 Native AOT and raw Win32
I built CreditMeter, a small Windows tray app that shows GitHub Copilot AI-credit usage like a taxi meter. Why I built it Agentic coding makes AI usag…
The AI Senior Dev Dilemma: Am I Coding or Just Prompting?
So, I’m still fairly new to this dev thing—five years full-time, now a senior dev. I was recently told to pick up Angular for a new project at work, b…
What is OpenIddict: the .NET framework developers choose for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
I've been writing a short series on OpenIddict basics while preparing IdentitySuite's v3.0 release — here's part 1. The .NET framework developers choo…
React displayName Without Strings: A C#-Inspired TypeScript Proxy Trick
It started with a very small problem. In our React component library, we wanted every component to have a nice displayName . So we did the obvious thi…
Custom Comparers Inside Collection Expressions: The Tiny C# Feature That Makes Sets Feel Complete
There is a specific kind of code that feels small but annoying every time you write it. Not broken. Not complicated. Just… slightly clunky. For me, on…
Stop writing a test-data builder for every class in .NET
If you've ever written test data by hand, you know the ritual: a PersonBuilder , an OrderBuilder , an AddressBuilder … one hand-written builder per cl…
Pre-allocate Like a Pro
I’ve been playing with C# 15 quite a bit this week, and after yesterday’s post about the new with() syntax I started thinking about something I’ve alw…
Unity Foundational Architecture: Smart Bootstrapping
Table of Contents: Introduction Understanding the Unity Initialization Lifecycle The RuntimeInitializeOnLoadMethod Attribute (And Its Limitations) The…
HTML to PDF in C#: The Complete Guide
This is a complete, hands-on guide to converting HTML to PDF in C# with the SelectPdf library for .NET . It works up from a three-line conversion to a…
10 Common Unity Networking Issues (and How to Fix Them)
Multiplayer bugs in Unity rarely look like networking bugs. They look like "the game froze," "the player teleported," or "it worked in the Editor and …
ASP.NET Core: Building High-Performance Web Applications and APIs
ASP.NET Core: Building High-Performance Web Applications and APIs A practical guide to ASP.NET Core — the cross-platform framework for building REST A…
Nobody Told Me Motors Needed Software Too
Life transition from margin-left : 3px to x-axis move : 3mm Welcome to Karthi's Blah Blah. I'm going to share my experience of how a web developer who…
Modern C# Features: A Deep Dive into Records, Pattern Matching, Async, and Performance
Modern C# Features: A Deep Dive into Records, Pattern Matching, Async, and Performance A practical guide to the C# language features that have reshape…
Testing AI Agents in .NET with skUnit: Step-by-Step
One of the biggest challenges when building AI agents isn't writing the agent, it's testing it. Traditional unit tests work great for deterministic co…
Running Local AI Models in .NET with Ollama (Step-by-Step Guide)
Build AI-powered ASP.NET Core applications without relying entirely on cloud providers. Introduction If you've been experimenting with AI recently, yo…
LINQ and ZLinq in the Unity 6 Era: Avoiding GC Allocations in Large-Scale Projects
Introduction In large-scale Unity development, GC Alloc can quietly become a real problem. At first, nothing looks wrong. But as the project grows and…
What I Learned Reading Unity's BuildReport After Building 16 APKs
Build Analyzer series, article 2. In the previous article , I built 16 Android APKs while changing one variable at a time. After that, I had the APK n…
Stop your AI assistant from hallucinating PDF APIs: SelectPdf AI Tools
AI coding assistants are great at .NET boilerplate, but ask one to generate PDF code and it will happily invent a method that doesn't exist, or reach …
Scheduled and delayed messages:Routing with TTL and dead-letter exchange in RabbitMQ
The challenge of scheduling events without plugins Often, we need to delay message delivery in our messaging architectures: for example, sending a rem…
Two resolvers, four entry points
Part 2: Two resolvers, four entry points In part 1 we established the shape of the problem: handlers want IIdentity and IPrincipal handed to them as p…
How does your domain know your user?
Almost every business application needs to answer a question that sounds simple: who is the current user? But "user" isn't one thing. Authorization ne…
Back to Simplicity: Why We Built CALM, a Lock-Free Single-Thread Messaging Library for .NET
Hello everyone! For many years, I have been developing equipment control software and long-term support products using .NET/C#. Based on the experienc…
Creating a Small Helper Class to Safely Handle CancellationTokenSource Cancel and Dispose
Introduction When writing async code in Unity, you often end up working with CancellationToken for loading, networking, Addressables, screen transitio…
7 C# Techniques Pros Use Without Thinking
Here are the 7 C# techniques pros use on autopilot in 2026. 1. Pattern Matching So Hard I Forgot How to Write If-Else I haven’t written a classic if (…
MongoDB-backed ASP.NET Core Identity, without the EF Core detour
If you're already running MongoDB and you reach for ASP.NET Core Identity, the official story points you at Entity Framework Core. That's a fine answe…
Singleton, Scoped, and Transient: What They Actually Mean for Your DbContext
Anyone who has worked with dependency injection in .NET, might have registered something like this: builder . Services . AddDbContext < AppDbContex…
Convert EPUB to Word Documents in C# .NET – EPUB to DOCX via REST API
Converting EPUB files to editable Word documents is a common need when teams want to repurpose e‑book content for collaboration, review, or further pu…