Part 8: Persistence and State - EF Core, Migrations, and Reliability
In the last part, we looked at how expressions make your workflows dynamic. Today, we are discussing the backbone of any production-ready system: Pers…
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Your .NET RAG stack hides a Python sidecar. I built the engine that removes it.
TL;DR — Every .NET RAG project quietly ships a Python sidecar to do one job: chunk documents. I got rid of mine. DocNest .NET is an idiomatic C# / .NE…
Dev Log: deleting code and breaking the build on purpose
Day one of building Munchausen v1.0 started with deleting the existing implementation and deliberately breaking its replacement. Munchausen is a mock-…
Munchausen: The forgotten side project from 9 years ago
9 years ago ... I started this project 9 years ago, back in 2017. Mainly because I wanted to learn a few things. Plenty of tools already existed at th…
How to Use FFmpeg with C# (No Installation Required)
Originally published at ffmpeg-micro.com Most C# video processing guides start the same way: download an FFmpeg binary, add it to your PATH, then call…
Starving the Garbage Collector: A Pragmatic Guide to Zero-Allocation C#
Over the last few weeks, I’ve open-sourced a suite of high-performance, zero-dependency C# engines. This includes a native DataFrame library ( Glacier…
A Semantic Approach to WPF and MVVM with Clprolf framework
Introduction WPF and the MVVM (Model-View-ViewModel) pattern are powerful tools for desktop development. However, as applications grow, the technical …
C# Compiler Lowering Explained: What Happens at Build Time - Part 1 of the "The Anatomy of Compiler Lowering" series
C# Compiler Lowering Explained: What Happens at Build Time (Part 1) itplamen itplamen itplamen Follow Jun 5 C# Compiler Lowering Explained: What Happe…
Kafka в проде: как встроенное сжатие спасло кластер, когда retention не успевал чистить диск
Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Павел, я ведущий разработчик. В этой статье расскажу про Kafka, consumer groups, lag, offset commit и встроенное сжатие сообщ…
I built a native C# Grep engine that's holding it's own with ripgrep (with zero allocations)
Let’s be honest: the golden rule of modern software engineering is "never rewrite grep." Tools like ripgrep are written in native Rust, compiled strai…
Why Squirix uses a strict client/server architecture for a .NET distributed cache
Squirix 0.1.0 is an early preview of a .NET distributed cache. A typed client SDK talks to a remote server over gRPC; the server owns state, routing, …
After 4 months solo: shipping a Windows tray AI hotkey on .NET 8 + WPF (and the Win32 paste-back rabbit hole)
I spent 4 months of nights and weekends building CapyBro — a Windows tray app that runs AI on any selected text via a global hotkey. Native .NET 8 + W…
5 Surprises Migrating .NET Framework to .NET 9 with Claude Opus
5 Surprises Migrating .NET Framework to .NET 9 with Claude Opus My workflow before this little experiment was pretty standard for a .NET Framework to …
Learn ASP.NET from Scratch
If you read my last post , you read all of the things that I'd like to learn this year, starting with ASP.NET Core. I've spent the past week gathering…
Winber game maker
I'm building a Vulkan game engine in C# — Meet Winber Engine Hey Dev.to community! 👋 I've been working on something I'm really proud of — a game engin…
pypdf vs PdfPig: Text Extraction at Scale
Overview PDF text extraction is a common pre-processing step in data pipelines — ingesting research papers, legal documents, or reports before embeddi…
Building software in C#: part 2 - code architecture
In my previous post, I described how historical trends shaped our (or at least my) perception of software architecture. However, with experience and s…
Building software in C#: part 1 - history.
3-Layer Architecture When I started programming in C# back in 2010 in Prague (Czech Republic), the dominant trend was the 3-layer monolithic architect…
An Official Claude SDK for .NET? Yes, Really.
If you've been building with Claude in .NET, you've probably leaned on one of the lovely community SDKs Anthropic.SDK by tghamm, or tryAGI.Anthropic b…
Run OpenAI Codex CLI on Claude, Gemini, or Llama — in 50 lines of C#
OpenAI's Codex CLI ships with a great editor-agent UX: shell tool, apply_patch , plan tracking, the lot. The catch — as of February 2026 it only speak…
How to use the Specification Pattern to Clean Up Query Logic in C#, .NET
The Problem I was building a content management platform with a .NET 9 backend. The platform manages videos, articles, lyrics, and a bunch of lookup t…
Log Aggregation in .NET 8: Seq vs ELK vs Loki
I have seen the same setup at more companies than I can count: every service writing logs to stdout, a few rotating files scattered across VMs, maybe …
Clean Architecture in .NET Explained (The Dependency Rule)
If you've ever upgraded EF Core and had to touch 300 files, or tried to unit-test a single business rule and realized you needed a running database fi…
Introducing LogicGrid — Multi-Agent AI Orchestration for .NET
If you've spent any time building with LLMs, you've probably hit the wall: a single prompt only gets you so far. Stuff too much into one prompt and th…
C# Networking Deep Dive with io_uring part 5 - Threadpool Rant
Part 5 was going to be about integrating on Kestrel, instead this is going to be a rant about io_uring and threadpool. This story doesn't begin with i…
This week in Cursor + .NET — 3 rules + 4 essays (week ending May 22, 2026)
Every weekday a single, opinionated rule for senior C#/.NET engineers using Cursor. Here's the full week in one read — canonical posts live on the Age…
The Scoped Singleton DI Bug Your AI Just Suggested
The Scoped→Singleton DI bug your AI just suggested (and how to catch it) Of all the bugs that ship to production silently, the captured-dependency lif…
I Replaced ChatGPT With Gemma 4 In My Product. It Felt Like The Same Radio Show With A Different Host.
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 Most “read later” links quietly die in browser tabs. At some point I realized I was…
An EF Core alternative for .NET apps with complex object graphs — full LINQ, no migrations, no DbContext
Today I'd like to slow down a bit and talk about redb.Core — the data engine at the heart of the RedBase ecosystem. The other pieces ( redb.Route for …
Am I the only .NET dev who keeps building workflow engines on top of Hangfire?
I’ve been building .NET apps for about seven years, and I keep running into the same problem. For background jobs, my default answer has usually been …