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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Shaking off the WCF rust in 2025

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Okay, was looking back through WCF earlier this week for a prospective client, and figured I'd leave some notes. Here's the stock c...
Monday, June 16, 2025

VB.NET, HttpClient, Newtonsoft, and Async

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Looking into updating a slew of VB.NET API to C# for a client, and figured I should brush off my VB.NET before getting too serious. And I ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Minimal Example to Read CheckoutSession Info from Stripe Payment Links with .NET

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Note to self: It's pretty easy to get a Stripe CheckoutSession in .NET. I talked about writing a Chrome extension and integrating payme...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Declarative vs. Imperative Programing: A Mnemonic

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Sometimes, I surprise myself : @Cthutu I wish " It's like the difference of [declaring] an address vs   [commanding ] directions....
Monday, May 19, 2025

Forced Reset Triggers

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I'd missed the whole Forced Reset Trigger debate over the last year or so, but caught an article about it in The Post Sunday and figure...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Cybersecurity: Always a house of cards

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From Hacker News' Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials : Cybersecurity researchers have...
Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Beautiful html coverage reports in C# with Cobertura

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Coverage reports in C# with Cobertura In the last contract I completed, we were building WebAPI microservices in C#, and part of our build ...
Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Apple's payment changes are a bigger deal than I thought

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From "Amazon now has a ‘Get book’ button in its iOS Kindle app" on theverge.com : Apple has appealed the decision, but is also c...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Carriers can slam-install apps on your Android phone?!!

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If you needed an excuse to get on your Apple high horse, I got a new one yesterday. My super old Android phone -- used essentially only whe...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

Does your cat know regex?

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Okay, hopefully you're not letting your cat do this, but that's funny . Any time I use regex, I worry that I shouldn't. It'...