Spicy C# projects
When recently we published the whole C# 9 Professional course, I had a moment to pause and to reflect on all the new and shiny libraries and tools that were...
Betting for the Future
The future is unknown! This is terra incognita! You cannot foresee things! and a few other statements are often used when describing one’s attempts to place some bets for the...
Covid Shrapnels
Covid19 has changed the world. Recently I spent some time reflecting on the pandemic situation and how it impacted our lives in so many different areas. And I don’t mean...
Terrible terrible exception with .NET
Sometimes things are not right. Sometimes exceptions seem to be occurring more often than usual. In this post I cover exceptions that can happen when working with .NET apps. Instead...
On learning totally new things
Learning totally new things. How difficult and interesting it is! Recently I had a great pleasure learning a lot about a new topic, STARKs. It was somewhat connected to my...
Open Source projects that improved my skills
Recently I had an interesting conversation about Open Source Software. I’m far from waving any flag related to this approach. I treat OSS as a tool that can be used...
Blogs that I read
Reading books changes people. At the same time we live in times where articles, blog posts, essays are a popular form of sharing knowledge. They deliver as much value as...
Performance investigations
Imagine a crime scene that contains a lot of clues but no dead body. Actually, the body may be alive but not willing to answer your questions unless you’re really...
My mental model of Span, Memory and ReadOnlySequence in .NET
Saying that I disagree with the documentation of the new memory abstractions in .NET would be an overstatement. After working a bit with Span, Memory, ReadOnlySequence and IBufferWriter I model...
Practices for your one-man-army projects
There are times where you have a team that is helpful and willing to review your PRs, discuss all the internals of a project and simply support you in making...