May 2026
Slowing down. Being present. Refactoring.
Breaking Changes
Thoughts on software, learning, and building things
April 2026
slowing down, improving craft, accomplishing more
March 2026
endings, database migrations, golfing
Thoughts After a Year of Software Development
Lessons and musings after my first year in development
How to Build an API with Controllers
A basic walkthrough of the Controller-Based API pattern in .NET
Build a Database Connection Framework In 133 Lines Of Code
Build a Database Connection Framework In 133 Lines Of Code
The Perfect Programming Environment
Creating my first dotfiles repository
Quidditch - Powered By PostgreSQL and ASP.NET
Use Entity Framework to connect Postgres to your ASP.NET API.
Intro to .NET APIs for a JavaScript Developer
An intro to Minimal APIs
Learn Application Configuration in ASP.NET
Creating a configurable music player.
Interviewers Will Ask You About This: Dependency Injection Made Simple
The simple guide to getting started with DI.
Cure Depression with Software Development
via Liam Galvin
Do The Work That Needs Done
via BrainBun
Can we add AI to that?
via Lawrence Jones
Anatomy of an ASP.NET MVC Template
What are these folders and files?
Tips for Junior Devs
via qntm
Start Automating Easy Tasks
via Alex Tiniuc
This engineer uses LLMs
via Sean Goedecke
Supercharge Your Productivity with the .NET CLI
Speed up your .NET development
Learn ASP.NET from Scratch
A learning roadmap for ASP.NET Core
What I'd Like to Learn in 2025
A list of topics I may or may not learn.
Self-Taught is Still Possible In 2025
AI won't get rid of us, keep going.
Deploying a Full-Stack PERN App to AWS EC2
A full walkthrough for manual deployment.
Why 'Screw Optimization' Is My New Mantra
Done is better than perfect.
How I Started My Coding Journey
Humble beginnings.