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My Blog of Various Ramblings

I write about random stuff - mostly programming, but still fairly random. Somedays it might be about extracting tiny performance gains, others will be about yet another tool I built.

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Proxying Rainbow Six LAN for WAN with .NET

Jan 29, 2023

A simple journey of learning, debugging and building my way to play an old game with a friend.

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Ref-structs are technically [Obsolete]

Dec 19, 2022

How one very useful C# feature has a hidden quirk that tripped up my code coverage reports.

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The pain points of C# source generators: February 2022 Update

Feb 21, 2022

Ten months on from my original post, a quick update on things.

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Fixing my BF1942 woes with Win32 APIs

Jan 21, 2022

Fullscreen didn't work and window mode was bugged. Thought I'd try programming a solution - mix things up a little.

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Fun with Flags, Enums and Bit Shifting

Dec 2, 2021

Vexillology and bit shifting are not talked about together - until now.

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My Ideal Desktop Experience via a Remote Machine

Oct 31, 2021

Planning my desktop experience to run on a remote server.

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The pain points of C# source generators

Apr 7, 2021

With great power can come great pain points...

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A Better Mousetrap

Sep 15, 2020

My journey to launch a product and take the next steps in my career

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Multilayer Caching in .NET

Jun 7, 2020

Optimise your caching strategy through layered caching.

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Levenshtein Distance (Part 3: Optimize Everything!)

Mar 4, 2020

Less Allocations & Smarter Processing

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Levenshtein Distance with SIMD

Mar 4, 2020

Using CPU-specific instructions for even more performance

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Levenshtein Distance (Part 2: Gotta Go Fast)

Feb 13, 2020

Faster Calculations & Less Memory Usage

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Levenshtein Distance (Part 1: What is it?)

Feb 7, 2020

How similar are two strings?

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What is Microdata and why should I care?

Jan 29, 2020

Schema-ify the Web

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How to get an idea for a product?

Jul 19, 2019

So you want to launch a product? First you'll need an idea.

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Using MiniProfiler with MongoDB

Jun 8, 2019

MongoFramework helps connect MiniProfiler and MongoDB together

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Bad design is everywhere

Apr 23, 2019

From code, to user interfaces and even doors, bad design is everywhere.

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Building a Polite Web Crawler

Apr 13, 2019

The culmination of multiple of my libraries

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Halt and Hangfire

Apr 9, 2019

Scheduling background and recurring jobs with Hangfire

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The troubles of dealing with Time Zones

Apr 3, 2019

Don't DIY your own Time Zone library

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The anatomy of a critical vulnerability

Mar 6, 2019

From discovery to disclosure

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I left my job today after 7 years

Feb 14, 2019

Sometimes you need to risk it to get the biscuit...

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Sitemaps 101

Jan 27, 2019

Sitemaps are a little more complex than you might think...

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No Robots Allowed

Jan 7, 2019

Guiding web crawlers with a simple text file

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Shuffle Fail: Fixing my car stereo with code!

Dec 28, 2018

I just wanted to shuffle play my music

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Onion Coding: Programming in Layers

Dec 17, 2018

Ogres have layers. Onions have layers. Coding has layers.

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Mongo what now?

Aug 25, 2018

MongoFramework - my side project's side project

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