Shawn Wildermuth articles - 83 total
Is it Time to Panic? Suddenly, Everyone Seems to Need a Job
In my last blog post, I mentioned that I was pivoting to what I’m doing next. It feels a lot of...
Where Have I Been?
I went to my blog the other day and noticed my last story here was in February. I guess I got a...
Minimal API Discovery Tool
I’ve been posting and making videos about ideas I’ve had for discovering Minimal APIs instead of...
Digging Into Nullable Reference Types in C#
This topic has been on my TODO: list for quite a while now. As I work with clients, many of them are...
Using Vite's Plugin for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs)
I’ve worked with Progressive Web Application plug-ins with several SPA frameworks. Most of them are...
What Surprised Me About ECMAScript Modules
I’ve spent the last couple of months working on a new Pluralsight course about Modules in JavaScript....
Generating Sample Data with Bogus
Most of my job these days is creating tutorials or examples. This means I often start from scratch...
Vite-Powered SPAs in ASP.NET Core Projects
If you’ve heard me talk about Vite in the past (and so commonly mispronouce it), you know I am a fan....
More on .NET 7 user-jwts Tool
I recently released a Coding Short video and a blog post about the new JWT Tooling in .NET 7. It was...
Changes in JWT Bearer Token Setup in .NET 7
If you’ve taken my “Building an API with ASP.NET Core” course over at Pluralsight, one of the more...
C# 11 Strings in the Raw
With the release of C# 11, there is a new string in town. It might be getting crazy, but this new...
New Videos: Coding Short and a Rant
I can’t believe October is almost over! I forgot to post about a couple of videos I made this month....
Leaving the .NET Foundation Board - a Post Mortem
tl;dr; There is no Tea to be Found Here In case you didn't see the notice, my term as a board...
New Video: Coding Shorts - Static Site Generation with Eleventy
For some of my personal sites that aren’t the dynamic, I’ve moved them from ASP.NET to static site...
New Video: Coding Shorts - Generic Attributes in C# 11
I’ve been busy with a lot of small projects lately. Among these is to get up to speed with .NET 7 and...
TailwindCSS Tip: Arbitrary Values in Utility Classes
I’m currently redesigning this blog (coming soon) and I’ve been using TailwindCSS to handle most of...
New Video: Coding Shorts - Output Caching in ASP.NET Core 7
In continuing my discussion of middleware in my Coding Shorts videos, I have a new one that talks...
Twenty Plus Years of Blogging
I’ve been logging a long time. My wife and I were talking about it. We realized that it’s been over...
New Video: Coding Shorts - Response Caching in ASP.NET Core
After my recent video about How ASP.NET Core Middleware Works, I’m continuing to plow through some...
New Course: TailwindCSS Fundamentals
I’ve been diving deeper into the client-side development pool. One technology I’m really passionate...
Coding Shorts: ASP.NET Core Middleware Explained
As I continue to make my Coding Shorts videos, I decided to dedicate the next few episodes to ASP.NET...
Coding Shorts: Nested Routing in Vue.js
I’ve been working on a new Microservice example (on GitHub) and I’m writing the client in Vue.js. Due...
New Rant: On Microservice Architecture
I just got back from four conferences in Europe…and boy are my arms tired. One of the common themes...
Using Background Services in ASP.NET Core
I have a small link shortener that I run for myself. I built it mostly so I could update short links...
Coding Shorts: Speeding Up the Editor in Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2022 is frustrating me. Not only does debugging sometimes take way too long, but, for...
Simple Web Interactivity with Alpine.js
After working with lots of these little JavaScript libraries, sometimes I pine for something...
Multiple Directories for Static Files in ASP.NET Core
My recent video, SPAs in ASP.NET Core Another Attempt, elicited several interesting responses. But...
SPAs in ASP.NET Core - Another Attempt
After discussing this topic with a client, I realized that my old method of hosting SPAs in ASP.NET...
How to Access Query Strings in Minimal APIs
I love that this job allows me to learn new stuff every day. In this case, I was building a simple...
New Video: An Early Look at C# 11
I’ve started staying on top of early releases on .NET 7 and C# 11 already. In this new Coding Shorts...