I like being efficient with my bits and bytes. I bought into the webp image format train pretty early, adopting it when I made this blog.
Recently I made a video longer than 2 seconds, so I started looking properly into codecs like VP9 and AV1.
Lets take a look into some video and image codecs and how the new shiny ones can be used.

Nancy was deprecated earlier this year, so I decided to do a full upgrade of a codebase from .NET 4.7 to dotnetcore 3.1.
It’s been a loooong journey…Nancy and Castle have been interesting to migrate away from.

AV1 on FFMpeg isn’t so bad now!

We’re moving a client to Azure from on premises and there were some performance hurdles.
They weren’t unexpected, and nearly all of them were database related.

.NET 5 was released recently, with boatloads of goodies.
Blazor got some attention in this release, and I had some free time to play with it.
There’s good news and bad news…

Semi-recently, we moved a client from On Premises to Azure with the promise that it’d be better.
While generally true, lately we’ve been getting reports of performance issues…

Previously, I did some performance investigations in Azure. The cause remains elusive, so I’ve started looking into caching, most interestingly caching Mediatr Query results.

System.Text.Json was released with dotnetcore 3 in 2019, and has been improved in NET 5.
After recently upgrading this project to dotnetcore 5 (which was much easier than the linked upgrade to dotnetcore 3…), I was curious to see what the migration path looked like for a real project.

Some Blender tips and tricks that I’ve built up over my short time, so saving them here so I don’t forget them :D
This will keep being updated as I think of them.

I work in Managed Services, and we end up with a lot of projects on different versions of things (node, packages, dotnet, etc)
So I want to get a full stack project with good F5 debugging experience and easy onboarding that can run without those dependencies!
I succeeded! Kinda…