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ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET Core Background Jobs with RabbitMQ: Reliable Patterns for HTTP Offloading How to decouple slow or fragile work from HTTP requests in ASP.NET Core using RabbitMQ, BackgroundService, idempotency, outbox pattern, retry policies, and graceful shutdown

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When an HTTP endpoint needs to trigger slow, expensive, or fragile operations, keeping that work inside the request is rarely the best choice: perceived latency goes up, failures become much …

ASP.NET Core Background Jobs with RabbitMQ: Reliable Patterns for HTTP Offloading How to decouple slow or fragile work from HTTP requests in ASP.NET Core using RabbitMQ, BackgroundService, idempotency, outbox pattern, retry policies, and graceful shutdown Read More
AI & Machine Learning / Coding

Our AI Policy for Software: why we don’t believe in Vibe Coding From code writing to review, including security, documentation, and maintenance: our personal guidelines on how to integrate AI without delegating project responsibility to it

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In recent months, generative AI applied to software development has been discussed extensively. Too often, however, the debate has become almost caricatured: on one side, those who present it as …

Our AI Policy for Software: why we don’t believe in Vibe Coding From code writing to review, including security, documentation, and maintenance: our personal guidelines on how to integrate AI without delegating project responsibility to it Read More
Agile / Business innovation / Business processes / Coding / Process management

“We’ll fix it later” is the most expensive lie in software development Technical debt is not an accident along the way: it is a choice that turns today’s speed into tomorrow’s slowness, costs, and rewrites

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“We’ll fix it later.” “We don’t have time right now.” “As soon as possible, we’ll redo it properly.” In the software world, these phrases are all too familiar. At first …

“We’ll fix it later” is the most expensive lie in software development Technical debt is not an accident along the way: it is a choice that turns today’s speed into tomorrow’s slowness, costs, and rewrites Read More
AI & Machine Learning / Privacy & Compliance

Artificial Intelligence and LLM Training: Progress or Appropriation? AI model training is outpacing regulation, turning innovation into the systematic exploitation of others’ value

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In the debate surrounding the training of generative AI, an argument is increasingly being put forward that claims to settle once and for all the issue of intellectual property in …

Artificial Intelligence and LLM Training: Progress or Appropriation? AI model training is outpacing regulation, turning innovation into the systematic exploitation of others’ value Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET Core Hardening Guide: Upload Security, Data Protection, CSRF, and HSTS How to reduce the attack surface of an ASP.NET Core web app by tightening uploads, cookies, CSRF defenses, security headers, key handling, and abuse protection

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When it comes to security in ASP.NET Core, the hard part is not remembering to enable HTTPS or configure Security Headers, which we have already covered extensively in the past. …

ASP.NET Core Hardening Guide: Upload Security, Data Protection, CSRF, and HSTS How to reduce the attack surface of an ASP.NET Core web app by tightening uploads, cookies, CSRF defenses, security headers, key handling, and abuse protection Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Cloud / Coding / Linux / Operating Systems / Servers & Services / Web

Deploying .NET Applications with GitHub Actions and GHCR: An End-to-End Guide A practical guide to publishing and deploying .NET, Node.js, or any containerized workload using GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry, Docker Compose, and a traditional Linux server

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Not every application needs Kubernetes, Helm, an ingress controller, a secret operator, and the operational overhead that comes with them. In many cases, especially for small teams, internal products, single-tenant …

Deploying .NET Applications with GitHub Actions and GHCR: An End-to-End Guide A practical guide to publishing and deploying .NET, Node.js, or any containerized workload using GitHub Actions, GitHub Container Registry, Docker Compose, and a traditional Linux server Read More
Operating Systems / Windows

Windows 11 install without TPM - How to bypass prerequisites check A practical guide to creating installation media that can skip CPU, TPM and UEFI checks using MediaCreationTool.bat, and what risks you should understand before proceeding

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If your PC does not meet Microsoft’s official Windows 11 requirements (TPM 2.0, UEFI + Secure Boot, listed CPU families), it is still possible to build installation media that bypasses …

Windows 11 install without TPM - How to bypass prerequisites check A practical guide to creating installation media that can skip CPU, TPM and UEFI checks using MediaCreationTool.bat, and what risks you should understand before proceeding Read More
Operating Systems / Windows

Windows 11 Installer Stuck at 46% - How to Fix It If your windows upgrade process freezes during “Getting updates,” a quick restart of a key Windows service can get the installation moving again

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I'm writing this post to help many users who are upgrading to Windows 11 and have the installation process getting stuck at 46% during the Getting updates phase. Fortunately, the cause …

Windows 11 Installer Stuck at 46% - How to Fix It If your windows upgrade process freezes during “Getting updates,” a quick restart of a key Windows service can get the installation moving again Read More
ASP.NET / C# / Coding

ASP.NET Core Multi-Authentication: Combining OIDC, Google OAuth, and API Keys A practical guide to configuring multiple authentication schemes in ASP.NET Core with real-world providers: Google, GitHub, Microsoft Entra ID, and more

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In many ASP.NET Core applications, especially as the project grows, the idea of relying on a single authentication scheme quickly stops being enough. Interactive users may sign in with OpenID …

ASP.NET Core Multi-Authentication: Combining OIDC, Google OAuth, and API Keys A practical guide to configuring multiple authentication schemes in ASP.NET Core with real-world providers: Google, GitHub, Microsoft Entra ID, and more Read More
AI & Machine Learning / SEO & Marketing / Tools & Utilities / Web

AI is killing websites (and maybe they deserved it) From the decline of organic traffic to the explosion of zero-click answers: reflections on how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the web

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In recent years, tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s AI Overviews have revolutionized how we consume information online. Once, users searched on Google and opened blogs or articles. Today, many …

AI is killing websites (and maybe they deserved it) From the decline of organic traffic to the explosion of zero-click answers: reflections on how artificial intelligence tools are reshaping the web Read More