How to detect if the User's OS prefers dark mode and change your site with CSS and JS

I got a tweet from Stevö John who said he found my existing light theme for my blog to be jarring as he lives in Dark Mode. I had never really thought about it before, but once he said it, it was obvious. Not only should I support dark mode, but I should detect the user's preference and switch seamlessly. I should also support changing modes if the...

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Minimal APIs in .NET 6 but where are the Unit Tests?

Minimal APIs in .NET 6 is great. But where are the Unit Tests?! Often testing is missed or forgotten because it's perceived as difficult or complex. Exploring a minimal Web API with ASP.NET Core 6 A .NET 6 Minimal API Todo example Playground Exploring a minimal WebAPI with ASP.NET Core Easier functional and integration testing of ASP.NET Core applications...

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Minimal APIs at a glance in .NET 6

David Fowler doesn't have a blog. I think the psychic weight of having a blog would stress him out. Fortunately, David's 'blog' is actually hidden in his prolific GitHub commits and GitHub Gists. David has been quietly creating  an amazing piece of documentation for Minimal APIs in .NET 6. At some point when it's released we'll work with David to get...

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A .NET 6 Minimal API Todo example Playground

I really like minimal Web APIs. I've liked the idea for years. With .NET 6, it's starting to happen! Damian Edwards has an interesting minimal API Playground on his GitHub and Maria Naggaga did a great talk on Minimal APIs in .NET 6 that's up on YouTube! Let's explore! I'm running the latest .NET 6 and you can run it on Windows, Mac, or Linux and I...

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My Ultimate PowerShell prompt with Oh My Posh and the Windows Terminal

I've long blogged about my love of setting up a nice terminal, getting the prompt just right, setting my colors, fonts, glyphs, and more. Here's some of my posts. How to make a pretty prompt in Windows Terminal with Powerline, Nerd Fonts, Cascadia Code, WSL, and oh-my-posh Patching the new Cascadia Code to include Powerline Glyphs and other Nerd Fonts...

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Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers and has over 800 episodes of fresh tech from fresh faces

Hey friends! I wanted remind you about my podcast! It's http://hanselminutes.com/ and just a few weeks ago I published my 800th episode! My first episode was in January of 2006 so that's over 15 years of shows. And, if I may be a little boastful for a moment, they are pretty darn good. Maybe the first 400 were a little rough but these last 400 have...

Aug 2021

Carter Community for ASP.NET Core means enjoyable Web APIs on the cutting edge

I blogged about the open source Carter Community Project in 2019. Let's check in and see what's going on today in 2021! The open source Carter Community Project adds opinionated elegance to ASP.NET Core routing With .NET 6 on the near horizon, one notes that Carter has a net6 branch. Per their website, this is the goal of the Carter framework: Carter...

Aug 2021

Hanselminutes is Fresh Air for Developers and has over 800 episodes of fresh tech from fresh faces

Hey friends! I wanted remind you about my podcast! It's http://hanselminutes.com/ and just a few weeks ago I published my 800th episode! My first episode was in January of 2006 so that's over 15 years of shows. And, if I may be a little boastful for a moment, they are pretty darn good. Maybe the first 400 were a little rough but these last 400 have...

Aug 2021

Exploring a minimal Web API with ASP.NET Core 6

I write about minimal Web APIs in 2016 and my goal has always been for "dotnet server.cs" to allow for a single file simple Web API. Fast forward to 2021 and there's some great work happening again in the minimal API space! Let's do a 'dotnet new web' with the current .NET 6 preview. I'm on .NET 6 preview 7. As mentioned in the blog: We updated .NET...

Aug 2021

Stringly Typed vs Strongly Typed

I used to call this technique "type tunnelling" and noted its use in XML in 2005. When you are using a strongly typed language but instead your types are stringly typed, you are passing strings around when a better type exists. Here's some examples of stringly typed method calls:Robot.Move("1","2"); //Should be int like 1 and 2 Dog.InvokeMethod("Bark");...

Aug 2021