Category: Programming
All my blog posts about programming in general, often C# / .NET related.
Migrate your WordPress blog to GitHub Pages with Jekyll
Running WordPress for a personal blog always felt like overkill. My site is mostly static — I write a new post, add some metadata, and hit publish. Yet there I...
My experience with GitHub Copilot in an open-source project
It is amazing how fast AI developments have led to fundamental changes in the development process of IT projects. It is difficult for me to imagine generative AI and AI...
Client certificate authentication in ASP.NET
Authentication is often a broad, difficult and not straightforward topic to work on as a software engineer. There are endless options to secure your application and just as many ways...
Distributing your API definition as a NuGet client
Creating APIs is quite simple nowadays. You can have a functional API up and running in the Azure cloud within minutes. By using an OpenAPI library like Swagger to publish...
Technorama Netherlands 2023 in review
During and shortly after COVID I kind of lost track of IT conferences. Working more from home and occasionally visiting the office makes your professional circle increasingly smaller without you...
SQL Server authentication and authorization on Azure with managed identities
Deploying infrastructure to Azure is easy enough these days with Azure Powershell, CLI or Bicep. Making interactions between infrastructure components secure is also facilitated in Azure with Managed Identities for...
Snapshot testing in .NET with Verify
Have you ever programmed something that had to output a string or file into a specific format? Whether it’s CSV, a markup language or worse.. position based text, I’ve written...