Tech articles
The mBot by Makeblock is a cutesy blue robot for teaching kids programming. It has laid on my shelf for a few years before I got to it. I am no longer a kid but I can surely learn new things with it, can I?
SQLite is king. It works great for a multitude of use cases, which include desktop apps, web apps, embedded scenarios, and others. Does it have alternatives? And how about .NET - does it have a database that would be more native to the ecosystem? Yes it does. It's called LiteDB.
I played with Ops and NanoVMs on my Windows box with WSL2 and did not hurt myself.
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 might usher in an era of remote working. How to be productive when you are on your own? I share my tips and tricks.
I test how I can use Nuget packages when fooling around with Jupyter notebooks using C#.
I dip my toes into the fresh waters of .NET Interactive. An intro post.
I love the switch expressions in C# 8. They are a nifty little tool to move away from procedural ways of thinking and writing code. However, they seem to also contain dangers that could take away years of progress made in OOP.
MongoDB does not speak SQL. That's fine - it speaks Javascript. You can quickly export interesting views on your data with just a bit of code.