Featured Posts

Sometimes niche, silly, fun, or technical but they're my favourite posts, and I'd love to show them to you.

NuGet Featured

ZeroRedact: A Simple Redaction NuGet Package

ZeroRedact is a fast, simple, zero allocation redacting library for .NET. Read about how to easily redact discrete pieces of PII or other sensitive information in .NET.

C# Featured

Use Any Language to Control mGBA

mGBA-http is an HTTP interface for mGBA emulator scripting. Programmatically connect to mGBA with your favourite language using an HTTP REST API. Easily create your own cross platform "Twitch Plays", Gameboy playing bot, or more.

Code Opinions Featured

Your Personal Projects Can Be as Simple as You Want

I used to be worried about what others would think about my dinky little public projects, thinking they wouldn't properly reflect my skill. But in reality, it doesn't really matter. You do you 👑.

Adafruit Feather Featured

How to Build Your Own CO2 Meter With an Adafruit Feather and E-Ink Display

Carbon dioxide levels have been a hot topic and in this tutorial I'll teach you how I made one from an Adafruit Feather, E-Ink display, CO2 sensor, and CircuitPython to help measure your air quality.

Game Boy Featured

Why Did I Write a Gameboy Color Image Decolouriser?

Come read about how I created this tool to more cleanly import Gameboy Color images as backgrounds in GB Studio because sometimes the colour definition gets lost when using the GB Studio tools.

Browser Console Featured

How I Added an Animation to the Browser Devtools Console

You might have heard of colouring browser devtool console output with CSS or even using an image. But this post will take you through my journey of making an animated SVG and how I put it on my console window. Check out the dev tools yourself!

C# Featured

Shrinking a Self-Contained .NET 6 Wordle-Clone Executable

Shrinking the size of an executable in .NET can be more than just TrimMode. Join me in this post where we will look at the compiler, linker, and the experimental .NET AOT in order to further shrink the .exe of a Wordle clone, TinyWordle.

C# Featured

Writing a .NET Music Discord Bot for a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: Brotherman Bill

This post takes us through creating a music Discord bot using C#, Lavalink, and Victoria while running on a small Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.

Pokemon Featured

Generation One Pokémon Procedural Building Generation

Generate nearly every Gen One Pokémon building by picking the right settings and dragging to the right size.

Pokemon Featured

Making a Living Dex: Part 3 - Preservation and Generation Five

Part 3 has us looking at how I preserved my old ROMs and save files from old Pokémon games as well as moving up Pokémon from these generations to the modern generation.

Pokemon Featured

Making a Living Dex: Part 1 - A Lifelong Dream

The first part of my series on creating a Living Dex. Here we'll look at some of my Pokémon history and set ourselves up for the whole journey to catch 'em all.

C# Featured

QR Code Pings With Azure Functions and Azure SignalR

A fun little project where a QR code gets an animated rainbow border when it's scanned. The post contains a working demo and an explanation of all the steps behind it using Azure Functions and an Azure SignalR Service.

C# Featured

Why is .GetAwaiter().GetResult() bad in C#?

Why is .GetAwaiter().GetResult(), or .Wait() or .Result bad? It ends up boiling down to deadlocks and threadpool starvation. This post gives a gentle, high up look at why this may happen.

C# Featured

Looking at Entity Framework 6 Execution Strategies, Specifically SqlAzureExecutionStrategy

Implementing SqlAzureExecutionStrategy is easy, go ahead and lift it from here but this is also a deep dive into what makes it tick by looking at the EF6 source code for Execution Strategies.

Workplace Featured

Don't Call Staff "Resources"

I'm not a fan of dehumanizing staff and referring to them simply as "resources". I describe what else we can call staff as well as my thoughts on the topic.