Behind the scenes
It started like any other workday. I was building an endpoint to return a list of users along with their posts and comments. Easy, right? Fire up Entity Framework, write a clean LINQ query, hit F5. Done. Until my API took forever to respond. My local machine’s fan went full blast. And the SQL logs?…
Ever had one of those coding days where nothing makes sense — not even your own code? I ran into one of those recently. What started as a simple API tweak spiralled into a weird bug hunt that made me question reality, logic, and possibly the entire HTTP spec. Let me share what happened. If…
This one’s for every dev who has yelled, “Why isn’t my logger working?!” only to discover that… it was. It just wasn’t working for your part of the app. That was me a few days ago — sprinkling LogInformation calls like seasoning into a new service class, confident I’d see those sweet, sweet logs. But…
You know that feeling when everything compiles, all your unit tests are green, and you’re about to push with confidence… and then suddenly, tests start failing randomly? That was me — confused, frustrated, and convinced I was in a timeline where DateTime.Now had turned into a prank API. This is a story about how a…
Why System.Text.Json Is More Strict Than You Expect There I was, staring at my console, wondering why a perfectly good JSON blob was refusing to deserialize. I had recently swapped out Newtonsoft.Json for the leaner, faster System.Text.Json, excited to embrace a modern, built-in library. But then… nothing worked. No errors, no obvious hints. Just silent…
A Lesson in Relative Paths in .NET Apps If you’ve ever had that sinking feeling after realizing your code just wiped out the wrong file, you’re not alone. I recently had this exact nightmare, and it all came down to a sneaky culprit: relative paths. Let me share my story, the lessons I learned, and…
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