After initially viewing AI as just another hype cycle driven by market pressures, I became a daily user when Claude Code allowed me to harness AI’s power within my existing development workflow.

Fed up with losing SSH keys during my annual machine rebuilds, I discovered 1Password’s SSH Agent functionality. With some configuration tweaks, I now manage keys securely across devices and projects while adding MFA protection to every SSH operation.

Cross-platform encryption is a pain - different languages, same algorithm, different implementations. Here’s working AES-256 code for C#, Node.js, and PowerShell that actually interoperates correctly, so you don’t have to debug crypto edge cases.

After 14 years of domain ownership and multiple redesigns, I finally found the perfect solution: a Jekyll static site on GitHub Pages. No more worrying about AppPools, NGINX configs, or hosting costs - just markdown files and content focus.

How I built an integration with Google Analytics with ASP.NET

I wanted a quick and easy way to get a short URL for my blog posts, so I used the bit.ly API and created a simple function in C# to handle it. With this function, you can easily shorten any URL by passing it as an argument.

I was able to display my Flickr photos on a web page using the Flickr.Net API, which involved creating a repeater in an ASP.NET page and writing some backend code in C#. The end result is a simple paginated photo gallery that retrieves photos from Flickr based on user ID and other parameters.

I was able to create a popup control extender with radio buttons for selecting logos in a GridView. The backend code was written in C# and used to populate the radio button list based on files in an image folder.

I was struggling to get a loading GIF to display when updating my ASP.NET UpdatePanel, but I finally found a solution that works for me. By using custom JavaScript handlers, I can now control the display of my loading GIF based on specific conditions.

I was looking for a way to handle empty data in my repeater control, and I found that creating a custom repeater class with an EmptyTemplate property achieves this. With this solution, I can now easily display a custom message when the data source is null or empty.