ReSharper Made VS Code a Real Option for My .NET Work
Most posts about ReSharper for VS Code want to convert you. This one doesn’t. I write most of my .NET in Rider. I’m not moving. What changed for me back in March 2026, when JetBrains shipped the…
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htmxRazor v2.0.0: Platform and DX
An interactive playground, a live theme builder, SignalR, and a Kanban board, all on .NET 10 with no breaking changes. htmxRazor v2.0.0 is out today. The six features in this release span three…
How to Delete and Update Millions of Rows in EF Core Without Loading a Single Entity
This post is sponsored by ZZZ Projects. The Code Every Developer Has Written and Regretted Most EF Core performance disasters are not exotic edge cases. They get written in the first sprint, look…
htmxRazor v1.4.0: SSE Streaming, Multi-step Wizard, and Optimistic UI
v1.4.0 ships today with seven features built around a single theme: the interaction patterns real production applications actually need. Real-time content streaming, multi-step workflows, immediate…
htmxRazor v1.3.0: Data Table, Accessibility, and Modern CSS
v1.3.0 lands today with six features organized around a clear theme: production patterns for .NET developers building server-rendered UIs that work correctly for everyone, including keyboard users…
htmxRazor 1.2.0: Toast Notifications, Pagination, and the End of CSS Specificity Fights
The first feature release after htmxRazor hit 1.1 is here, and it targets the three complaints I hear most from .NET developers building server-rendered apps with htmx: “I need toast notifications,”…
Fencing Tokens and Generation Clock in .NET: Stop Zombie Leaders From Writing
Leader election and leases answer a comforting question: who should be in charge right now. They do not fully answer the dangerous question: who can still write right now. A node can lose its lease…
Stop Wrestling with JavaScript: htmxRazor Gives ASP.NET Core the Component Library It Deserves
Here is an uncomfortable truth the ASP.NET Core community has been avoiding for too long: server-rendered web development should not require you to adopt React, Vue, or Angular just to get a decent…
Lease Pattern in .NET: A Lock With an Expiration Date That Saves Your Data
Indefinite locks belong to a world where processes never crash and networks never split. That world does not exist. In a distributed system, “I hold the lock” can mean…
Leader Election in .NET: Picking One Boss Without Creating Two
If your service runs on more than one node and still has a single instance assumption, you already have leader election. You just do not have it on purpose. Leader…
Distributed System Pattern: Leader and Followers in .NET - One Decision Maker, Many Replicas, Fewer Outages
Distributed systems rarely fail because you picked the wrong cloud service. They fail because two nodes believe they are in charge, both act, and both are “correct” from…
Patterns of Distributed Systems in C# and .NET: A New Series for People Who Ship Real Systems
Distributed systems do not fail because you missed a feature. They fail because responsibility is unclear. Two nodes act, both think they are right, and your data…