What's going on? 2025-04-30

A holiday, seasonably warm weather, and the NHL playoffs have taken my attention a little bit. Sometime things are predictable, and sometimes they’re not. Finding that balance in life and maintaining your personal life and professional life can cause you to prioritize one more than the other.

I spent some time talking to a buddy about my MacBook Air Project, and certifications as well. He talked to me about his boot camps. I am revisiting a lot of David Farley’s book on Modern Software Engineering. I suspect that I’ll be writing an entire review on this book.

C4 Diagrams

C4 Model - I’ve been looking a lot at diagraming different systems and creating them from the right level of detail based on the audience. Looking at C4 Diagrams to help create the different levels of abstraction, and relationships

Bit Stuffing

TechTarget - I was reminding myself of Bit Stuffing based on a recent project that leverages bit stuffing, and then someone asked an unrelated question about it. It isn’t something I do that often, so its nice to have a refresher.

Azure App Configuration

Microsoft Azure - Feels like everything I’m working on right now has a need for Feature Flags, so here comes Azure App Configuration. I’ve already started writing articles about it.

ASP.NET Core OpenAPI with Scalar

Medium - I started looking at Scalar since .Net 9.0, and the use of Swagger is no longer there. I haven’t spent a ton of time with .Net 9 because it isn’t an LTS version but I should!

Azure AI Vision

Microsoft Azure - I spent some time looking at this service from Azure. I like the idea of building my own image analysis tool. I wonder if I can build something to help me build some sort of analysis of my personal image library.