Routing in MVC - ASP.NET Core Demystified

Let's see how to route URLs to controller actions using both conventions and attributes in ASP.NET Core!

The Toxic Glorification of Working Hard

When companies put out ads glorifying workers who willingly sacrifice time for money, who wins? Hint: not you.

Become Your Teammates' Rubber Duck

You may be familiar with the term rubber duck debugging [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging]. This is the idea that in order to help a programmer solve a problem, s/he should explain it to some kind of inanimate object (most commonly a rubber duck), because in

The Ultimate RestSharp Client in ASP.NET and C#

Let's build the ultimate RestSharp client in ASP.NET, and show how we can use RestSharp to consume APIs simply and effectively.

Solving the Stupid Bug

A few weeks back I wrote about a very unusual bug that returned 500 errors for routes that should have been valid [https://www.exceptionnotfound.net/a-stupid-bug-and-a-plea-for-help/]. Recently my team and I, to our great relief, discovered the cause of this bug. Of course, that wasn't before we ended up