Journal

Cooking content on social media is everywhere, or at least in my feed. My girlfriend and I keep a shared saved list on Instagram, which works great as an endless inspiration board. But when it actually comes time to cook, scrolling back through a reel to catch that one ingredient you missed, or rewinding because the creator mumbled a measurement, is a pain.

Over the last few weeks, the landscape of AI coding agents has evolved rapidly. Some might remember when GitHub released Copilot back in October 2021. It's impressive to see how we've gone from a small chat window inside an IDE to CLI tools that can build a simple CRUD API or a website with a single prompt.

When you host an ASP.NET Core application with IIS, you're not replacing Kestrel. Instead, you're putting IIS in front of it in a setup called a reverse proxy. This means that you can't listen on custom ports like you can with Kestrel. This post shows you how to listen on custom ports in ASP.NET Core.

In backend development, effective logging is essential for maintaining a healthy and efficient system. It provides insights into the behavior of your application, aiding in debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization. NestJS offers a way to implement custom middleware, including logging mechanisms.

If you've worked with asynchronous code in TypeScript for any length of time, you'll know that error handling can get messy fast. Between nested try-catch blocks and repetitive error-handling logic, it doesn't take long before your codebase starts feeling cluttered. That's why I've found myself leaning toward a more elegant solution — the `tryCatch` helper function. This little utility is inspired by Go's error-handling approach and wraps your async functions in a way that simplifies error management, making your code more readable and maintainable.

In this blog post, we will explore a fascinating use case of FFmpeg in a React application. We will be merging video clips fetched from an API, adjusting their frame rates, and ensuring they all have the same resolution.

React Context is a powerful feature that allows components to share state without prop drilling. It's particularly useful for managing global state, theme preferences, user authentication, and more. However, like any tool, it's important to use React Context effectively to ensure maintainable and organized code. In this post, we'll delve into best practices for using React Context, and why exporting your `useContext` logic to a custom hook is a wise decision.