Many form services are annoying and charge for basic features.

So I wrote my own. It has everything I think most people would need for personal sites and small businesses.

- Has an API allowing UI's to be dynamically be generated.
- Supports basically all HTML field types and has server side validation.
- Uses an outbox pattern to ensure reliability and retries should the mail server be down.
- Generates responsive emails.

#programming #dotnet #csharp #linux #webdev #html @dotnet

(1/2) My first foray into OpenTelemetry was disappointing. The UI's and broken tools are a mess.

- Bad consistency
- Dozens of packages required
- Spans seem to work 50% of the time

Notice just "postgresql". No details. I have to expand it to see them. Compare with the second screenshot where I see ACTUAL details without needing to expand.

As for spans, look at that "=> 4.41s". If I'm using OT that should be a Span instead of polluting the log entries?

#dotnet #programming #opentelemetry

I discovered, to my horror, the shit legacy codebase at work that was amateurishly written does not use database transactions. For anything! There's so many places I can see where inserts and updates could be literally catastrophic.

#rant #database #sql

I am normally adverse to putting business logic in databases, but I have found a nice self contained use case for it. Instead of adding another scheduled job in my application, I use PostgreSQL's pg_cron extension.

#dotnet #csharp #postgresql #database #programming #sql

I'm migrating my site from Tailwind to https://vanilla-extract.style/. Making some progress, happy with the type safety of the design system. On the left is the current Tailwind styling and on the right is the new vanilla-extract styling.

#webdev #programming #tailwind #vanillaextract #typescript