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Written by Adam Swanson, hailing from Indiana, who designs, builds, and delivers software. You know, the cool stuff. You should follow him on X.

  1. March 28, 2024

    It's true: having tests gives you safety. Safety to add new features. Safety to refactor code. Safety to fix one bug without causing two more. And they're completely automated, saving time that you would've spent manually testing. These benefits are a real game-changer in the software development industry, allowing us developers to confidently build products - with fewer bugs - in less time. And yet, not all of us write tests. Why?

  2. January 14, 2021

    Creating a new .NET Core project with the Angular template is pretty handy, but it starts you out on Angular 8. The upgrade process to version 10 is not very straightforward and can cause some serious headaches if you're not sure what to look out for. Thankfully, I recently completed this process and wanted to share the steps I took to perform a successful upgrade.