Tidbits

Always be threat modeling

Data is a liability. You should consistently be questioning which resources need protection, system boundaries, access capabilities from all sides, and what it would take to feasibly cause a breach.

Semantic slots brings context to styles

Semantic slots allow labeling of CSS property values with context friendly notation e.g. color: slot.get('body.text.primary');

Try out scss-semantic-slots and write more consistent SASS.

Dependency Injection is always the answer

There aren't many hills I'd die on, but DI is one I refuse to budge on.

The minor inconvenience of complexity is far out weighed by a code base's ability to be easily manipulated with minimal side effects.

Blazor + HTML minification

Blazor tracks local state through HTML comments. HTML minification should exclude Blazor: comments to avoid rendering the application unusable.

A job done well means not over-engineered

Over-engineering is a complexity that burdens code bases, developers and budgets. We need to encourage each other to solve today's problems, not tomorrows.

Could, would, should

The three most powerful words I use consistently in code reviews. No condescending tones, no orders, just simple open ended questions leading the author to reevaluate and stay in control of their code.

Async locking

Async by design may not resume on its original thread which can result in deadlocks. Locking needs to occur through a shared resource, a semaphore.

Prefiltering large datasets

When dealing with missing indexes or large data sets across joins, in-memory temp tables are often be a highly performant solution.

Quick Git - Undo local commits

git reset --soft {commit sha}

Quick Git - Remove local commits

git reset --hard {commit sha}

Quick Git - Undo local changes

# remove uncommitted filesgit add .git stashgit stash drop

# remove untracked filesgit clean -fdx

Quick Git - Remove branches

# remove local branchgit branch -D {branch}

# remove remote branchgit push -d origin {branch}

Nest less

Nesting reduces readability and increases cognitive load. Reduce, or better yet, never nest. Return early and extract code blocks when feasible.

SOLID, KISS, DRY = suggestions, not rules

Extensibility, flexiblity and maintainability should be balanced with future effort and developer sanity and onboardability.

Often times it is okay to repeat yourself, it is okay to be verbose and straightforward.

LINQ .Distinct on ordered results

If you've noticed that your ordered results become unordered after materializing with .Distrinct(), give .GroupBy() a try.

WebApi [FromBody]

Web Api's [FromBody] seems to confuse a lot of developers. By default Web Api will only look for primitve types (string, int, etc) in the uri.

For actions using primitive types in the body such as Post(int userId) we must tell the Web Api binder to look at the body of the request, not the uri, by decorating arguments with [FromBody].

CSS adjacent selector (+)

The + selector will apply style to the element immediately following the + selector. In the example below the p tag immediately following the h1 tag will have top margin.

Naming is hard

Naming and organization is one of the hardest parts of engineering. A poorly chosen name will haunt your code base for years, don't under think it.