Lachlan Barclay's blog, you know, that nerdy nerd nerd.

Splitting up the monolith

Posted on January 21, 2025

A few years back, my team took on the challenge of breaking down the Rome2Rio monolith. The goal was to make it easier for separate teams to work on different parts of the codebase. In this three-part series, I've written hopefully useful stuff like detailing our approach to dismantling the... [Read More]

Tags: c# monolith dotnet framework microservices

Mounting a bike rack to your brick wall

Posted on January 3, 2023

Mounting a bike rack to a brick wall ain't easy. Here's how I did it. [Read More]

Tags: mounting bike rack hook wall brick dynabolt

Adding a circuit breaker to your ASP.NET 6 application

Posted on January 3, 2023

In this example we have an application that calls two API's - one is the google timezone API, which is called by using a standard HttpClient, and another is Redis, which uses it's own custom client. As a first step, we need to create a few policies and add them... [Read More]

Tags: c# polly circuit-breaker aspnet

Programming an Arduino to connect a dance pad via USB for StepMania

Posted on November 16, 2022

Programming an Arduino based USB controller for a DDR/StepMania dance pad. How hard can it be? [Read More]

Tags: ddr wii stepmania arduino dance pad mat

Song 'You are a star' chord chart

Posted on August 7, 2022

Chord chart for "You are a star", which is a song featured in "Hottest Dance Party 3" wii game. [Read More]

Tags: ddr wii

Updating IIS certificates with powershell

Posted on January 10, 2022

Let's say you needed to update your SSL certificates on IIS, across a whole lot of servers. Do you want to do it all manually? Heck no. Let's hack something together in powershell to make it work. The method binding.AddSslCertificate() is the one you're looking for! [Read More]

Tags: powershell iis certificates

Recommended Multiplayer Doom WADS

Posted on August 17, 2021

For a while now a bunch of friends and I have been playing co-operative Doom using custom WADS. These WADS are utterly incredible, vastly improving the original doom with mind-blowing map design, new monsters, new weapons, new sounds & new puzzles. The amount of things that can be done with... [Read More]

Tags: doom multiplayer zandronum

Talking To Doom In 1993 From Discord In 2021

Posted on August 17, 2021

Did you know that multiplayer doom is still alive and kicking? Nope, not Doom Eternal. Not 2016 Doom.. but 1993 doom! Thanks to the legends who work on Zandronum, you can play deathmatch or co-operative play over the internet using the original doom engine. Except the engine has been improved... [Read More]

Tags: discord c# dotnet zandronum udp nuget

Moving Dotnet App To Linux And Docker

Posted on June 2, 2021

A few months back, I decided to convert an existing .NET core application to run on Linux. As part of this work, I decided to run it inside a Docker container, which meant I could have my application running on Linux without worrying about setting up all of the dependencies... [Read More]

Tags: dotnet docker linux c#

Porting From Dotnet Framework To Dotnet Core

Posted on September 24, 2020

I recently gave a talk (over zoom) about moving your Asp.Net Framework application to .NET Core. After moving a bunch of my own applications, I realised that there was an easy road to take, and a hard road to take. Moving your application doesn’t have to be a dangerous experiment.... [Read More]

Tags: dotnet dotnetframework dotnetcore workshop popular

Lachlan Barclay's blog, you know, that nerdy nerd nerd.

Lachlan Barclay's blog, you know, that nerdy nerd nerd.

Splitting up the monolith

Mounting a bike rack to your brick wall

Adding a circuit breaker to your ASP.NET 6 application

Programming an Arduino to connect a dance pad via USB for StepMania

Song 'You are a star' chord chart

Updating IIS certificates with powershell

Recommended Multiplayer Doom WADS

Talking To Doom In 1993 From Discord In 2021

Moving Dotnet App To Linux And Docker

Porting From Dotnet Framework To Dotnet Core

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