Sam Ferree's Blog

I Meant To Write Something Else, But I Can't Stop Playing with Pico.css

Jul 12, 20245 min read

I have plenty of articles in my //TODO list, but I found something that really brings the dopamine for a serial side project starter that isn't as...

Avoiding Result Pitfalls

Jun 28, 20247 min read

Sadly, C# does not ship with a Result<T> as part of the BCL. Even sadder, our friends lucky enough to work in F# have a really good one, so the .NET...

Basics In Blazor - Modal

Jun 21, 20247 min read

This post is part of a series called Basics in Blazor, where I explore returning to the simplicity of web UI, preferring semantic HTML and CSS to...

A Simple and Safe Stack

Jun 14, 20244 min read

As a developers, sometimes our end user is going to be other developers. When this happens, it's prudent for us to use all the tools available to us...

IEnumerable, It's Not a Collection.

Jun 7, 20244 min read

IEnumerable<T> has become one of the most popular ways not only to manipulate collections, but to pass them around as a read only structure. The power...

When to invert your if checks

May 31, 20242 min read

It's not uncommon to see code like this: if (someCondition is true) { // Do a thing // Do more things // do a final thing return...