During the winter break I read the book Radical Candor. The reason I picked up the book was that I had heard DHH mention it in a podcast episode. He had brought up the book in the context of how to give feedback to employees. The main thesis in Radical
I started my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@DanOpcode in 2023. Between 2023 and 2024, I made some travel vlogs. In 2025, I wanted to try a different format, with me walking outside, talking about subjects I care about – mainly IT related things. And toward the end of 2025,
From time to time I publish posts on LinkedIn. During most of 2025 I didn't post much though. But during the autumn, I joined a group of people who all wanted to start publishing text-based content regularly on social media/blogs. It's a group of peers,
I worked on removing metadata from PDF files created with GemBox, and in this post I will share the C# solution I came up with. I read about the PDF file format and discovered that everything is organized as objects, including the metadata. So I made a solution that simply
In the book "Algorithms to Live By" the authors describe an algorithm they call "optimal stopping". This is a principle that can be applied to everyday situations where we must decide when to stop searching and make a decision. The idea behind optimal stopping is the
On November 11, .NET 10 was released. Every November, a new version of .NET is released. It came with new functionality in C#, which I'm looking forward to use. Every year, .NET and C# become more capable, with more features and better ways of doing things. But as
Since ChatGPT 3.5, I have been alternating between ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Claude. Since the summer, I have been using Claude because I wanted access to Claude Code. Recently, I tried Claude Code in a slightly larger project, and I was surprised how well it performs. The project is
Some people are probably familiar with LeetCode as the site where those aspiring to work at FAANG companies practice for their upcoming coding interviews. I recently tried solving some problems on the site and found it really entertaining. Several programming languages are supported and I'm happy that Elixir
There's a new, hot version control system that replaces Git called Jujutsu (jj). I started to use Jujutsu a couple of months ago, during my summer vacation. I had read posts online from a lot of people who had made the switch and really liked it, which intrigued
In the beginning of this year, the owner of the .NET library FluentAssertions suddenly released a new version (8) of the library with a new license. Previous versions of the library were licensed under Apache License 2.0. But now the license was replaced by a proprietary one, requiring you
I have been using Gmail since 2007, but now I have decided to stop using Gmail for a couple of reasons. By using multiple Google products, you expose yourself to the risk of being locked out of all of them if you ever do something in one product that gets
I have a home server that's running 24/7. For my wife and me to access the services that are running on it when we are away from home, I have installed Tailscale on it and on our devices. I have also enabled it so that the server