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Rick Strahl
Personal blog · weblog.west-wind.comprogrammingweb
Rick Strahl's personal blog at weblog.west-wind.com covers programming and web. Since 2014, 27 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “Web Code is a solved Problem – how about fixing Web UI next?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Wind, Waves, Code and everything in between...
Most-linked posts?
- Web Code is a solved Problem – how about fixing Web UI next?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-06-01
- Using Let's Encrypt with IIS on Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-01-06
- NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 Are Here2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-10-24
- NET Standard 2.0 – Making Sense of .NET Again2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-24
What Hacker News says?
This is an interesting data point for folks designing demo pages. The API was discovered by playing with the demo page [1] according to a link from a link in the article [1] https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2011/aug/06/translating-w...
Comment linking /posts/2011/aug/06/translating-with-google-translate-without-api-and-c-code
on “How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API”Submitted Web Code is a solved Problem – how about fixing Web UI next? as a story · 111 points
HN discussionNice article, though it doesn't cover CORS with NTLM/Kerberos auth (ie. .NET on windows). To my mind this is the most baffling aspect here, as preflight requests shouldn't carry an auth token (according to the spec), however IIS is an all-or-nothing auth which will thus reject the preflight request, unless it is specifically handled. Additionally, there are different ways to handle preflighting for owin and aspnetco…
Comment linking /posts/2016/Sep/26/ASPNET-Core-and-CORS-Gotchas
on “Demystifying CORS”Submitted ASP.NET Framework Performance as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot personally tried these but... https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/feb/22/using-lets-en...
Comment linking /posts/2016/feb/22/using-lets-encrypt-with-iis-on-windows
on “ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project”Submitted The Broken Promise of the Mobile Web as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've encountered the problem he describes in WinUI, too. It can happen in any toolkit where you bind to change events of "observables". In my case I had a list view and a details view, and when you pressed down in the list view, it would get janky and struggle to update the detail view in time. To make it worse, sometimes selecting a different row would hit off a HTTP request in the background to update some cached…
Comment linking /posts/2017/Jul/02/Debouncing-and-Throttling-Dispatcher-Events
on “Why I quit using SwiftUI”Submitted Web Code is a solved Problem: How about fixing Web UI next? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWatch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNUUAIGHupc (4 minutes) Read this https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/Nov/23/NET-Standard-...
Comment linking /posts/2016/Nov/23/NET-Standard-20-Making-Sense-of-NET-Again
on “Open Source .NET – 2 years later”Submitted Web Code is a solved Problem: How about fixing Web UI next? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIf you try to do it in one big hit it will be hard but you don't have to do that. You can move it over piecemeal. You can use multi-targeting to move parts of your code over to .NET Standard. So if you start with your base projects and move your way up, gradually your code will become compatible between .NET core and .NET Framework. This will help you remove any .NET Full Framework / Windows specific bits. Where you…
Comment linking /posts/2017/Jun/22/MultiTargeting-and-Porting-a-NET-Library-to-NET-Core-20
on “Mobius – .NET runtime running on .NET Core”Submitted NET Core 2.0 and ASP.NET Core 2.0 Are Here as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> Just hitting the windows key and typing "notepad" and hitting enter has gone from something that was near instant in windows XP to something that takes 30 seconds and only sometimes might be successful Agreed. It's also surprisingly easy to fix - disable web search in the start menu. [0] > Because as horrible as defender is, have you experienced commercial AV products? yes, and they're a disgrace. I don't normally…
Comment linking /posts/2024/May/03/Speed-up-your-Start-Menu-by-disabling-Web-Search
on “Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time”Submitted Comparing Raw Asp.net Request Throughput Across Versions as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlthough I believe this software (dpScreenOCR-1.1.0-win32-2.exe) is fully safe, virustotal is giving 2 false positives (Avast and AVG). I mean, probably part of your users will not install the program because of this. Maybe you want to track the reason and kill these false positives. This guy documented his process: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/oct/05/dealing-with-...
Comment linking /posts/2016/oct/05/dealing-with-antivirus-false-positives
on “Show HN: dpScreenOCR – a program to recognize text on the screen”Submitted Async and Async Void Event Handling in WPF as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLooks like he posted Owin/Helios results back in December. http://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2013/Dec/09/Reexamining-AS... Not sure why someone posted this old 2012 article to HN when something much more current was available.
Comment linking /posts/2013/Dec/09/Reexamining-ASPNET-and-Helios-Performance-Tests
on “ASP.NET Framework Performance”Submitted Using the CSS brightness filter to generically highlight content as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Let's Encrypt with IIS on Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C# NumberFormat Sections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Moving to Lets Encrypt SSL Certificates as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Rise of JavaScript Frameworks – Part 2: Tomorrow as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Turn Off HTML Input Auto Fixups for Mobile Devices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Broken Promise of the Mobile Web as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating Dual Use Windows GUI and Console Applications as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Runtime C# Code Compilation Revisited for Roslyn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Async/Await Conversion in a Desktop App as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Configuring LetsEncrypt for Asp.net Core and IIS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Assembly and Blazor: Re-Assembling the Web as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted ASP .NET Core 2.0 is the version to jump in as a story · 1 points
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