Geoff Mazeroff

Communication The Science Behind Dramatically Better Conversations Discussions typically have multiple conversations — practical (what’s this really about), emotional (how do we feel), social (who are we). Things get off the rails when you’re having one conversation and the other…

.NET WhenAll vs WaitAny The Craziest Feature .NET Released in YEARS The StringComparer class supports a new option — CompareOptions.NumericOrdering — that allows you to do things like have “07” equal to “7”. Another use case is when you have…

Sociology The Theory of Stupidity

.NET The Most Underrated .NET Feature You Must Use Channels can be thought of as in-memory queues. See the official Microsoft docs here. Decisions 5 Questions to Help Your Team Make Better Decisions

.NET Everything a .NET Developer Needs to Know in 2025 This is an updated version of last year’s roadmap — so many things!

.NET Fixing Your Dictionary Problem in .NET A common scenario is checking if a key exists before inserting it. This causes two passes through the hashing algorithm — lookup, insertion. Note that ConcurrentDictionary<T> has a GetOrAdd() method. You can make…

.NET The Problem with Singletons You Need to Avoid For most applications, using the traditional singleton pattern (or using a singleton scope in a service container) is good enough to minimize overhead of things “create once use many.” There are…

.NET Don’t Use This LINQ Feature. It’s Bad. Code Cop #26 This video was about .Skip(x).Take(y) versus .Take(x..y). The performance difference is minor for providing a range argument. The former tends to be more readable as well. The New Way…