I got a chance to build a medium-budget PC for light 3D CAD modeling. This PC replaced an older machine running a 5th-gen i5 with and integrated GPU. I wanted to wait for the AM5-based Ryzens G APUs, but they still haven’t arrived, and with RAM prices skyrocketing recently, I’m glad I completed this build at the end of last summer.

I was unit testing some invalid user inputs in C# with xUnit v3 and was getting weird results when using [InlineData]. It turns out this was by xUnit’s design, and here is my workaround.

My Asus NUC 12 Pro with a 12th-generation i5-1240P is a capable machine for running my Minecraft servers. There was just one problem: it was noisy even at idle. Under load, it sounded like a Concorde taking off. Inspired by the NUCTUA, a whisper-quiet NUC, I decided to perform a similar mod. Welcome to the NUCkentua.

My 5070 Ti was the only thing making a noticeable noise when under a heavy load in my small form factor (SFF) case; I didn’t like that. So, it was time to make it silent.

After more than a decade, I’ve finally built a new PC to replace my old i7-3930K workhorse. I used to build large tower PCs, but lately, I’ve been fascinated by Small Form Factor (SFF) builds. After months of researching parts, especially mini-ITX cases and CPU coolers, I chose the HYTE Revolt 3. This PC is primarily for programming work, with some 1440p gaming on the side.

I wanted to play Minecraft with friends, so a journey began to self-host our own server. I have some Docker experience, so I decided to host the server in a Docker container on my NAS server. Let’s dig deeper before I get many more ideas on how to improve my setup.

When I started using foreign keys in SQLite, I was surprised to find an empty table after updating another one. I was using the REPLACE conflict resolution algorithm, and the empty table had foreign keys with cascading delete. This behavior was unexpected, so let’s dig in.

Does your application start indefinite vibrations that you stop some time later, e.g. in a BroadcastReceiver? Have you received bug reports that your application won’t stop vibrating? Me too, and here is my solution.

Here is a way to clean-up ASUS router’s NVRAM without full factory reset. Yes, it is possible :)

I like JetBrains’ Rider ; it’s much better than Visual Studio (VS), but it can fail running .NET applications in the debug mode. So here is a workaround.