C#

I often download large files like Linux distros, these can take a while, so I wrote a fast downloader that splits the file into multiple parts and downloads them in parallel.

I got a little tired of running python -m http.server every time I wanted to serve some files, so I wrote a simple .NET CLI web server.

Here is a C# CLI for Kafka to produce and consume messages, and list, create, and delete topics.

This is a follow-up to my CLI consumer for Kafka in C#. Here is a simple CLI producer in C#.

I used to use the Confluent CLI to consume messages from Kafka, but recently it stopped working for me. So I wrote my own simple CLI consumer in C#.

Just for the sheer joy of it, here is a simple C# program that encodes Morse code messages and plays them on Windows and Linux.

Sorting strings that contain numbers gets a little more complicated when the number has a variable number of digits. You can end up with a list like this - 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4…

I usually want to run a task immediately, but there are times when I want to create a task, but not start it until later. This post will show you how to do defer execution of a task.

There are a few ways to kill a host application from a BackgroundService. In this post I’ll show what is probably the most correct way.

This post shows you how to use a synchronous call in a background service without blocking the application or other background services.