Self Introduction

Photo by Florian Berger on Unsplash How do I separate my work and personal Github accounts? Let’s say you’re working from home. You are using your personal computer for your personal projects. Then you find your new employer is using Github. You already have your computer set up with an SSH key for your personal Github account, and like some people suggest, you are creating a separate Github account for your almighty employer. You know, work-life balance?

Photo by Jason Dent on Unsplash Introduction .NET Core developers are #blessed 💛 to be provided an easy-to-use out-of-the-box feature to integrate user authentication and authorization on their Web APIs. The said feature is called Identity. Identity is .NET Core’s framework to manage user authentication: registration, login, etc. This feature is even able to generate a token to confirm the user’s email. While these features are possible on other language frameworks, .NET Core Identity goes a step further by providing a well-designed default, yet flexible, implementations to apply on APIs.

Photo by Chester Alvarez on Unsplash Introduction I have recently been dabbling with .NET Core after years of being a Java specialist. And so far I’m liking it. That’s another story, but in the meantime let’s talk about how to set up EF Core, code-first, on .NET Core 3.1. It took my time– a whole weekend– to find references and make it work. I don’t know if it’s my inexperience in the framework kicking in, or there isn’t much on the web.

Photo by enginakyurt on Unsplash Life would not pause and wait for you. Let me start with a widely-known quote. I know these times are hard. Many of us are merely trying to survive. And that is fine. I want to give you a pat on the back for a job well done. I will not force you to change whatever your state is right now. But still, reality sucks. Life is not an episode of your favorite series on Netflix that you can pause whenever you hear the call of nature.

First of history Hey there! Glad you reached this site’s first-ever blog post. Feel free to browse all the posts to date. Now that the formalities are out of the way… Pudding Coffee, or Coffee Pudding? As you probably noticed above, I went for the latter (yes I’m talking about the site’s name). It really isn’t the question of which is tastier; or what anyone prefers. It’s more of what sounds more pleasant to one’s ears.