Building a tiny IRC client in C#
IRC is old, plain, and surprisingly useful as a teaching tool. You open a TCP connection. You send text commands. The server sends text lines back. The connection stays open. If the server sends PING,

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IRC is old, plain, and surprisingly useful as a teaching tool. You open a TCP connection. You send text commands. The server sends text lines back. The connection stays open. If the server sends PING,

Every production system has a few lines of code that look too simple to question.In a .NET background worker, one of them is usually this: while (true) { await DoWorkAsync(); } It looks ok. It lo

Enums are one of those C# features that feel too small to deserve much architectural attention. You use them for status. You use them for type. You use them for source, category, reason, mode, provide

Most people think about DDoS as something hostile. Someone floods your public API, your infrastructure starts to bend, and the conversation moves towards rate limiting, WAF rules, autoscaling, caching

GitHub Copilot started as something most developers experienced inside the editor. You wrote a method. Copilot suggested the next few lines. Sometimes it was useful. Sometimes it was noisy. Either way

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, and the headline is easy to understand. It is the stronger Opus model. Better coding. Better agentic work. Better long-context behaviour. Better judgement. More
