How I Use AI to Save Time on .NET Projects
Real-world ways I use AI tools like GitHub Copilot to speed up .NET development without sacrificing quality or my job.
Blog
This is a blog about software engineering, consulting, coffee and other things that I find interesting.
2025
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/ai-dotnet-projects
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/dogwood-mixed-tape
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/verve-banko-taratu
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/fix-inherited-dotnet-app
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/photos-may-2025
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/aspnet-core-sub-claim-mapping
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/indieweb-integration
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/its-ok-to-ask-for-help
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/verve-mustefa-abakeno
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/ai-use-case-debugging-vue
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/april-photos-2025
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/call-your-dad
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/verve-montes-de-oro
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/what-to-write-on-linkedin
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/southern-california-vacation
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/big-little-cities-progress
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/manually-deploy-dotnet-webapi
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/copying-code-pragmatically
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/on-getting-things-done-with-ai
https://clintmcmahon.com/blog/find-broken-instagram-embeds
Mixed Tape from Dogwood Coffee
A Minneapolis roaster that's fine but not great—chocolate and corny notes couldn't justify specialty prices for the weekly rotation.
Banko Taratu from Verve
An East African cold brew with blood orange and black tea notes—saved my Verve subscription after too many fruity African blends.
How to Fix a Broken .NET App You Just Inherited
A practical guide for developers and consultants who need to take over and rescue a legacy .NET codebase.
Photos: May 2025
A collection of my favorite photos taken in May 2025.
How To Fix Missing 'sub' Claim an ASP.NET JWT
If you're using Azure AD B2C and can't find the 'sub' claim in your Web API, ASP.NET Core's default claim mapping is likely the culprit. Here's how to work with JWT claims directly.
Adding IndieAuth and IndieWeb Features to My ASP.NET Core Website
How I made clintmcmahon.com IndieWeb-friendly with IndieAuth, microformats, and the IndieWeb Webring.
It's OK to ask for help
So often in my career I've offered to help someone with a task and they don't take me up on it. I can't figure out why people don't take free help.
Mustefa Abakeno from Verve
An East African light roast that made outstanding cold brew with pear and marmalade notes—one of the best cold brews I've made in some time.
AI Use Case: Debugging Vue + Quasar UI Code with ChatGPT
I use AI in my day-to-day life as a developer and human. One way that I use AI as a developer is to understand code bases that I'm not familiar with.
Photos: April 2025
I did not take very many photos in April. But here are the best of the ones I did take.
Call your dad
Today is my dad's birthday. This morning Siri put a prompt on my homescreen to tell me to call him today. That's the AI I want in my life.
Montes De Oro from Verve ⭐
A Costa Rican with green apple, plum, and butterscotch notes—earned five stars even when espresso ran thin. Might be my favorite Verve coffee.
What to write on LinkedIn
I've been on LinkedIn from the beginning but I still have no idea what I'm suppose to write on the platform.
Photos: Southern California Spring Break
We just returned from our spring break in Southern California. Here are a collection of my favorite photos from the trip.
Big Little Cities progress
Making good progress on our second t-shirt company, Big Little Cities. Our latest updates are samples, photoshoot and finishing up the website.
How to manually deploy a .Net WebApi project
This blog post is about how to manually deploy a .Net WebApi project to a live server without using an CI/CD.
Duplicating Code
A reflection on why I'm not creating a reusable component for a new feature.
Be someone who gets things done...with AI
There is a general sense that as AI creeps more into software development, coders are going to lose their identities as developers. I see this as it helping my identity as someone who gets things done.
Find Broken Instagram Embed Links
With the help of ChatGPT I wrote a Python script that iterates through a website's sitemap to report which Instagram embeds are broken.