Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printer
To add to the graveyard of Projects I bought an Epson TM-T88V thermal receipt printer. I'd seen some videos online of people scanning an NFC tag in their kitchen and it printing out the current weather, or their shopping list. Someone also put theirs on the web and allowed anyone to send a message, I need to find the original post about that.
.NET by Example - Samples
Last year I build .NET by Example with nocco and upgraded it to .NET 10 in February.
Blashing Updates
Continuing on my GitHub Copilot journey of raising MRs and not finding time to review them, I thought I'd try some on the Blashing app.
Blashing Widgets
What's been happening since the last Blashing - Blazing Story update and the original Beginning of Blashing, well it was just dependency updates from Dependabot then in June 2025 I updated it to .NET 9. A few months later in Oct I moved a majority of the work into a Shared Project #211 so I could re-use it in either a Client or Server app. Saves a lot of duplication.
.NET by Example
In this post I will explain how I built .NET by Example, a clone of Go by Example, using the updated nocco tool I've recently been working on.
.NET nocco
In this post I will talk through how I updated Don Wilson's (@dontangg) nocco from .NET Framework v4.0 to .NET (Core) v9.
.NET Tool Example
In this tutorial I will expand on the Microsoft Learn tutorials site. They give a great starting point for the minimum settings you need but I'll add a couple more I've found useful. See the 🔗 links at the end if you want to run through them.
Blashing - Blazing Story
Having found Blazing Story I had to try it out with some of my own Blazor Components. I thought why not use Blashing.
Blazing Story
Over the past couple of years I've been working with React and on occasion there have been a Storybook of components for the UI libraries I've been working with. This is an excellent way to have examples of the control(s) you may need to implement in your site. It gives you options to try different parameter combinations, see it in action and even grab a copy of the code needed to add it to your page(s).