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From 2023: It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/14

I forgot how I bumped into this, but a while ago I found this interesting 2023 post: [Wayback/Archive] It’s Time For A Change: datetime.utcnow() Is Now Deprecated – miguelgrinberg.com explaining naive (without time zone) and aware (with time zone) date time objects.

It reminded me of Delphi, where NowUTC – as Delphi does have neither naive or aware date time objects – returns  a floating point value (yes, it has a separate TDateTime type, but it represents the number of days that have passed since December 30, 1899 which in face stems from the Windows OLE Automation era* (OLE Automation is a subset of COM), see [Wayback/Archive] DateTime.ToOADate Method (System) | Microsoft Learn.

That method is mentioned in [Wayback/Archive] Why You Should Use NowUTC Instead of Now in Delphi: A Quick Guide – YouTube and Delphi deserves a way better infrastructure of date and time handling.

So this post is also a reminder to myself: figure out if there is an object oriented DateTime library for Delphi yet, and if not see if there is interest to create one similar to [Wayback/Archive] Noda Time | Date and time API for .NET by Jon Skeet.

Delphi references

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GitHub – proxykit/ProxyKit: A toolkit to create code-first HTTP reverse proxies on ASP.NET Core

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/28

Interesting: [Archive.is] GitHub – proxykit/ProxyKit: A toolkit to create code-first HTTP reverse proxies on ASP.NET Core:

Having built proxies many times before, I felt it is time to make a package. Forked from ASP.NET labs, it has been heavily modified with a different API, to facilitate a wider variety of proxying scenarios (i.e. routing based on a JWT claim) and interception of the proxy requests / responses for customization of headers and (optionally) request / response bodies. It also uses HttpClientFactory internally that will mitigate against DNS caching issues making it suitable for microservice / container environments.

Related:

–jeroen

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Side by Side user scoped .NET Core installations on Linux with dotnet-install.sh – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/04/28

For my link archive: [WayBack] Side by Side user scoped .NET Core installations on Linux with dotnet-install.sh – Scott Hanselman

Via [WayBack] DotNetKicks on Twitteru: „Side by Side user scoped .NET Core installations on Linux with  by @shanselman  #aspnet via @DotNetKicks“

–jeroen

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Alex Thissen @ Techorama Netherlands 2018: Building real world production-ready Web API’s with .NET Core

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/12

[WayBack] Alex Thissen @ Techorama Netherlands 2018: Building real world production-ready Web API’s with .NET Core

Follow [WayBack] Alex Thissen(@alexthissen) on Twitter

Pictures taken during session (likely in reverse order; needs cleanup of duplicates/blurs).

Many more [WayBack] Techorama 2018 Netherlands stuff at:

More pictures I took during sessions:

They are in reverse order of the what I attended of the [WayBack] Techorama Netherlands 2018: Schedule: Pathé, Ede, The Netherlands – See the full schedule of events happening Oct 2 – 3, 2018 and explore the directory of Speakers & Attendees.

Sessions I could archive, or find recordings of:

--jeroen

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Debugging a stackexchange memory leak while transitioning to .NET Core: by @Nick_Craver

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/01/14

Cool thread with steps (windbg) tooling and graphs: this is how you approach problem solving.

Easiest to read: [WayBack] Thread by @Nick_Craver: “Well hello there memory leak…let’s see what you are. It’s times when I type !dumpheap without an argument that cals. Alrighty, let’s see what these little guys are: Quite a bit of repetition in here – let’s root some of the […]”

Twitter thread below the fold.

[WayBack] Nick Craver on Twitter: “So let’s form our dictionary in batches EF Core will load, like this. We can lower our SQL roundtrips to n / 1000 + relevant changes. It’s more SQL trips than our original 1, but we aren’t needlessly loading a million users into memory. We load about 0.3% of that instead.… https://t.co/wgHpWgCoJH”

Tooling:

Related: Some notes/links on Windows Debugging CLR applications

A good WinDbg introduction is [WayBack] Getting Started with WinDbg (User-Mode) | Microsoft Docs.

Note that temp tables in SQL Server might look nice, but actually do not scale well: [WayBack] Lucas Trzesniewski on Twitter: “I’ve found out the following massively improves performance over queries with an IN clause with lots of parameters: – Open a transaction – Create a temp table – Bulk insert your IDs into the temp table – Inner join your query on the temp table And you only make a single query.… https://t.co/anwGSrxRqh”

–jeroen

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.NET: IHostedService – hosting services inside any .NET process

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/10/31

Have any service related stuff implement IHostedService, so it is easy to deploy it in all kinds of processes:

  • console to test
  • windows service
  • ASP.NET Core service
  • Linux host application

Peter Groenewegen ([WayBack] pgroene (Peter Groenewegen) · GitHub; [WayBack] { Think Rethink }) has some great examples and blog articles at [WayBack] IHostedService – { Think Rethink }:

Background information:

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