https://gdhami.net Khaled Gadhami — .NET, Angular, and the lessons that survived production. https://gdhami.net/blog/gitglass-a-vs-code-style-repo-viewer-under-10-kb-of-vanilla-js.html https://gdhami.net/blog/gitglass-a-vs-code-style-repo-viewer-under-10-kb-of-vanilla-js.html Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 I wanted readers to browse a demo repo without leaving the article. Nothing embeddable was small enough, so I built one: tree, tabs, highlighting, themes, snippets and guided tours in under 10 KB of JS, with no dependencies and no backend. https://gdhami.net/blog/your-api-ignores-the-user-who-gave-up.html https://gdhami.net/blog/your-api-ignores-the-user-who-gave-up.html Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 ASP.NET Core can tell when a caller disconnects. Most handlers never ask. What CancellationToken actually does, where to pass it, and where to be careful. https://gdhami.net/blog/kill-the-boolean-soup.html https://gdhami.net/blog/kill-the-boolean-soup.html Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 isLoading, error, data — three flags, eight combinations, half of them lies. Discriminated unions make the impossible states impossible, and the compiler enforces it. https://gdhami.net/blog/the-cache-stampede-you-have-not-met-yet.html https://gdhami.net/blog/the-cache-stampede-you-have-not-met-yet.html Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 GetOrCreateAsync on IMemoryCache lets every concurrent request run the factory on a cold key. HybridCache's single-flight fixes the stampede you only meet under load. https://gdhami.net/blog/integration-tests-that-lie.html https://gdhami.net/blog/integration-tests-that-lie.html Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 A mocked repository test proves your mock works. Testcontainers runs the real SQL Server and RabbitMQ inside the test run, so green means what you think it means. https://gdhami.net/blog/life-without-zonejs.html https://gdhami.net/blog/life-without-zonejs.html Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Going zoneless removes Angular's magic change detection. What actually breaks, why it breaks, and the migration order that keeps the app working at every step.