Posts

• 18 May 2020

  Supervised v. Unsupervised v. Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction

  Machine Learning powers a lot of what we do. Currently there are three main categories of machine learning, supervised l...
• 26 Apr 2020

  Implementing Minimax Tree Search

  Game playing is one way to learn machine learning strategies. A most game playing bots involve some searching mechanism....
• 18 Apr 2020

  Getting Started with Machine Learning Using Keras

  This blog post continues building on concepts introduced in Building Your First Neural Network series. It’s not ne...
• 12 Apr 2020

  Build Your First Neural Network: Part 3

  This post is the third in a series introducing you to neural networks. Feel free to read Part I and Part 2 before diving...
• 06 Apr 2020

  Useful NumPy Operations for Machine Learning

  Professionally, I’m a C# web app developer. On the side I’m investing my time into Machine Learning, and tha...
• 29 Mar 2020

  Build Your First Neural Network: Part 2

  This post is the second in a series introducing you to neural networks. Feel free to read Part I before diving into this...
• 24 Mar 2020

  Build Your First Neural Network: Part 1

  This post is first in a series introducing neural networks. If you find this article helpful, you can continue onto Part...
• 15 Mar 2020

  Hope in the Midst of a Virus

  Everything I’ve written on this blog has mainly been technical in nature. I’m a programmer, I like programmi...
• 08 Mar 2020

  One Strategy to Unit Test Giraffe HttpHandlers in F#

  Please see git repo for working code example. Samuele Resca’s article on Testing F# Web Service was a great refere...
• 29 Feb 2020

  Examples Using HttpClient in F#

  I like F#! It’s got a lot of useful features that helps me write better software. At times I have a harder time fi...
• 23 Feb 2020

  Thoughts on How I Embrace and Deal With Reality

  One of my Christmas presents was Principles by Ray Dalio. It’s him describing the principles that have helped make...
• 16 Feb 2020

  F#’s MailboxProcessor

  One of the things I recently came across in F# is the MailboxProcessor. It struck my interest and I wanted to take some ...
• 10 Feb 2020

  Exploring the Elmish Todo App

  A little while ago I wrote an article entitled Getting Started with Elmish. It was me getting my feet wet with the langu...
• 02 Feb 2020

  C#’s WhenAll and Exception Handling

  C#’s WhenAll method helps save time when processing lists of tasks. When thinking about exceptions, I couldn&rsquo...
• 19 Jan 2020

  Reviewing NDepend

  I received a free 1-year license in exchange to use and review NDepend. Rest assured, these thoughts and opinions are my...
• 19 Jan 2020

  Functional Fundamentals: Recursion

  I’m learning functional programming, so this article is one in a series of functional oriented blog posts. Click l...
• 12 Jan 2020

  Thoughts On Becoming More Open Minded

  I’m a fairly intelligent person. Through school and early career people have generally regarded me as being a comp...
• 05 Jan 2020

  The State of TheSharperDev: 2020

  At the start of 2020, I wanted to spend some time recapping what happened in 2019 and thinking about what 2020 is going ...
• 31 Dec 2019

  How to use REPL and Scripting in F#

  Lately I’ve been looking into using F# in Jupyter Notebooks. I downloaded it and attempted to follow the tutorials...
• 29 Dec 2019

  Getting Started With BenchmarkDotNet

  BenchmarkDotNet is a great library for performance testing on the dotnet platform. On this blog I’ve used it to be...
• 26 Dec 2019

  Getting Started with Elmish

  I’ve been learning F# lately and have been wondering what the F# in the browser experience is like. There are seve...
• 20 Dec 2019

  Introduction to F# Type Providers

  This post is one of many in the FSAdvent Calendar. A December’s worth of blog articles all about FSharp. Many than...
• 14 Dec 2019

  The Cost of Abstracting a List in C#

  In software development, there’s a tradeoff between design and optimization. As a general rule of thumb, most abst...
• 03 Dec 2019

  The Difference Between IEnumerable and IQueryable Explained

  This post is part of this year’s C# Advent Series. Which counts down to Christmas with two C# articles published e...
• 30 Nov 2019

  Functional Fundamentals: Currying

  This is the second article on this blog discussing functional programming concepts. Here is a link to the first, Pure v....
• 23 Nov 2019

  Benchmarking For Loop Variants

  I read Thomas Levesque’s recent post about Using foreach with an index. I’ve definitely run into the problem...
• 16 Nov 2019

  Explaining Implicit Conversion Operators in C#

  Sometime ago at work, I discovered a class that could automatically convert to and from a string whenever it was needed....
• 14 Nov 2019

  Under the Hood of C# Alias Types and Namespaces

  C# has two different ways to refer to a lot of its fundamental types. String or string, Boolean or bool, Int32 or int, c...
• 09 Nov 2019

  Explaining Async Programming With Pizza

  Asynchronous programming. It means so many things to so many people. When first learning async programming, it’s e...
• 02 Nov 2019

  How to Create a .NET Core API CI Action Using Github Actions

  Github Actions is a new tool from Github designed to automate workflows for github projects. There are numerous things t...
• 26 Oct 2019

  EF Core’s AddAsync v. Add Method

  Since learning about async programming with C#, if I’m presented with an option of async v. non-async method I&rsq...
• 19 Oct 2019

  Add Swagger to a .NET Core 3.0 API

  If you’ve ever interacted with an API, you know that it can be messy. Does it support json or xml? How should I co...
• 12 Oct 2019

  How to Write a Brainfuck Interpreter in C#

  I’ve always been somewhat interested in how programming languages are written. Last month I bought my version is i...
• 05 Oct 2019

  .Net Core 3.0 AddControllers() Method

  In case you haven’t heard, .Net Core 3.0 has now been released! So many things are now available as part of this r...
• 29 Sep 2019

  C# Design Patterns: The Visitor Pattern

  My last article introduced expressions in C# and explained a bit why they were useful. Today I’m going to build up...
• 22 Sep 2019

  An Introduction to C# Expression Trees

  Expression Trees are an interesting C# language feature that you might not have knowingly used before. Expression Trees ...
• 15 Sep 2019

  The Cost of Synchronous Async Methods

  C# 5 introduced the async/await keywords and dramatically increased how easy it was to program asynchronously. The first...
• 08 Sep 2019

  Pure v. Impure Functions

  Pure and Impure functions is a very important distinction in functional programming. Most of my university and early wor...
• 31 Aug 2019

  Launching “The Sharper Dev” Blog!

  Welcome! For the past several months I’ve been blogging at medium and dev.to. I thought the time was right to fina...