Investigating CPU spikes for ASP.NET on Windows

Ever found yourself looking at the w3wp.exe process eating 80% CPU and wondering "what the heck is ASP.NET (Core) doing"?

How long do you think this code will run?

We have just spent the last 24 hours fixing a nasty bug in production.

22 Things We're Awesome At

Things we do wrong at Jitbit

1) We still receive all errors via email

A Quick Note on Being Self-funded

I'm probably biased but I've always been a strong opponent of the VC-backed model and the "Silicon Valley" way of doing things - when a big "exit" is the ultimate goal everyone aims at.

Coding is procrastination for founders

When you have a small startup, you don't have enough hands for everything. Neither you nor the team. Not only that - your brain also tries to avoid tedious tasks, preferring to engage in fun and interesting ones instead. The benefit of being overwhelmed is there's always plenty to choose from.

How to switch to remote in 1 day

Most remote work guides I see during these days of COVID-19, are all about optimizing for remote work in a remote company where everyone will keep working remotely forever. I haven't yet seen any realistic, simple, unsexy and "down to earth" guides on how to urgently switch a "traditional" old-school corporation to remote in 1 day.

How B2B Software Sales Really Work

Why Managers Make more Money than Engineers

Programmers often wonder, why executives make more money than developers. How come "John the manager" gets paid more than me, who's doing all the work?!

C# Ternary Operator with no "Else"

Here's a little C# hack I'd like to share, might be really useful to other devs too since it's a very common pain in all languages, not just .NET.