Category: C# Code
Install Chrome MCP for Claude Desktop in a single script
If you have ever sat there manually clicking through a UI, copying error messages, and pasting them into Claude just to get help debugging something, I have good news. There is a better way. Chrome MCP gives Claude Desktop direct access to your Chrome browser, allowing it to read the page, inspect the DOM, execute […]
Read more →Stop Claude Guessing. Force It to Debug Like an Engineer.
If you are doing 20 builds before finding the real issue, the problem isnot intelligence. It is workflow design. Claude defaults to probabilistic reasoning. It produces the most likelyexplanation. That is useful for writing. It is disastrous for debugging. You must force it into instrumentation mode. This article shows exactly what to configure, where to […]
Read more →Simple Guide to Publishing Your Code on GitHub
GitHub is not just a code hosting platform. It is your public engineering ledger. It shows how you think, how you structure problems, how you document tradeoffs, and how you ship. If you build software and it never lands on GitHub, as far as the wider technical world is concerned, it does not exist. This […]
Read more →
Building a Better Code Block for WordPress: CloudScale Code Block Plugin
If you run a technical blog on WordPress, you know the pain. You paste a markdown article with fenced code blocks, Gutenberg creates bland core/code blocks with no syntax highlighting, no copy button, no dark mode. You end up wrestling with third party plugins that haven’t been updated in years or manually formatting every code […]
Read more →
The Blog Post That Erased $30 Billion from IBM
Anthropic published a blog post on Monday. Not a product launch, not a partnership announcement, not a keynote at a major conference. Just a simple blog post explaining that Claude Code can read COBOL. IBM proceeded to drop 13%, its worst single day loss since October 2000, with twenty five years of stock resilience gone […]
Read more →
Vibe Coding: AI Can Write Code But It Cannot Own the Consequences
AI is a powerful accelerator when problems are well defined and bounded, but in complex greenfield systems vague intent hardens into architecture and creates long term risk that no amount of automation can undo. 1. What Vibe Coding Really Is Vibe coding is the practice of describing intent in natural language and allowing AI to […]
Read more →
Darwinian Architecture Philosophy: How Domain Isolation Creates Evolutionary Pressure for Better Software
Darwinian Architecture Philosophy How Domain Isolation Creates Evolutionary Pressure for Better Software After two decades building trading platforms and banking systems, I’ve watched the same pattern repeat itself countless times. A production incident occurs. The war room fills. And then the finger pointing begins. “It’s the database team’s problem.” “No, it’s that batch job from […]
Read more →Iterating through the contents of the ROT (running objects table) using C#
Back in the day I had to do quite a bit of COM / .Net interop. For some reason (and I cannot remember what it was), I need to be able to enumerate the COM running objects table (ROT). I think it was to do with createboject/getobject and trying to synthesis a singleton for an […]
Read more →High Performance Timer
Below is a sample class containing a high performance timer. Example usuage: }
Read more →