Clint McMahon's Blog
Clint McMahon
HI, I'M CLINT C# .NET Consultant & Software Engineer in Minneapolis I’m the founder of Parka Software, a boutique consultancy specializing in healthcare and legal tech. I help teams build, fix, and modernize systems using C#, .NET, React, Angular, Umbraco, and React Native.
August 2026
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Minneapolis has a car break-in and theft problem. This application is going to try to track occurrences when car windows are smashed or riffled through in hopes that it draws attention to the situation.
This post is about the weather widget in the upper corner of my website. The widget is part of my .Net Core website. In this post I explain how the widget works and how you can use this widget in your app.
Chat GPT and Claude continue to drive down my blog traffic. How-to posts and technical coding posts have been on a downward slope since Gen AI has gotten more popular.
I read Peter Bloem's post about the ten rules for keeping your critical thinking while using AI to code. I don't follow all of them but it's a great list to keep in mind so you don't forget how to think when you are using agentic coding.
For years I've been trying to find a single roast to become my house coffee. I've had some really great roasts, and I end up chasing those flavors. When the bag is gone I try to find more of it again.
I got my first programming job in 2000 from a job fair at the Minneapolis Convention Center after a thousand emailed resumes went nowhere.
Umbraco 13 reaches end of life on 14 December 2026 and has been security-only since December 2025. Your three options, what the upgrade to 17 involves and how long it takes.
Hotter water for a high elevation washed bean, and a cold brew batch that worked
I'm going all in on vibe coded side projects this year. So far I have a handful of applications that I've built that I never would have had time to build in the past.
I'm going all in on vibe coded side projects this year. So far I have a handful of applications that I've built that I never would have had time to build in the past.
I signed into the NYTimes.com cooking site and without me clicking anything got signed up for three of their cooking email newsletters.
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