There Is No Best Coffee Roaster
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.
Clint McMahon's Blog
Thoughts on .NET development, software consulting, and the occasional coffee shop discovery from a Minneapolis-based developer.
Latest posts
How We Used To Get Jobs - The Job Fair
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 End of Life: December 2026
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.
AI Accelerated My Side Projects
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.
Signed into NYTimes.com Cooking website - got signed up for three newsletters
I signed into the NYTimes.com cooking site and without me clicking anything got signed up for three of their cooking email newsletters.
Smoke day in Minneapolis
Today is the first big smoke day of 2026. The past five years we've had some brutal streaks of smoke days from all the smoke coming south from Canada and northern Minnesota but this one is extra bad.
Tracking Today's Record Highs
Today's Record High is a website I created that tracks the record highs and lows for major weather stations and cities across the United States.
How to Evaluate a Software Consultant
The questions to ask a software consultant in an initial conversation that separate real experience from a good sales pitch.
Ricoh GR Instagram Directory
I created a Google Form and Google List to try and create a community Instagram directory of folks out shooting with Ricoh GRs.
I Still Can't Trust AI
AI gave me two different brew recipes for the same coffee in two separate chats. When I pushed back it changed its answer — not because I was right, but because I pushed. That's why I can't trust AI.