Alexandre Nedelec (@TechWatching)

From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment

In this article, I will explain how I built a website to generate Christmas Stories my almost 5-year-old daughter using C# and AI related technologies (GitHub Spec Kit, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft.Extensions.AI libraries). Context It’s the Christmas se...

Dec 17, 2025 · 7 min readtechwatching.hashnode.dev

Deploying a Nuxt Static Website on Azure with Pulumi

The other day, to learn and experiment with GitHub Copilot Agent mode, I built a small website in Nuxt that provides an interactive calendar view of developer conferences around the world. I was happy with the result and I wanted to deploy it on Azur...

Apr 6, 2025 · 10 min readtechwatching.hashnode.dev

.NET Aspirations - Use ASP.NET Core HTTPS Development Certificate

It's a good practice to use HTTPS in your local development environment to closely match the production environment and prevent future HTTPS issues. In a previous article, I discussed how to set up HTTPS on a web application with an ASP.NET Core API ...

Mar 18, 2025 · 5 min readtechwatching.hashnode.dev

Week 11, 2025- Tips I learned this week

.NET tip of the week: use the .NET Upgrade Assistant tool to upgrade your project to a new version of .NET In case you don’t know, when you want to upgrade to a new version of .NET, instead of manually going through all your csproj files to change th...

Mar 17, 2025 · 3 min readtechwatching.hashnode.dev

.NET Aspirations - Embracing OpenTelemetry

In my previous .NET Aspire blog post, we talked about using .NET Aspire to orchestrate the different parts of our web application. However, the .NET Aspire dashboard did not show any telemetry (traces, metrics, or structured logging) because we did n...

Mar 12, 2025 · 7 min readtechwatching.hashnode.dev

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From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment

Deploying a Nuxt Static Website on Azure with Pulumi

.NET Aspirations - Use ASP.NET Core HTTPS Development Certificate

Week 11, 2025- Tips I learned this week

.NET Aspirations - Embracing OpenTelemetry

Alexandre Nedelec

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Alexandre Nedelec's blogs

From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment

Deploying a Nuxt Static Website on Azure with Pulumi

.NET Aspirations - Use ASP.NET Core HTTPS Development Certificate

Week 11, 2025- Tips I learned this week

.NET Aspirations - Embracing OpenTelemetry

Alexandre Nedelec

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Alexandre Nedelec's blogs

From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment

Deploying a Nuxt Static Website on Azure with Pulumi

.NET Aspirations - Use ASP.NET Core HTTPS Development Certificate

Week 11, 2025- Tips I learned this week

.NET Aspirations - Embracing OpenTelemetry

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Alexandre Nedelec

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Alexandre Nedelec's blogs

From Spec to Santa: My C#‑Powered Christmas Story Generator Experiment

Deploying a Nuxt Static Website on Azure with Pulumi

.NET Aspirations - Use ASP.NET Core HTTPS Development Certificate

Week 11, 2025- Tips I learned this week

.NET Aspirations - Embracing OpenTelemetry