Damien Guard

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Damien Guard writes about software development, .NET, typography, pixel fonts, vintage computing, and personal projects.

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VTX5000: Part 5 - Rendering #SoftwareDevelopment #PixelArt #VintageTech
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May 31, 2026
VTX5000: Part 4 - Communications #SoftwareDev #RetroComputing #DotNet
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May 6, 2026
VTX5000: Part 3 - Software ROM #SoftwareDevelopment #VintageComputing #DotNet
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Apr 15, 2026
VTX5000: Part 2 - Hardware #Hardware #RetroComputing #Tech
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Mar 30, 2026
VTX5000: Part 1 - Prism, Prestel and Teletext #RetroComputing #TechHistory #VintageTech
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Mar 13, 2026
Sell to Guernsey - An Overlooked Opportunity for UK Sellers #Business #Ecommerce #UK
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Dec 9, 2025
HTML5 Video Cheatsheet: Optimizing videos for the web #WebDev #HTML5 #Video
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Dec 5, 2025
The Art of Amiga lettering #Amiga #RetroComputing #Typography
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Dec 4, 2025
Transactions in the MongoDB EF Core Provider #SoftwareDevelopment #Database #DotNet
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Oct 25, 2025
Queryable Encryption with the MongoDB EF Core Provider #Database #Security #DotNet
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Sep 22, 2025
Lazy Loading with EF Core Proxies #DotNet #SoftwareDevelopment #Coding
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Apr 2, 2025
Enhancing content articles in Nuxt3 #WebDev #Nuxt #Content
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Feb 14, 2025
Generated Excerpts for Nuxt3 Content #SoftwareDevelopment #Nuxtjs #WebDev
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Aug 1, 2024
Nuxt Content v1 content.db database & file size #SoftwareDevelopment #DotNet #WebDev
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May 14, 2024
Email form sender with AWS Lambda, Brevo & reCAPTCHA #SoftwareDevelopment #CloudComputing #EmailMarketing
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Apr 25, 2024
A blog comment receiver for Cloudflare Workers #Cloudflare #SoftwareDevelopment #WebDev
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Oct 24, 2023
Email form sender with Nuxt3, Cloudflare, Brevo & reCAPTCHA #WebDev #Nuxt #Cloudflare
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May 31, 2023
Extracting files from Tatung Einstein disk images #RetroComputing #DiskImaging #SoftwareDevelopment
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Feb 13, 2023
Rendering content with Nuxt3 #WebDev #Nuxt #JavaScript
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Feb 10, 2023
A quick primer on floppy disks #RetroTech #FloppyDisk #Computing
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Feb 8, 2023
Adding reading time to Nuxt3 content #SoftwareDevelopment #Nuxtjs #WebDev
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Feb 7, 2023
Estimating JSON size #SoftwareDevelopment #JSON #Programming
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Mar 22, 2022
Using variable web fonts for perf #WebFonts #Performance #Typography
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Dec 3, 2021
Migrating from OpenTracing.NET to OpenTelemetry.NET #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenTelemetry #DotNet
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Nov 29, 2021
Developing a great SDK: Guidelines & Principles #SoftwareDevelopment #SDK #Programming
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Aug 5, 2021