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.NET Core Web API 36 Angular 31 JavaScript Basics 19 JavaScript Intermediate 18 JavaScript Advanced 16 TypeScript Basics 14 TypeScript Intermediate 14 TypeScript Advanced 12 Entity Framework Core 28 Dapper 16 Git & GitHub 29 Web Security (OWASP Top 10) 21 LLM Fundamentals 20 C# Fundamentals 20 Object-Oriented Programming in C# 16 C# Collections and Generics 11 LINQ 17 Asynchronous Programming in C# 17 Advanced C# 14 C# Versions 6 Solution Patterns 22 SOLID and Design Principles 12 Clean Code 13 Design Patterns 23 UML and Modeling 18 Introduction to Software Architecture 9 Clean, Onion and Hexagonal Architecture 8 Vertical Slice Architecture 6 Domain-Driven Design 12 CQRS and Event Sourcing 10 Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture 9 Modular Monolith 2 Microservices 10 UI Architecture Patterns 9 Architecture Decisions 7 System Design 15 Distributed Systems Fundamentals 11 Background Jobs and Scheduled Jobs 11 Working with Message Queues 14 Logging in .NET 10 Caching 10 Real-time Applications 9 ASP.NET Core MVC and Razor Pages 13 CI/CD Fundamentals 8 GitHub Actions 16 Jenkins 12 Web Servers and Hosting 12 Deployment Strategies 9 Kubernetes 19 Authentication and Authorization 18

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Security PART 08

Hardening the npm Supply Chain: Lifecycle Scripts, Release Cooldowns, Provenance and Trusted Publishing

Hardening the npm supply chain rests on three pillars: limiting install scripts with an allow list, letting new versions wait a few days, and removing publish tokens with trusted publishing. In this post we try npm 11 and 12's allowScripts policy, pnpm's allowBuilds and minimumReleaseAge, npm's min-release-age, npm audit signatures output and OIDC-based trusted publishing with real installs against a local registry.

8 Nov 2026 10 min 4

DevOps PART 08

An Angular Pipeline with Jenkins: Node Container, npm Cache, Headless Tests and stash/unstash

We build the Angular 22 app in a node:24 container with npm ci, ng lint, Vitest and ng build in parallel with the .NET API, and combine both into one package with stash/unstash. The npm cache volume, Vitest's JUnit reporter, budgets, the missing-package error for browser mode, not stashing a 329 MB node_modules, and parallel stage durations in Pipeline Graph View.

8 Nov 2026 9 min 4

Security PART 06

OWASP A03: Software Supply Chain Failures — NuGetAudit, npm audit and SRI

Why is A03:2025 Software Supply Chain Failures its own category? Lessons from event-stream, Log4Shell, xz, polyfill.io and the 2025 npm incidents; NuGetAudit scanning transitive dependencies on net10.0, warnings that break the build, lock files, npm audit and npm ci, SRI for CDN scripts, an SBOM with CycloneDX, provenance and Dependabot.

6 Nov 2026 11 min 14