Clint McMahon's Blog
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.
Latest Posts
I created a Google Form and Google List to try and create a community Instagram directory of folks out shooting with Ricoh GRs.
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.
After years of posting photos only to Instagram I decided to build a dedicated photoblog at photos.clintmcmahon.com. This is the story of why I built it, how I used AI to migrate 250 old Tumblr posts and why the photos — not the code —...
I bought a Canon PIXMA G620 photo printer to start printing family pictures at home and getting them up on the walls where they belong.
Some clients don't allow AI in their codebase. Here's what working without it looks like in 2026, and why I think the trade-off is worth it.
Over the last couple of years, my opinions have changed about the term software engineering. In this blog post, I share what I see as the difference between software engineering and software development in the age of AI.
enerally, you can use reader mode to get around these paywalls to view the article. But the other day I mistakenly stumbled on a new way to do it for the Star Tribune: if you scroll down to the bottom of the page as soon as the content...
This is my blog post about how I'm merging the MN Coffee Map, NYC Coffee Map and Chicago Coffee Map into a single Expo codebase.
Over time my git branches on my local machine get out of control. Here's the command to delete all your local git branches except main and develop.
I couldn't dial in my espresso consistently until I discovered that I should be preheating my portafilter. Here's why preheating your portafilter changes everything for home espresso on the Breville Barista Pro.
A local news broadcaster redirects users with ad blockers to a third-party error page with oddly personal messaging.
Introducing my 2024-2025 coffee journal of 26 bags of coffee brewed at home with a Chemex and Barista Pro espresso machine, documented in a Field Notes notebook.
The first phase of combining NYC Coffee and MN Coffee into a unified platform, starting with database consolidation and schema design.
Learn how to set up GitHub Actions with a self-hosted runner to automatically deploy your .NET website to a Windows IIS server when code is pushed to main.