Ottorino Bruni

iPantry – Food Inventory I’m excited to share iPantry, my latest iOS app a simple but powerful tool to manage your pantry and groceries more effectively. My wife and I kept forgetting what we had in the fridge, buying the same products twice, or throwing away expired food. I couldn’t find an app that was […]

Introduction Every day, when building or maintaining our ASP.NET Core APIs, we often deal with returning basic responses like 200 OK or 404 Not Found. It works the client gets a response, the server does its job, and we move on. But here’s the thing: we usually don’t put much effort into improving the way […]

Introduction In Part 1 of this series, we explored the foundational types and interfaces behind collections in C# and .NET, such as IEnumerable<T>, ICollection<T>, IList<T>, as well as common types like arrays, List<T>, Queue<T>, Stack<T>, and Dictionary<TKey, TValue>. We also discussed trade-offs and practical use cases to help you make better choices when working with […]

Introduction When writing C# code, most of us tend to stick with the basics List<T>, arrays, maybe a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> when needed. They’re familiar, flexible, and get the job done in many scenarios. But the .NET framework provides much more. The System.Collections namespace (and its generic and specialized variants) offers a wide range of collection […]

Introduction In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to build a simple uptime monitoring tool using Azure Functions, Logic Apps, and .NET all running on the Azure free tier. With just a few lines of C# code and a basic Logic App, we created a serverless solution that checks whether a website or […]

Introduction Recently, I needed a simple way to check whether my personal website was up and running at specific times during the day. I started looking into free uptime monitoring services online, but most of them required creating an account something I wasn’t really interested in doing just for a quick check. As a long-time […]

Introduction As a seasoned software developer focused on cloud applications, I’ve always harbored a passion for gadgets and mobile devices. My journey in mobile development started in the early days, crafting applications for Nokia phones using J2ME, and later evolved to iOS development since the first iPhone release. My Smartwatch Journey Being deeply embedded in the […]

Introduction to Podman: The Docker Alternative If you’ve been using Docker in your .NET projects, you might have heard about Podman—a container engine that offers a similar experience but with some unique benefits. Podman is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Docker, and the best part? It works without a background daemon, making it […]

Speech & Audio To Text Offline is out – transcribe voice messages privately and offline I’m happy to announce the release of my latest iOS utility:Speech & Audio To Text Offline a simple tool that converts voice messages (from WhatsApp, Telegram, Voice Memos, and more) into text, completely offline, with no internet, no cloud, and […]