Technical blog by
Dom Reilly
Tech Lead and Senior Software Engineer specialising in .NET, Blazor, Optimizely, Azure, platform modernisation and technical leadership.
Senior Software Developer and Tech Lead working with .NET and Blazor. Sharing real-world problems, tech, and lessons learned - not always just development. Views expressed here are my own and do not represent my employer.
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The Architecture Behind the Blog: From Zero to Production
What started as an all in one Blazor blog gradually evolved into something quite different. From moving the data layer to MySQL and rebuilding the backend in Go, to Dockerising the applications and putting Caddy in...
Read moreI spend my life changing software, so why do I feel so uncomfortable with change?
As developers, we spend our careers helping organisations embrace change through migrations, upgrades and modernisation. So why is personal change so much harder? A reflection on moving house, letting go of memories,...
Read moreThe Most Valuable Column Nobody Thinks About
While investigating some unexpected data, I was reminded of a lesson that's followed me throughout my career: timestamp columns never seem important until the day you need one. It's a small design decision that...
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Tech Lead and Senior .NET Developer with a long standing passion for building software. This blog documents lessons learned, technical discoveries, and recurring problems encountered while working across the .NET...
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While working on an Optimizely CMS 12 project, I encountered an unexpected issue where categories assigned to a parent page were automatically inherited by newly created child pages. After ruling out custom code and...
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AI is becoming part of the modern developer workflow, but it is not replacing developers. This post explores how I’m using AI to reduce friction, generate tests, sanity check ideas, speed up repetitive tasks, and learn...
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