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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 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...
AI Assisted Development: You’re Not Behind, But It’s Time to Start
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...
Embracing Docker: A Journey from Hesitation to Actually Using It
I avoided Docker for years, unsure how it would improve my .NET Framework workflow. After struggling to replicate production issues locally, and some investigation; it became clear how valuable consistent environments...
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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...
19 Years Later: The Undocumented Optimizely Category Inheritance That Caught Me Out
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...
AI Assisted Development: You’re Not Behind, But It’s Time to Start
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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