Senior Software Engineer
Building quality software. Solving complex problems.
Deploying a real-time chat feature is rarely as simple as "write the hub, start the connection, and ship it." After a full day of chasing ghosts in SignalR, JavaScript event handlers, and an nginx reverse proxy, here is what actually happened — and what finally made it work.
Over the past few days, I tackled a series of production issues on my .NET 10 Razor Pages blog while simultaneously adding SEO enhancements and user management features. What started as mysterious upload failures evolved into a deep dive into nginx configuration, deployment automation, Entity Framework Core migrations, and full-stack feature development. This post documents those challenges, solutions, and the lessons I learned along the way.
Hello, I’m Scott. I’ve been writing code forever — web apps, Windows services, cybersecurity tools, you name it. I even released a 3D game in 2021 called Raid on Scorpion Island. I like building cool things, keeping the code clean, and AI.
An action-packed aerial combat and strategy game, published on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, and the Microsoft Store.
Contributions to ASP.NET Core were featured in the official .NET Conf 2025 community appreciation segment.