Senior Software Engineer
Building quality software. Solving complex problems. Well over 20 years of experience.
Since 9/21/2026, I’ve been making a series of focused improvements to the site to make it easier to discover content, better optimized for sharing, smoother to edit, and more useful in the admin area. The updates touched post presentation, SEO, chat moderation, live analytics, and the dashboard.
It's been a busy few weeks since mid-September. Here's a rundown of the bigger changes that have landed on the site.
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.