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Multi-Tenant .NET, Part 4: Moving Day

Part 4 of 3. Surprise! It’s a bonus post for the series. What happens when you need to move to a new approach?

Thursday, August 27, 2026 | 22 minutes Read

Your PC Is a Build Agent: Self-Hosted GitHub Actions in Docker Desktop

Running a self-hosted GitHub Actions runner as a Docker Desktop container on your local machine is easy. We’ll look at the Dockerfile, the entrypoint, the compose file, and then a few things that bit me when I moved this blog’s CI onto one.

Tuesday, August 25, 2026 | 14 minutes Read

Multi-Tenant .NET, Part 3: Separate Buildings (Database per Tenant)

Part 3 of 3. Giving every tenant its own database - the strongest isolation there is. It deletes even more code than Part 2 (including the model cache key), and replaces it with a connection-string swap, a catalog database, and the joy of migrating N databases on every deploy.

Thursday, August 20, 2026 | 7 minutes Read

Multi-Tenant .NET: Shared Database With Schema Separation

Part 2 of 3. Moving each tenant into its own SQL Server schema — which lets us delete the query filter, the TenantId column, and the SaveChanges stamp from Part 1, in exchange for exactly one new thing: a schema-aware model cache key.

Thursday, July 30, 2026 | 7 minutes Read

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Photo Organizer - A Handy Little App

I needed a simple app to organizer years of digital photos into a coherent organizational structure. So I put Claude to work to create what I needed.

Thursday, July 23, 2026 | 4 minutes Read

Multi-Tenant .NET: Shared Database With Partitions

Part 1 of 3. Building a shared-database multi-tenant app in .NET with EF Core global query filters, then using SQL Server table partitioning so the database physically keeps each tenant’s data in its own drawer.

Friday, July 17, 2026 | 13 minutes Read

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Validation in FastEndpoints: Pipelines, Pitfalls, and Patterns

Before you reach the meat of your code, before you reach the business rules, before you get to the domain logic, it all starts with the request.

Tuesday, June 30, 2026 | 13 minutes Read

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The Case of the Empty IIS Deployment

Octopus Deploy reported a successful deployment. I browse to the website, and… nothing. A blank page. No errors in any of the obvious places.

Wednesday, June 17, 2026 | 4 minutes Read

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Roll for Architecture: What D&D Taught Me About Software Design

Turns out, the skills for D&D overlap quite a bit with software design

Sunday, May 31, 2026 | 7 minutes Read

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Zoomable Image - Creating a Zoom Effect

Creating a zoom in effect for images in a blog post

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 4 minutes Read

Testing in .NET with xUnit + NSubstitute + Shouldly

There’s a better stack, a better way to approach testing – and it’s been sitting in the .NET ecosystem the whole time.

Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 23 minutes Read

Give .NET Its Props - Central Package Management

You update a package in one project, but then you forget that you’re also using that package in another project. .NET has the solution for your…. solution: central package management.

Thursday, April 23, 2026 | 9 minutes Read