https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/ Software Engineer with 10+ years shipping production systems — from C# / .NET microservices and cloud infrastructure to React front-ends and mobile apps. I take features from inception to monitoring in production. en-GB https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/split-lip-adventures-is-live/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/split-lip-adventures-is-live/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMT Split Lip Adventures is up: the new home of firefighter and world-record adventurer Scott Butler, rebuilt from a 2007-era site builder into a fast Next.js site on Cloudflare. And a note on how this kind of work is becoming my bread and butter. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/webp-image-optimisation-split-lip/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/webp-image-optimisation-split-lip/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT A client's gallery page was crawling. The cause wasn't the code — it was 286 MB of untouched phone photos, one of them loaded as a thumbnail. Here's the twenty-line fix. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/darras-index-new-look/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/darras-index-new-look/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:44:52 GMT Darras Index has swapped its dark, pink-accented look for something lighter and calmer. Here is the thinking behind it, and why such a dramatic change turned out to be easy to ship. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/why-ive-started-writing/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/why-ive-started-writing/ Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT I've started writing things down: achievements, struggles and the odd professional opinion. Along the way I found the /now page movement and got myself listed on nownownow.com. Here's the why. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/built-to-run-without-me/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/built-to-run-without-me/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT Three client sites, built, handed over, and now running without me: client-owned, editable by them, zero ongoing cost. What I'm learning about the difference between shipping code and delivering a product. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/how-my-job-changed-in-a-year-of-ai/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/how-my-job-changed-in-a-year-of-ai/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT A little over a year ago AI was a clever chatbot I asked the odd question. Now it runs most of my day. An honest look at what genuinely changed, what's overhyped, and what it means for juniors. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/my-first-ironman-70-3/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/my-first-ironman-70-3/ Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT Months of worrying about cut-offs, a cancelled swim, 33°C heat — and a finish line in Luxembourg. My first IRONMAN 70.3 wasn't the race I planned for. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/london-to-brighton-my-longest-ride/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/london-to-brighton-my-longest-ride/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT A couple of weeks before my first IRONMAN 70.3, I took on the London to Brighton Bike Ride — the longest ride I'd ever done. It went better than I dared hope. (I did lose four bottles.) https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/keep-the-endpoint-boring/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/keep-the-endpoint-boring/ Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT The best API endpoint does almost nothing. How keeping endpoints minimal — and finessing it with the Result pattern at Covertime — made every handler read the same way. https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/why-i-built-this-site/ https://danielhadaway.dev/blog/why-i-built-this-site/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:52:00 GMT Almost none of the developers I interview have a website. That's most of the reason this one exists, plus a hedge against a harder job market, and a bit of fun.