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Your health check endpoint is lying to you

A /health route that returns 200 when the process is alive isn't monitoring anything. Here's the outage that taught us the difference.

ReliabilityMonitoring
3 min read

I told a client to stop blogging. Their traffic went up.

Most small businesses are publishing content nobody searches for and ignoring the five pages that actually make them money.

MarketingSEO
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Your staging environment has production's secrets, and nobody remembers why

Staging often inherits production credentials by accident, not by design. Here's how it happens, why it's dangerous, and the boring fix nobody wants to do.

SecurityInfrastructure
2 min read

Your AI vendor is a single point of failure, and you probably don't know it

Betting your customer support, sales copy, or product on one AI provider is riskier than most owners realize. Here's what actually happens when it goes down.

AIBusiness
1 min read

The best code is the code you delete

Our most productive afternoon last month ended with a negative diff. Here's why removing code beats adding it.

EngineeringSimplicity
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How we build sub-second Next.js sites

The performance principles behind every site we ship — and how to hit a 90+ Lighthouse score without sacrificing design.

Next.jsPerformance
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Ship boring technology on purpose

The most exciting decision on our last project was choosing the most boring database we could find.

ArchitectureEngineering
1 min read

Downtime is a revenue problem, not a status page

Why framing outages in dollars — not percentages — changes how teams prioritize reliability.

ReliabilityMonitoring
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AI won't replace your engineers — it'll promote them

A client asked if AI would take their team's jobs. The honest answer: it already took part of mine, and I don't miss it.

AIEngineering
1 min read

What your status page says about you

You can tell a lot about a company from its status page — not when everything's green, but from how it behaves mid-incident at 2 a.m.

ReliabilityTrust
1 min read

Splitting the bill is a UX problem, not a math problem

The math of splitting a dinner bill is trivial. So why does it ruin the end of a good night?

ProductUX
1 min read

Every analytics dashboard lies a little

Your marketing dashboard is confident, colorful, and slightly wrong. That's not a bug — it's the nature of measuring humans.

MarketingAnalytics
1 min read

Dark mode is a courtesy, not a feature

Somewhere along the way, dark mode became a checkbox on a roadmap. It should be a habit — like holding the door.

DesignFrontend
1 min read

Your database is not a message queue

It works in the demo. It works for a month. Then Black Friday arrives and your 'queue' takes the whole app down with it.

ArchitectureBackend
1 min read

The 3 a.m. test for managed infrastructure

There's only one infrastructure question that really matters: when it breaks at 3 a.m., who wakes up?

Managed ITReliability
1 min read

Caching is just remembering well

Every hard problem in computing has a shortcut named after it. This one is just the art of not doing the same work twice.

PerformanceEngineering
1 min read

EVs are software with wheels

Pop the hood of a modern electric vehicle and the most interesting part isn't the motor. It's the code.

EVProduct
1 min read

Security is the feature nobody sees

No customer has ever emailed to thank you for not getting breached. That's exactly why it's so easy to underfund.

SecurityTrust
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