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Your Microservices Are a Distributed Monolith and You're Not Google
I've consulted for six startups in the last two years that "needed microservices for scale." Five of…
The OnePassApps Sitemap and robots.txt: 16 Public URLs, Every Canonical, and the JSON-LD Behind Them
I work on OnePassApps, so this is our own product, and everything below is a read of our own public …
A page counter with no cookies and no analytics vendor: one Postgres function
I run three small sites: a free retro board, a family of agile tools and a site of AI guides. I want…
Why I Chose App Blocks Over Custom Pages for Shopify Tracking
When I first started helping a friend manage their Shopify store, I assumed the hardest part was dri…
Taming Shopify Post-Purchase: Building a Custom Tracking Widget
When I first started helping merchants optimize their Shopify stores, I noticed a glaring gap in the…
From Spreadsheets to Code: Calculating True Etsy Margins
When I first started selling handcrafted goods on Etsy, I did what almost every new seller does: I o…
Color Name Tool: Find the Closest CSS Name for Any Hex Code
Every designer has lived this moment: a client sends a screenshot, a brand guideline lists a hex cod…
Keep Quarter-Beat Time When a Score Has Eighth Notes
I build Pianory, a browser-based piano practice app. AI helped draft this article; I checked its cod…
SynthID remove vs. metadata: what's actually inside an AI image file (EXIF, XMP, C2PA)
If you've ever downloaded an image from an AI generator and opened it in exiftool, you've probably n…
15 pages declared lang="en". 75-98% of their characters were Han.
Fifteen pages told the browser they were English. Between 75% and 98% of their characters were Han. …
Duplicate CSV Headers in the Browser: Three Naming Rules and Where They Disagree
I work on OnePassApps, so this is a measurement of our own product in the live app, not a review of …
How to Accept USDC on Base with a Payment Link
To accept USDC on Base with PayIn, create a payment link, enable Base, and enter the receiving addre…