FM · June 2, 2026
Should you leave Drupal? An honest decision guide
Sometimes the right upgrade is a different platform. The factors that actually decide it — team, content model, budget-over-time — from someone with no horse in the race.
FN · June 1, 2026
Long Strange Trip IX: Guardrails (2022–2023)
Part nine: standardizing Behat tests across an agency — how one project's safety net became shop infrastructure, and why process you leave behind outlives code you wrote.
FM · May 29, 2026
Drupal 10 to 11: the gentle jump, and the December deadline
Drupal 10 reaches end of life in December 2026. The move to 11 is the easiest major upgrade in Drupal's history for a healthy site — here's the checklist and the catch.
FN · May 22, 2026
Long Strange Trip VIII: Millions of nodes (2021–2022)
Part eight: the defining project — a monolithic Drupal 7 application, millions of nodes, rebuilt as Drupal 10 while the site kept publishing. The memoir angle: what carrying it was like.
FN · May 15, 2026
The maintainer ledger: what an open source module costs and pays
Maintaining a Drupal module running on ~97 production sites: the real costs (releases, issue queue, testing every core major) and the real returns — none of them money.
FN · May 14, 2026
Long Strange Trip VII: The migration years (2020–2021)
Part seven: Minneapolis agency work as sole technical lead on enterprise Drupal portfolios — what changes at scale, and what stubbornly doesn't.
FN · April 28, 2026
When not to hire us
Five situations where hiring this practice would be the wrong call — the honest sort we run at the start of every inquiry, published so you can run it yourself.
FN 09 · April 16, 2026
Nobody should lose a website because one guy stopped answering email
The manifesto behind the rescue practice: abandonment — not hackers, not hosting — is the thing that actually kills small organizations' websites, and every part of Dead North exists to make it survivable.
FM · April 13, 2026
Avoiding the website hostage situation
How organizations end up unable to leave their web vendor, what the lock-in patterns look like from inside, and the contract lines that prevent all of it.
FN · April 10, 2026
Long Strange Trip VI: Leaving Fargo (2020)
Part six: seven years at the Fargo shop end in the strangest year there was — what the valley installed for good, and what moving to Minneapolis was actually for.