FN · March 19, 2026
Long Strange Trip V: The polyglot years (2018–2019)
Part five: shipping .NET and PHP side by side to Red River Valley businesses, and how serving a small market's whole economy makes platform tribalism impossible.
FN · March 18, 2026
Promotion math: why 20% plus 10% is 28%
Discount stacking runs on sequential math and evaluation order — why combined promotions come out smaller than expected, and the one setting that turns them off entirely.
FN · March 9, 2026
Long Strange Trip IV: The person who answers (2017–2018)
Part four: what seven years as a project lead actually trains — estimation as honesty, translation as the real deliverable, and being the name attached when things break.
FN 04 · March 5, 2026
What Drupal maintenance actually costs in 2026 (US rates, real numbers)
Drupal maintenance pricing in 2026, with actual numbers: $99 commodity plans, $150–$1,850/mo small-studio programs, and $16k+/yr agency care — what each tier really includes.
FM · March 2, 2026
When a React app won't compile anymore
JavaScript projects rot faster than any CMS: why a two-year-old untouched React build fails, the triage order that gets it building again, and when to stop resuscitating.
FN · February 19, 2026
Long Strange Trip III: Standing up the cloud (2015–2017)
Part three: building AWS architecture from nothing in the mid-2010s, when 'the cloud' stopped being a buzzword and became the job — and what infrastructure work does to a builder's mind.
FM · February 16, 2026
Choosing your next developer after a bad experience
The seven questions that separate a real professional from the next bad chapter — and the answers that should end the interview early.
FM · January 27, 2026
Migrating a store without losing orders
What must survive a commerce migration — order history, customer accounts, SKUs, URLs — what can't come along (saved cards), and the cutover pattern that protects revenue.
FN · January 21, 2026
Long Strange Trip II: GPS in the bones (2013–2015)
Part two: shipping native mobile apps with GPS at their core from Fargo — and what building for devices in the field teaches that browser work never will.
FN · January 9, 2026
Long Strange Trip I: First set (2013)
Part one of a thirteen-part professional memoir: walking into a Fargo software shop in 2013, the Drupal 7 era in full swing, and learning that shipping is the only teacher.