FM · November 3, 2025
Your site got hacked: the first five moves
The calm sequence for a compromised website — what to do in the first hour, what evidence to preserve, and the mistakes panicked owners make that deepen the damage.
FM · October 31, 2025
Still running Magento 1? What that means in plain terms
Magento 1 support ended June 30, 2020. What running a store six-plus years past end-of-life actually exposes, why patches only stretch so far, and the realistic paths off.
FM · September 30, 2025
How Drupal versions work (and which ones are safe in 2026)
The Drupal 5-through-11 map in plain language: what a major version is, what end-of-life actually means, and where every branch stands right now.
FN · September 9, 2025
Counts as the contract: a millions-of-nodes migration story
War story from a Drupal 7 to 10 migration measured in millions of nodes: reconcile every entity count every run, migrate in increments against a live site, cut over in minutes.
FM · August 13, 2025
Keeping an online store alive: why commerce maintenance is different
A store is a website plus money in motion — payment APIs, tax rules, shipping rates, and PCI obligations that keep changing whether or not anyone maintains the site.
FN · July 28, 2025
The canoe plan: what a real project plan contains
Plan a web project like a Boundary Waters route: a real map, honest distances, layover days, a float plan someone else holds, and a trip sized to the paddlers you have.
FM · July 15, 2025
What happens when you stop maintaining a website
The decay curve of an unmaintained site: nothing for months, then forms and integrations quietly fail, then security exposure — slow at first, sudden at the end.
FN · July 2, 2025
The portage method: how we carry heavy projects
Migrations and rescues are portages — you can't carry everything at once, so the craft is in the staging: inventory the loads, carry in passes, count everything at the far end.
FM · June 30, 2025
The .NET sites time forgot
ASP.NET Web Forms sites from the 2000s and 2010s still run half the Midwest's back offices. What 'the framework is done evolving' means, and the realistic paths forward.
FM · June 20, 2025
What a website maintenance plan actually includes
The five jobs a real maintenance plan covers — updates, backups, monitoring, small fixes, and a human who answers — and the questions that reveal a hollow one.