FN · July 29, 2026
Long Strange Trip XII: Building the robot (2026)
Part twelve: V.I.N.CENT — turning fleet-era conviction into an observability agent watching 327 production sites, and what building your own instruments does to a builder.
FN · July 23, 2026
Long Strange Trip XI: The fleet era (2024–2025)
Part eleven: backend engineering for media properties measured in millions of monthly visits, and the shift from thinking in sites to thinking in fleets.
FN · July 10, 2026
V.I.N.CENT: watching 327 sites without watching 327 dashboards
Notes from building fleet observability: archive what the platform discards, judge each site against its own history, and keep the loud tier quiet enough to mean something.
FN 05 · June 8, 2026
Taking over a Drupal site from a previous developer: the technical checklist
The developer-to-developer handoff checklist for inherited Drupal: composer and git state, drush access, config export status, and what to do when there's no repo at all.
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 · June 19, 2025
Do you need a staging site?
If your website takes payments, runs on a CMS, or has ever broken during an update — yes. What staging actually is, and the low-cost ways to get one.