FN · August 10, 2026
deadnorth.io under the hood: static Astro with React islands, markdown for content, Cloudflare Workers for the form and the daily radar, no CMS, no database, near-zero hosting bill.
FN · August 10, 2026
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.
FM · August 10, 2026
If nobody has edited your site in a year, the CMS is all cost and no benefit. When a static site is the honest answer, and the questions that tell you which side you're on.
FM · August 10, 2026
The real dividing line isn't quality, it's structure: WordPress for sites that are mostly pages and posts, Drupal for sites that are really databases wearing a website.
FM · August 10, 2026
Boring means known failure modes, deep help pools, and a future rescuer who can find the light switch. Why proven-and-common beats new-and-clever for most organizations.
FM · August 10, 2026
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 · August 10, 2026
Headless splits your CMS from your front end — powerful when multiple things consume your content, double the maintenance when only a website does. How to tell which you are.
FM · August 10, 2026
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.