FN · August 13, 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 · March 19, 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 · March 2, 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.
FM · June 30, 2025
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 · March 10, 2025
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 · January 31, 2025
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 · November 18, 2024
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 · September 26, 2024
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.