FN 09 · August 10, 2026
The manifesto behind the rescue practice: abandonment — not hackers, not hosting — is the thing that actually kills small organizations' websites, and every part of Dead North exists to make it survivable.
FN 03 · August 10, 2026
New job, old Drupal site, no documentation? How to tell which Drupal version you're running, the five checks to run first, and when a $1,500 assessment beats guessing.
FN 02 · August 10, 2026
Ghosted by your web developer? The first 48 hours, in order: domain, hosting, CMS access, backups — what to secure, what to check, and when it's time for a rescue.
FN · August 10, 2026
Ten minutes, no passwords, no developer: WHOIS your domain, check your DNS, read your site's generator tag — and know your registrar, host, platform, and two expiry dates.
FM · August 10, 2026
How organizations end up unable to leave their web vendor, what the lock-in patterns look like from inside, and the contract lines that prevent all of it.
FM · August 10, 2026
The seven questions that separate a real professional from the next bad chapter — and the answers that should end the interview early.
FM · August 10, 2026
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 · August 10, 2026
The checks anyone can run in ten minutes — no developer required — to find out whether anyone is actually watching your site, before an emergency answers the question for you.
FM · August 10, 2026
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 · 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
The complete transfer list when a website changes hands — what the departing developer delivers, what the owner verifies, and how both sides walk away clean.
FM · August 10, 2026
The $1,500 flat assessment, itemized: what gets examined, what the written findings contain, and what you can do with the report whether or not you hire us.
FM · August 10, 2026
The failure order of an unmaintained store: shipping rates drift, tax falls behind, then a payment API retirement stops revenue outright. Where to look first.
FM · August 10, 2026
A calm order of operations for an outage: confirm it's really down, check the boring causes first — domain, SSL, hosting bill — and know when it's time to call someone.
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.
FM · August 10, 2026
The honest decision framework for a struggling site: when a rescue-and-stabilize saves real money, when a rebuild is genuinely right, and how to spot a rebuild quote that's really a ransom.
FM · August 10, 2026
Domain, hosting, code, content — the four things that constitute owning a website, who holds each one right now, and how to take them back without drama.
FN 01 · August 9, 2026
The honest sequence for getting a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 11 — stabilize first, assess second, migrate third — from an engineer who has moved millions of nodes without losing a record.