FN 08 · August 10, 2026
A retrospective on 2013–2020: building native Android and iOS apps with real-time GPS in North Dakota, standing up AWS before it was the default, and the lessons that still run every project.
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
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.
FN · August 10, 2026
Maintaining a Drupal module running on 90+ production sites: the real costs (releases, issue queue, testing every core major) and the real returns — none of them money.
FN · August 10, 2026
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.