Web Design & Mobile Apps: From One Browser to the iPhone Duo
From one browser to the iPhone Duo: 20+ years of web design and mobile app development, every shift explained in plain English, plus a foldable readiness checklist.
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Notes on agentic development.
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
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The races that only appeared at 2:17am—and the tests we added
The races that only appeared at 2:17am—and the tests we added
A “harmless” async job doubled invoices once, then broke pricing caches; we fixed it with idempotency keys and race tests.
Read moreAI for Small Business: ChatGPT, Claude & Your First AI Staff
A plain-English guide to AI for small business: ChatGPT vs Claude, what AI agents are, cron jobs, and a 30-day plan to build your first AI staff.
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Applied-AI in regulated ops is an audit-and-kill-switch problem
Applied-AI in regulated ops is an audit-and-kill-switch problem
One bad model output isn’t the incident—un-auditable decisions are. Guardrails need traceability and safe degradation.
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Guardrails aren’t policies; they’re runtime circuits you can trip
Guardrails aren’t policies; they’re runtime circuits you can trip
We shipped an AI agent with “safe mode” vibes—then a bad prompt loop ate budgets. Kill-switches beat hope.
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llms.txt is an interface contract, not a SEO add-on
llms.txt is an interface contract, not a SEO add-on
A single wrong assumption in llms.txt turned our answer engine into a hallucination machine—here’s how we validate the contract.
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