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Practical articles for business owners and engineering leaders: how to get real speed from AI coding tools, when you need senior technical leadership, how to rebuild a website without losing search traffic, and how to use AI and handle health data responsibly.
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Choosing a Store Location? Count the Foot Traffic Before You Sign the Lease
How to compare store locations with real counts of pedestrians, cyclists and cars, by hour and by direction, instead of a broker's estimate. What to count, when, and how a camera does it for you.
- 02
A Shopping Cart Is Easy. Checkout Is Where the Law Lives.
What it takes to build an online store's checkout properly: holding stock, sales tax after Wayfair, cards, PayPal, Alipay, checks and purchase orders, cancellations and returns, in a case study with flowcharts.
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Count the Cars and People in Any YouTube Video, Free, in Your Browser
Paste a YouTube link to a live street camera, a city walk or your own footage, and count every pedestrian, cyclist and vehicle that crosses a line, by direction and by the minute. Free, no sign-up, nothing uploaded.
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Nine People for Twelve Months, or Three for Three: An AI Team vs. a Traditional Team
A case study in what changes when AI writes most of the code: a nine-person Scrum team against three senior engineers directing AI agents on the same rewrite, and what it takes to make it work.
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Rental Booking Websites: Live Availability and No More Double Bookings
Kayaks, bikes, camper vans or boats: what a rental business's booking site needs so customers can reserve online at any hour, without double bookings, surprise fees or a phone call.
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Sales Tax for Online Stores: Where Your Customers Live Decides What You Owe
How online sales tax works since South Dakota v. Wayfair: economic nexus thresholds, stacked local rates, exemption certificates, and the rounding detail that costs a cent per order.
- 07
Sold Something You Don't Have? The FTC's 30-Day Rule for Online Stores
What US law requires when an online order can't ship on time, and how to build stock holds, backorders, cancellations and refunds so your store never breaks the rule.
- 08
The Project Playbook We Use on Every Project, Free to Copy
Eight stages from a client's first request to a planned, estimated backlog: the goal, new build or conversion, the stack, content, media, the block diagram, work stories and estimates in AI time and Dev time. Copy it for your own clients.
- 09
The Safest Card Number Is One Your Store Never Has
Why an online store should send customers to the payment provider's own page: no card numbers to steal, the shortest PCI self-assessment, and refunds that still work.
- 10
How Busy Is That Road Right Now? Count the Cars on Any California Traffic Camera, Free
Pick any of 2,190 live Caltrans traffic cameras on a map and watch every car, truck, bus, motorcycle, cyclist and pedestrian get counted as it passes, by direction and by the minute. Free, in your browser, no sign-up.
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Try a New Nose, Fuller Lips or a Facelift on Your Own Face, Free and Live in Your Browser
Open your camera and see a slimmer nose, fuller lips or cheekbones, a face or neck lift, whiter teeth and smoother skin live on your own face. Free, no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded.
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How to Check Your Website's Security for Free (and Fix What It Finds)
What attackers check first on any website, how to see the same thing yourself in about 20 seconds with a free checker, and the one-line fixes for the most common problems.
- 13
Restaurant Online Ordering Without Giving Away a Third of Every Order
Delivery apps bring new customers but take a large cut of every order. How a restaurant's own ordering page works, what it costs, and how to move regulars to it without losing anyone.
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Before You Add an AI Chat Assistant to Your Website
What I learned adding an AI assistant to my own site: ground it in your content, write its rules, test it like software, cap the cost, and be honest about privacy.
- 15
Do You Need a Fractional CTO? Seven Signs, and What One Actually Does
A fractional CTO gives a growing company senior technical leadership a few days a month. Seven signs you need one, what the first 90 days look like, and how to choose well.
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Don't Buy a Brochure: 11 Working Websites You Can Try Right Now
Most small-business websites are digital brochures. These eleven working examples book appointments, take orders, quote jobs and run memberships. Try them, then decide what yours should do.
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How to Move Off WordPress Without Losing Your Google Rankings
A practical checklist for migrating a WordPress site to a modern stack while keeping every old address, comment and image working, so search rankings carry over.
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What HIPAA Actually Asks of Your Practice Website
Appointment forms, patient portals, email notifications and tracking pixels: a plain-language guide to the parts of a medical or dental practice website that HIPAA cares about.
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Your AI Coding Pilot Worked. So Why Isn't Your Team Shipping Faster?
AI coding assistants make individual developers faster, but teams often don't ship sooner. The bottleneck moves to specification, decomposition and review. Here's how to fix each one.
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