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PHP, Laravel, Node.js, React and JavaScript: application development, databases, APIs and integrations.
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Software comparisons, AI tools and automation: capabilities, limitations and questions to ask before adopting a product.
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Architecture guideLaravel
What to record, why model events are not enough, a tested hash-chained audit logger for Laravel 13, GDPR erasure with crypto-shredding, retention and packages.
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Business Technology
A practical guide for founders commissioning a website or app: the one-page brief, first-call questions, comparing proposals, contract clauses, naming OWASP ASVS and WCAG 2.2, and keeping your accounts and code in your own name.
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Resource guideAI and Automation
How to test an LLM feature before you ship it: measurable success criteria, a real-input dataset, code and LLM graders, a Python harness and promptfoo in CI.
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TutorialAI and Automation
Build an assistant that labels Gmail or Microsoft 365 email, drafts replies from approved templates and facts, and leaves sending to people. TypeScript, tested.
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Troubleshooting guideWordPress
Moved WordPress and something broke? Fix database errors, old-domain URLs, serialized data, HTTPS redirect loops and permalink 404s with WP-CLI commands.
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Architecture guideWordPress
A decision guide for moving off WordPress: signs you have outgrown it, the features you would have to rebuild, editor workflow and SEO redirect risks, and a phased plan.
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TutorialBusiness Technology
Turn on FileVault and BitLocker, check them from the command line and store recovery keys where the business, not one employee, can reach them.
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TutorialNode.js
Run slow AI jobs outside the request: idempotent job IDs, progress, retries that skip finished chunks, provider rate limits, cancellation and SSE or webhooks.
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TutorialAI and Automation
Per-user and per-tenant AI budgets with soft and hard caps, pre-flight token counts, an atomic reserve-and-settle ledger, provider spend limits and graceful degradation.
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ComparisonAI and Automation
Prompting fixes instructions, RAG fixes missing facts, fine-tuning fixes cost at volume. A decision guide with 2026 fine-tuning availability, prices and worked costs.
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Interview preparationPHP
Twelve PHP interview questions on enums, readonly properties and readonly classes, answered with code and real error messages tested on PHP 8.5.
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Architecture guideLaravel
Migrate a legacy PHP or CakePHP app to Laravel without a rewrite: one router, a shared database, a signed login bridge, tests first and one module per release.
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