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CodingAug 1, 2026

On coding: choosing boring tech for speed

I almost rebuilt on a trendy stack because Twitter said so. Postgres, a monolith, and hosted auth were "boring" but alr…

MarketingJul 25, 2026

On marketing: testing hooks before ad spend

Before ads, we posted five tweet hooks about the same offer—problem-first, outcome-first, contrarian, story, question.…

SEOJul 25, 2026

On SEO: long-tail docs that brought qualified traffic

Blog posts were generic. We rewrote docs as how-to guides tied to real jobs—"how to reconcile Stripe payouts in QuickBo…