The Golden Cage: Why Building on Kit, Wix, and Squarespace Quietly Costs You Control
Convenience is the perfect lure. Kit (the thing formerly known as ConvertKit), Wix, and Squarespace sell the fantasy of a […]
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Why does the official WordPress team use proprietary Slack/Salesforce?
There is a very real, ongoing tension within the open-source community. Many open-source purists and contributors agree: using a proprietary,
What Is A Deterministic Engine and Why Do You Need This in The Age of AI?
A deterministic engine is a system that always produces the exact same output when given the exact same input. It
Why I Will Not Use Cloudflare as My Domain Registrar
Cloudflare has done something very smart with its domain business. It offers domain registration at essentially cost, which sounds like
Should you use Vercel, Cloudflare Pages or Netlify, or stick with traditional, commodity hosting?
For a large percentage of real-world websites—simple business sites, blogs, brochure pages, WordPress sites, local business presence, marketing landing pages—commodity
Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Domain Names
This portfolio perfectly bridges the exact intersection of decentralized energy infrastructure, data center bottlenecks, and regulatory oversight for private cloud
Jack Dorsey’s company Block just open-sourced Buzz
What Buzz actually is Buzz is a self-hostable desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) from Block (the company behind Square, Cash
What is “Commoditizing The Complement”?
“Commoditizing the complement” is a brilliant business strategy first popularized by Joel Spolsky, co-founder of Stack Overflow. The core idea
Escape the “Walled Garden”: Request Tracker Cloud Hosting & Managed Service Guide for People Who Hate Lock-In (Part 2)
This is part 2 of the Overview and getting started with Request Tracker 1. Easiest Option: Best Practical’s Official Cloud
What is Request Tracker (RT)? (part 1)
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