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
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
The Emerging Trend of Premium Goat Leather: Softness, Sustainability, and Style Redefined
In the world of luxury materials, few options combine tactile appeal, durability, and versatility quite like premium goat leather. Once
Saffron Farming in Texas (part 3)
In the soft light of a Texas autumn morning, a field of slender purple flowers opens almost overnight. Each bloom
Wines from Texas’s Growing Wine Regions (part 2)
Stand on a high ridge in the Texas High Plains near Lubbock on a late-summer evening and the scale of
Open-Source, Self-Hosted Slack Alternatives in 2026
Reclaim Your Data, Privacy, and Control Slack transformed team communication — but at a cost. Rising per-user fees, limited data