Engineering7 min read
Mobile App Performance: Where the Real Bottlenecks Hide
Where mobile app performance bottlenecks actually hide — startup time, rendering, memory, network, and the profiling techniques that reveal the real problems.
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Heritage5 min read
Ogham: The Ancient Celtic Writing System
Ogham is the earliest known writing system used in Ireland. Carved on stone edges, it recorded names, boundaries, and a language that connects to deep Celtic roots.
Engineering7 min read
Automating Purchase Orders: From Request to Fulfillment
Manual purchase order processes are slow, error-prone, and invisible. Here's how to automate the PO lifecycle from requisition through receipt and payment.
Engineering8 min read
Salesforce Integration Patterns: Lessons From Routiine.io
What I learned integrating Routiine.io with Salesforce — OAuth flows, data synchronization, conflict resolution, and why bi-directional sync is harder than it sounds.
Heritage7 min read
Stone Circles of Scotland: Astronomy and Ancient Ritual
Scotland is home to some of the oldest and most enigmatic stone circles in the world. From the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney to the recumbent stone circles of Aberdeenshire, these monuments encode astronomical knowledge and ritual purpose.
Heritage7 min read
Gaelic: The Linguistic Bridge Between Ireland and Scotland
Irish and Scottish Gaelic are not just similar languages -- they are two branches of the same tongue, separated by a narrow sea and fifteen hundred years of divergence. Here is the story of how one language became two, and what that tells us about the connection between Ireland and Scotland.
Engineering7 min read
Dispatch and Scheduling in BastionGlass: Real-Time Job Management
How I built the dispatch and scheduling system for BastionGlass — managing technician assignments, route optimization, and real-time job tracking for mobile auto glass repair.
Heritage7 min read
Hogmanay: Scotland's New Year Traditions
Hogmanay is more than a New Year's Eve party. Scotland's elaborate traditions of fire, first-footing, and fellowship stretch back centuries and continue to shape how Scots welcome the new year.
Frontend8 min read
Building Search With Autocomplete: Frontend to Backend
Implement search autocomplete from end to end — debounced input, API design, result ranking, keyboard navigation, and the UX details that make search feel great.
Business7 min read
Software Maintenance Planning: Budgeting for the Long Term
Building software is the easy part. Maintaining it costs 60-80% of total lifetime spend. Here's how to plan and budget for software maintenance realistically.
Heritage8 min read
Anglo-Saxon DNA: How Much of England Is Really Germanic?
The Anglo-Saxon migration transformed England's language and culture, but ancient DNA reveals that the genetic impact was substantial without being a total replacement. Here's what the latest research tells us about how much of modern England's gene pool traces to Germanic settlers.
Heritage7 min read
Census Records: Snapshots of Your Ancestors' Lives
Census records capture entire households at a single moment in time -- names, ages, occupations, birthplaces, and family relationships. For genealogists, they are irreplaceable windows into the lives of ordinary people.
Heritage9 min read
Boudicca: Celtic Queen Against Roman Empire
In AD 60, Boudicca of the Iceni led the most devastating revolt in the history of Roman Britain, burning three cities and killing tens of thousands. Her rebellion remains one of the defining moments of Celtic resistance against imperial power.
Heritage5 min read
The Tuatha De Danann: Gods, Magic, and Memory
The Tuatha De Danann were Ireland's divine race — masters of art, war, and magic who retreated into the fairy mounds when the Gaels arrived.
DevOps7 min read
Canary Deployments: Testing in Production Safely
Implement canary deployments to validate releases with real traffic — traffic splitting, metric-based promotion, automated rollback, and observability requirements.