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Security6 min read

Starting a Vulnerability Disclosure Program

A vulnerability disclosure program gives security researchers a safe way to report bugs. Here's how to set one up that protects your users and your reputation.

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Heritage8 min read

Archaeogenetics: Where Archaeology Meets DNA

Archaeogenetics combines ancient DNA analysis with archaeological evidence to reconstruct human history with unprecedented precision. Here's how this interdisciplinary field works, what it has already revealed, and where it's headed.

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Heritage7 min read

Highland Games: The Origins of Scotland's Athletic Tradition

The Highland Games are more than caber tossing and bagpipes. They descend from a tradition of competitive physical trials used by Scottish chiefs to select warriors, messengers, and bodyguards — a martial culture that survived the destruction of the clan system to become one of Scotland's most recognized cultural exports.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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