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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.

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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.

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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.

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Frontend7 min read

Building Custom Dashboards That People Actually Use

Most dashboards are walls of charts nobody looks at. Here's how to build dashboards that surface actionable information and become part of daily workflow.

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Heritage7 min read

Reading the Landscape: Celtic Place Names and Hidden History

Across Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe, Celtic place names preserve a linguistic record of peoples and languages that have otherwise vanished. Here is how to decode the landscape and find the hidden history in the names on the map.

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Engineering8 min read

Rate Limiting Algorithms: Token Bucket, Sliding Window, and More

How rate limiting algorithms work and when to use each one. Token bucket, sliding window, fixed window, and leaky bucket explained with practical implementation guidance.

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Engineering7 min read

SaaS User Management: Roles, Teams, and Permissions

How to build SaaS user management — role-based access control, team structures, invitations, permission inheritance, and the data model that scales.

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Architecture8 min read

Service Mesh Architecture: When You Actually Need It

Service meshes solve real problems in complex microservice deployments, but they add operational weight that most systems don't need. Here's an honest assessment.

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Engineering7 min read

Service Workers and Offline-First Web Applications

Service workers enable offline functionality, background sync, and push notifications. Here's how to implement offline-first patterns that actually work in production.

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Heritage7 min read

Round Towers of Ireland: Purpose, Design, and Mystery

Ireland's round towers are among the most distinctive architectural features of the medieval landscape -- slender stone columns rising from monastic sites, their doorways set high above the ground. Their purpose has been debated for centuries.

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Engineering7 min read

Implementing Multi-Tier Stripe Billing for Routiine.io

How I built the subscription billing system for Routiine.io — Stripe integration, plan tiers, usage metering, and handling the edge cases that documentation does not cover.

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Business7 min read

Technology Due Diligence: What Investors Look For

Before writing a check, investors evaluate your technology. Here's what they look for — and what technical founders should prepare before fundraising.

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Heritage7 min read

Parish Registers: The Backbone of Family History Research

Parish registers recording baptisms, marriages, and burials are the single most important source for tracing family history before civil registration. Here is what they contain, where they survive, and how to use them.

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Heritage7 min read

Celtic Music: Ancient Roots of a Living Tradition

Celtic music is one of the oldest continuously practiced musical traditions in Europe. From the war trumpets of the Iron Age to the fiddle tunes of a modern pub session, the tradition has adapted, evolved, and survived because it was always more than entertainment — it was the sound of a culture remembering itself.

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Heritage7 min read

DNA Surname Projects: Connecting Families Through Genetics

DNA surname projects aggregate Y-chromosome results from men who share a surname, revealing which families are genetically related and which adopted the same name independently. Here's how they work and why they matter for genealogy.

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