Engineering7 min read
API Documentation That Developers Love
How to write API documentation that developers actually want to read. Practical patterns for reference docs, guides, and examples that reduce support burden.
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Heritage7 min read
Balnagown Castle: Seat of the Clan Ross Chiefs
Balnagown Castle in Easter Ross was the ancestral seat of the Clan Ross chiefs for over four centuries. Here is the history of the castle, the family who built it, and what happened when they lost it.
Engineering7 min read
ERP Reporting: Building Reports That Actually Drive Decisions
Most ERP reports are data dumps that nobody reads. Here's how to build reporting that surfaces the information decision-makers actually need, when they need it.
Security7 min read
Tenant Isolation in SaaS: Security and Performance
Tenant isolation determines whether a bug, a performance spike, or a security vulnerability in one tenant's environment can affect another. Here's how to get it right.
Architecture7 min read
SPA vs MPA: Choosing the Right Rendering Strategy
Single-page apps and multi-page apps solve different problems. Here's how to choose the rendering strategy that matches your application's actual requirements.
Heritage6 min read
Ancient Irish Mythology: The Cycles That Shaped a Culture
Irish mythology is not fairy tales. It is a sophisticated literary tradition preserved by monks, encoding centuries of cultural memory in story form.
Engineering7 min read
Building a Quoting Engine for the Auto Glass Industry
How I built BastionGlass's quoting engine — vehicle lookups, parts catalogs, labor calculations, and insurance pricing that produce accurate quotes in seconds.
Heritage9 min read
Celtic Britain Before the Romans
Before the legions arrived, Britain was a Celtic island of powerful tribes, hillforts, druidic religion, and long-distance trade. The pre-Roman British Celts built a complex civilization that Rome struggled to subdue and never fully controlled.
Business7 min read
Outsourcing vs In-House Development: The Honest Trade-Offs
Neither outsourcing nor in-house development is universally better. Here's a framework for making the decision based on your actual situation, not ideology.
Engineering7 min read
React Native vs Flutter: A Developer's Honest Comparison
An experienced developer's honest comparison of React Native and Flutter for production mobile apps — performance, ecosystem, hiring, and which to pick for your project.
Heritage7 min read
Tartan Day: Celebrating Scottish Heritage in America
Every April 6th, Tartan Day celebrates the Scottish contribution to American life. From its origins in the 1980s to the New York City parade, here's the story of America's Scottish holiday.
DevOps9 min read
Zero to Production: My Nuxt + Vercel Deployment Pipeline
The actual configuration, gotchas, and decisions behind deploying a Nuxt 4 app with SSR, prerendering, and a content module to Vercel — including the sqlite issue that cost me an afternoon.
Heritage8 min read
Viking DNA in the British Isles: The Genetic Evidence
The Viking Age transformed the political map of the British Isles, but how much did it transform the gene pool? Ancient and modern DNA studies reveal a complex picture of Norse genetic impact — significant in some regions, surprisingly modest in others.
Frontend7 min read
Data Visualization for the Web: Charts, Graphs, and Dashboards
Build effective data visualizations for web applications — choosing the right chart types, library selection, performance with large datasets, and dashboard design.
Architecture8 min read
Modular Monolith: The Architecture Nobody Talks About
Microservices get the conference talks. Monoliths get the criticism. The modular monolith quietly solves most of the problems both create.