Things worth writing down
Notes from building software for real businesses — the decisions that turned out to matter and the ones that did not. We publish when we have something specific to say.
What HIPAA-grade hosting actually costs
A realistic breakdown of the infrastructure bill for a small healthcare application — what is genuinely required, what vendors upsell, and where the recurring cost really sits.
Reading a codebase you didn't write
Inheriting software is normal — a developer left, an agency finished, you acquired something. A method for getting oriented in days rather than months, and the three things to check before promising anything.
What a broken deploy actually costs
A file-by-file deploy left a client site live but unstyled for part of an afternoon. The fix took minutes. The lesson was about what 'deployed' means when a transfer can stop halfway.
Flutter or native: how to actually decide
The question is not which is better. It is which constraints your app actually has — and four of them decide the answer before preference gets involved.
What HIPAA requires from case management software
What decides whether software can hold protected health information: hosting, access control, audit logging, and the choices that are expensive to reverse later.