Open Source SEO and Social Media Tools: Own the Boring Parts
Open source SEO and social media tools can reduce lock-in and support steady growth, but only if you budget for maintenance, security, and change.
Raymond Tec Insights
Working notes, essays, field notes, technical lessons, and opinion from Raymond Tec about building, fixing, maintaining, and using small-business technology.
Your Monitoring Needs Monitoring Too
Infrastructure monitoring is supposed to tell you when systems fail. But the monitors have dependencies, assumptions, and failure modes of their own.
WordPress Server Troubleshooting Without Throwing Money at It
WordPress server troubleshooting is less about one magic fix and more about logs, incremental changes, cache behavior, and proving the repair holds.
Sometimes the Quote Is Part of the Work
A Shopify project that looked like a homepage redesign became a lesson in discovery: what the client asks for and what the business actually needs are not always the same project.