Posts

All the articles I've posted.

• Internet Archive: my unofficial legacy-system debugger

  13 Jul, 2026

  For a decade, the Wayback Machine has helped me recover dead documentation, reconstruct old websites and understand legacy systems. This is a thank-you to one of the web’s most useful public tools.

• Recovering a 2009 Facebook game — and making it survive the next shutdown

  13 Jul, 2026

  A small preservation project turned Who Has The Biggest Brain? into a self-contained part of my website: the game, emulator, preview and contributor history all live in the repository.

• SEO is not enough: AI agentic search optimization is the future

  12 Jul, 2026

  Search is moving from ranked links to synthesized answers. Marketers and developers now need to make websites accessible, understandable, and worth citing by Claude, Grok, GPT, and Gemini.

• The Rise and Fall of the $5 Droplet

  10 Jul, 2026

  DigitalOcean was every freelancer's first cloud. In 2026 it's an AI company whose headline metrics no longer count small customers. What changed, the real numbers — and where the $5-droplet crowd actually went.

• The death of SaaS is overstated. The unbundling isn't.

  8 Jul, 2026

  Agentic AI won't kill SaaS wholesale — but it is hollowing out the seat-priced, business-logic-over-a-database middle. From someone who builds the custom agent workflows that replace it: what actually gets unbundled, what endures, and why per-seat pricing was the tell all along.

• The GoDaddy tax: what a domain should really cost — and where to actually buy it

  8 Jul, 2026

  A .com is a commodity — the same name, the same DNS, everywhere. So why does GoDaddy renew it at ~$22 when at-cost registrars charge ~$10? A look at the domain-registrar pricing spread, the teaser-and-renewal trap, and how to stop overpaying.

• How I added a whole language to a 200-page site with an AI agent — the prompts and the code

  6 Jul, 2026

  Adding English to a website used to be a five-role, multi-month project. I did it to a 200-page site in one afternoon with an AI agent. Here are the actual prompts, the code patterns, and the one thing the machine still can't do.

• Deploy a website in minutes, for £0 — the GitHub + Cloudflare recipe

  3 Jul, 2026

  Star a repo, connect it to a free Cloudflare account, set one build command, and every git push ships your site to a global CDN — HTTPS and all — for nothing. The exact 5-step recipe, with my side project NamLoop as the guinea pig (works for any site).