Race Conditions in WooCommerce: A Costly Oversight
Avoid race conditions in WooCommerce or face steep production costs.
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Notes on agentic development.
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
I built an AI that can't raise its price on you
Cloud AI is cheap right now because it's subsidized. That won't last. So I built Hearth — a free, private AI that runs on your own computer, where the price is fixed at free.
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Surprising failure modes cause WooCommerce checkouts to fail frequently.
Read moreClaude Code, Cursor, Copilot, four API keys — and no idea what your AI costs
Claude Code in one terminal, Cursor in another, a Copilot tab, and four API keys you forgot you made — and no idea what any of it costs. I built a free, open tool that answers one question for developers and vibe coders: what is AI actually costing you?
Read moreArchitectural Simplicity: Lessons from a Fortune 500 Client
Over-engineering can sink projects; here's how we avoided that pitfall.
Read moreThey banned Claude Fable 5 in a weekend — and proved the whole point of Hearth
A U.S. government letter switched off Anthropic's most powerful AI overnight. "Run AI locally" is the right fix — but it shouldn't require learning Ollama and quantization. That's exactly why I built Hearth.
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