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Field notes from real UK stores
Things I run into running ecommerce stacks for UK merchants — patterns, gotchas, and the occasional half-formed thought worth writing down.
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Generating Dungeons with a Room Graph (Building Delve, Part 2)
How Delve builds a fresh dungeon each run: scatter rooms, connect them with a graph and corridors, then prove every room is reachable — headless, before rendering a single tile.
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Learning Godot from Scratch: The Core Concepts (Building Delve, Part 1)
I write web software, not games. The core Godot 4 ideas everything else builds on — nodes, scenes, signals, physics, animation — learned by building a 3D dungeon crawler.
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Don't Be Your Team's 2FA Proxy
A fortnight off, and back to a queue of Slack DMs asking for 2FA codes. Why 'shared 2FA' isn't really 2FA — and the day-one access setup that fixes it.
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Why a WordPress Dev Built Tinkernotes in Astro, Not WP
I build WordPress and WooCommerce for a living, yet this site runs on Astro and Cloudflare Pages. An honest build log — the trade-offs, cost, and what I miss.
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Shopify vs WooCommerce UK: The Real 3-Year Cost (2026)
Five UK merchant scenarios costed end-to-end in GBP — platform fees, payments, the app or plugin stack, and the dev time both sides like to hide. With calculator.