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BlogInsights & Engineering
Thoughts on commerce engineering, performance optimisation, and building fast, scalable storefronts.
Gary's Coffee Shop, 22 Stories, and 587 Sec+ Questions
How I'm using the method of loci — a 2,500-year-old memory technique — and a custom-built study platform to get through CompTIA Security+ SY0-701.
Recent Posts
One-Page Booking for a Beauty Salon — at £0/Month
How we built CMH Beauty's booking system on a free-tier stack — Vercel, Supabase, Resend, and Stripe — with an Apple-style one-page checkout feel and zero monthly infrastructure cost.
Emily's Pet Services: Bringing a Trusted Local Dog Trainer Online
Helping Emily Penrose — a highly regarded force-free dog trainer in the Oswestry area — bring her business online with a professional website, a built-in booking calendar, and WhatsApp enquiries that go straight to her phone.
Open-Sourcing Our Composer Vendor Checker
We built a Composer plugin to audit 30+ vendor modules during a Magento 2.4.5 to 2.4.8 upgrade. It worked well enough to clean up, harden, and put on Packagist. Here is what it does and why we built it.
Rebuilding the Magento Developer Documentation from the Ground Up
We took over the Magento Association developer documentation project and are actively rebuilding it — 25 guides, 47 module references, 5 learning paths, and a full documentation site. Here's what we're building and why.
Why We're Getting Security+ and CREST CPSA Certified
We're going through the CompTIA Security+ and CREST CPSA certification process. Here's why, and what it means for the e-commerce stores we build and test.
