Why I am adding local-first development to my work
For years, my work has centred on helping creators and small businesses build a home for their ideas online. I have built websites, eCommerce systems and tools that live on ā¦
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I learn and document as I go. This blog documents what I build, what I break, and what I learn along the way - from backend logic to AI experiments.
From Overwhelm to Ownership: The Story Behind Building MTDify
If you had told me a year ago that I’d end up building a full bookkeeping application and that I would purposely avoid turning it into a hosted SaaS - I probably would have laughed. I’ve built websites for years, developed tools, taught workshops, and handled my fair share of ā¦
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Tools You Can Run Yourself
Today I wanted to focus on writing about tools you can run yourself. I want to explain how these tools can be a practical alternative to subscription-heavy software. For many ā¦
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Local-First vs Cloud-First ā Key Differences
The software industry has spent the last decade shifting toward cloud-first design. Everything moved online: documents, tasks, calendars, finances, writing, even basic tools that used to run entirely on local ā¦
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How AI Enhances Independent Web Development
When I first asked ChatGPT to come up with an outline for an article on how AI enhances web development, it produced this utopian type content that made me laugh. ā¦
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Building the Mini eCommerce Builder System
As I learned Django, most of my progress came from repetition. Immediately after completing my full-stack developer training, I spent a year setting up project after project, rebuilding the same ā¦
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What Are Self-Hosted Tools?
There has been a massive increase in ongoing subscription plans from platforms and third-party dependencies. Self-hosted tools are quietly becoming one of the most empowering alternatives available. They offer something ā¦
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Cluster Pages & FAQs: Building Trust Through Content
Every business wants to be found online, but too often websites end up as a collection of scattered pages: a home page, a services page, maybe a blog or two. ā¦
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How I Learn Django With AI (My Current Workflow)
After finishing my first full Django site, Stream English, I realised something important - I was not just learning Django anymore. I was learning how to learn with AI. At ā¦
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How I Investigate Django Errors Without Panic
I used to dread seeing the white screen of doom. The Server Error (500) page that meant my whole Django site had gone down. One small mistake could make everything ā¦
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Behind the Frontend: My Tailwind v4 and Template Setup
Structure matters to me, and not just in the backend, but in how things look and feel on the page. Tailwind CSS v4 gave me a chance to rethink how ā¦
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AI Search Readiness vs. AI SEO vs. AI-Powered SEO
Search is evolving faster than most business owners realise. A few years ago, SEO meant optimising keywords, writing blog posts, and building backlinks. Today, with Google’s AI Overviews, Bing Copilot, ā¦
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The Rise of AI Search: Why Businesses Must Focus on AI Search Readiness
Quick SummaryAI search readiness didn’t appear overnight. It is the result of a long evolution in how search engines interpret and deliver information. Over the past decade, we have moved ā¦
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Format Content for AI (Make Your Website Easy to Digest)
You can have cluster pages, FAQs, and schema in place but if your content isn’t formatted clearly, AI tools won’t touch it. AI is like a scanner, it grabs neat, ā¦
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From High Street to AI Search: Winning Local Customers in 2025
You run a local business so you already know that the high street is not what it used to be. Shoppers search before they stroll, and in 2025 that search ā¦
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Apply Schema Markup (Make Your Content Machine-Readable)
Here is something most small businesses may not realise. Search engines and AI don’t “read” your site like a human does. They scan the structure. Schema markup is the behind-the-scenes code ā¦
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How To Write FAQ Snippets (Turn Questions Into Traffic)
If cluster pages are the backbone of AI search readiness, Frequently asked questions or FAQs are the connective tissue. They take the exact questions your community is asking and put ā¦
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How Local Businesses Can Get AI Search Ready
If you run a local business like a café, gym, salon, or dentist, you probably rely more on foot traffic than clicks. So here’s the question: does getting your website ā¦
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Build Cluster Pages (The Foundation of AI Search Readiness)
Most business blogs fail not because the content is bad but because it’s scattered. One post about email marketing, another about sales funnels, then a random update about a holiday ā¦
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Why Django (and Why I Kept Going)
When it came to learning backend development, Django wasn’t a choice. It was the only framework offered in my software developer course, and at first, it felt like learning to ā¦
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Organising My Django Blog for AI Search
Quick SummarySearch used to be about keywords. AI search is about connections. Instead of treating every post as a standalone piece, search models like Google SGE and Bing Copilot look ā¦
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Behind the Build: My Django Backend Setup
I like structure. I like knowing where things belong and how they connect, which is probably why Django stuck with me. In this post, I walk through how I structure ā¦
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What Iām Learning: From Astro to AI Tools
If there Is one thing that keeps me interested in development, its that there is always something new to learn and something I thought I understood until I tried it ā¦
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Building for AI Search Starts With Structured Data
Quick SummaryIf you want search engines and AI assistants to truly understand your website, structured data is the foundation. In this post, I walk through why structured data matters for ā¦
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Decided to Find Out What AI Search Readiness Actually Means
Over the last few months, I keep hearing about AI Search Readiness that sound half panicked, half excited so I decided to find out what it actually means. Turns out ā¦
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