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Things we learned the hard way, written down so you don't have to.

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FIELD NOTES· JASWINDER00 · FEB 18, 2026 · 1 MIN

Why we still bet on Drupal in 2026 — and where we’d reach for WordPress instead.

The honest side-by-side breakdown we wish someone had handed us in 2018. Content modeling, accessibility, performance, plugin ecosystems, and the org-fit question nobody talks about.

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Recent posts

Recent posts.

We publish roughly twice a month. Long posts only — if it can be a tweet, we don't write it.

OPS FEB 12 1 MIN

Our hosting runbook: what ‘managed’ actually means at Kohlisys.

Patching cadence, backup retention, the on-call rotation, the alert thresholds. The whole document.

CASE NOTE FEB 4 1 MIN

What a $90k SaaS replacement actually costs to build (with numbers).

The full spreadsheet from a field-services engagement. Hours, rates, what we'd do differently.

DRUPAL JAN 28 1 MIN

D7 → D10: a checklist we actually use, after 14 migrations.

The full pre-flight, migration day, and post-launch checklist. Print it out, tape it to the wall.

WORDPRESS JAN 21 1 MIN

The 9 plugins we keep on every WordPress site we maintain.

And the 38 we tend to remove. Plus our reasoning, plugin-by-plugin.

BUSINESS JAN 14 1 MIN

Why we decided not to grow past nine people.

The math, the offers we turned down, and what happened to the agencies that didn't.

FIELD NOTES JAN 3 1 MIN

‘Boring’ technology won 2025. Here’s what we picked, and why.

Our 2026 stack, the alternatives we rejected, and the one new bet we're making this year.

Archive

Older work, still relevant.

The exact 12-point checklist we run before taking on a Drupal rescue project.

Why we charge for discovery, and how it makes both sides do better work.

What 99.9% uptime actually means: a thirteen-year hosting post-mortem.

The case for Laravel over Symfony, written by someone who’s shipped both.

How we structure a 12-week build so the client knows what to expect each Friday.

508 compliance for non-government clients: what’s actually required, and what isn’t.

Why we still write CSS by hand in 2025 (and what we use Tailwind for).

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