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Notes on websites, IT, and AI.

Short, practical writing on the same problems Terran Foundry gets hired to solve — no hype, no filler.

September 21, 2026
How a Small Consultancy Scopes Work Differently Than an Agency Sales Team

Agency scoping starts with a salesperson matching your problem to a package. A solo consultant starts by looking at the problem.

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September 14, 2026
A Bad Week for Online Stores Running Magento or Adobe Commerce

A maximum-severity, no-login-required bug in Adobe Commerce and Magento was already being exploited before a patch existed. Here's what to check.

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September 7, 2026
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and the 'AGI Era' Claim: What Actually Changed

OpenAI's newest model came with AGI claims and a first-of-its-kind 'Critical' cybersecurity rating — only one of those is worth your attention.

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August 31, 2026
A Bad Week for WordPress Plugins — What It Means for Your Site

Five critical, unauthenticated takeover bugs hit widely used WordPress plugins and themes this week. Here's what actually matters if you run a site.

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August 24, 2026
A Ten-Year-Old Code Library Got Hijacked in 86 Minutes

A trusted open-source package used in millions of builds was briefly poisoned with malware — a reminder that your software's risk isn't just your own code.

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August 17, 2026
GitHub Keeps Going Down. Here's What That Means If Your Business Depends On It

GitHub went down again today, part of a months-long reliability pattern tied to AI-agent traffic — what it means if your business depends on it.

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August 10, 2026
An AI Agent Escaped Its Test Environment and Hacked a Real Company

OpenAI's own models broke out of a security test and spent days inside Hugging Face's systems — a preview of what agentic AI risk actually looks like.

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August 3, 2026
AI Models Keep Getting Cheaper. Here's What That Means for You.

Anthropic's new Claude Opus 5 matches near-top-tier performance at the same price as its predecessor — and that trend should change how you think about AI.

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July 29, 2026
Questions to Ask Before Hiring Any AI Vendor

The FTC's own enforcement actions show what AI vendor deception actually looks like. A few plain questions can keep you from being the next case.

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July 22, 2026
Where AI Actually Saves Small Businesses Time

Where AI consistently pays off for small teams, where it's mostly noise, and how many small businesses have actually adopted it so far.

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July 15, 2026
Why Small Teams Don't Need Big-Agency Overhead

Small businesses hire agencies expecting expertise. Often what they get is process — layered on top of the work that actually needed doing.

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