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A solo, six-month build: turning 20 years of staffing logs into structured venue intelligence, 40,000+ SEO pages, and smarter quote flows.
A compatibility-first modernization story: migrating a 15-year-old procedural PHP admin into a Laravel + Unpoly hybrid without downtime or a full rewrite.
I stopped silent network hangs in my Python crawler by layering signal-based hard timeouts over curl_cffi and adding IP rotation to preserve throughput.
A wide day: redesigning the proposal workspace, enabling remote collaborative editing in SpeechEdit, and adding live demos to this site.
Fixing rehired staff disappearing from rosters, then building a client proposal feature into this site.
A verified mail cutover with correct BCC delivery, migration-aware health checks, and backup recovery tests.
Adding a PDF download path so form submissions can be saved and shared as documents.
A single change routing public form notifications to the right inbox.
Simplifying how neighborhoods are edited and adding a complete practice environment for Lake Forest POA.
A 20-commit day finishing the mail server rollout, fixing the mobile update path, and adding account recovery.
A mail provisioning fix plus two planning docs for small-team quality of life and mobile diagnostics.
Thirteen mail fixes: lifecycle support, per-domain servers, folder isolation, and thread-marker preservation.
A mail audit, a delivery overhaul, application eligibility, and calendar status indicators.
Adding recovery and validation to the book processor, then running a structured density experiment on the output.
A new project for processing books across formats, with an ingest pipeline, structured storage, and handoff docs.