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Practical writing on software, infrastructure, and the decisions that make technology cheap or expensive to live with. No thought leadership.

2 Oct 2026
The bill you do not see until year two
Quotes cover the build. They rarely cover the hosting, the renewals, the dependency upgrades, and the small changes that arrive every month afterwards. Here is what to budget.
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25 Sept 2026
WordPress or a custom build: an honest decision guide
The answer is not always custom, and a firm that says otherwise is selling hours. A practical test for which side of the line your project falls on.
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18 Sept 2026
Your backup is a guess until you have restored it
Backups that have never been restored are not backups. They are an assumption with a monthly invoice attached. The drill takes an afternoon.
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11 Sept 2026
What to demand when a vendor hands over your system
The moment a project ends is the only moment you have leverage. This is the list to work through before the final invoice is paid.
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4 Sept 2026
Why your stock figure never matches your accounts
If someone reconciles inventory against the books by hand each month, the problem is not diligence. It is that two systems are both being told the truth separately.
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28 Aug 2026
Hosting in Bangladesh or abroad: how to choose
Latency, cost, payment friction, support hours, and where your data is legally allowed to sit. The trade-offs are real in both directions.
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21 Aug 2026
Building for Bengali properly
A Bengali site is not an English site with the text swapped. Type, numerals, search, and line breaking all need attention, and most templates get them wrong.
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14 Aug 2026
The parts of site speed that actually affect your business
Perfect scores are a vanity metric. Three measurements predict whether visitors stay, and they are not the ones most reports lead with.
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7 Aug 2026
Five security measures worth more than everything else combined
Smaller organisations are not targeted by sophisticated attackers. They are caught by automated ones, and these five measures stop most of that.
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31 Jul 2026
The office network decisions that get expensive later
Networks are usually assembled rather than designed. A few choices made early save years of intermittent faults nobody can trace.
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Notes from the work

The bill you do not see until year two

WordPress or a custom build: an honest decision guide

Your backup is a guess until you have restored it

What to demand when a vendor hands over your system

Why your stock figure never matches your accounts

Hosting in Bangladesh or abroad: how to choose

Building for Bengali properly

The parts of site speed that actually affect your business

Five security measures worth more than everything else combined

The office network decisions that get expensive later

Tell us what is not working