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Defender, Claude Code and the Dev Drive: What We Measured

4 November 2026 - Microsoft Defender and an AI coding agent on Windows spend the day getting in each other's way. Excluding your code folders is the obvious fix and the wrong one. We measured what a Dev Drive does instead.

How to Create a Modern Website in 2026 with Astro

26 September 2026 - Why a static website suits a small business, and all the other parts that go into making one work properly, from the favicon to the cookie banner.

The Most Important Part of Our Website Wasn't Under Our Control

19 September 2026 - Our contact form used to run through someone else's server. Bringing it in-house cost nothing, and it made me look at which parts of a business quietly depend on tools you do not control.

Building a FlashCard SaaS Platform with Claude AI in One Month

22 March 2026 - A rapid development case study showcasing how I built a production-ready, cloud-native FlashCard SaaS platform on Microsoft Azure in one month, leveraging Claude AI to accelerate architecture decisions, code generation, and documentation.

Petra Jewellery's CRM Synchronisation

14 January 2025 - Smarter Business Tech developed middleware to link Petra Jewellery's on-premises POS system to the cloud based GenieAI CRM system to ensure that both are automatically synchronised daily.