Notes from
the work.
Working notes on ecommerce, web development, AI integration, and getting projects delivered. Written from inside the problems, with real numbers where we have them.
A $35 shirt, and $18.32 at the door
What decides the bill on an order between Canada and the US, why mail and courier differ, and how to see it before the order ships.
2026-10-19 · 6 min read ↗ /AI & SearchIs AI search actually killing your Google traffic?
Roughly half of searches now get an AI answer, but only about seven percent of local ones. The honest numbers.
2026-07-29 · 8 min read ↗ /EcommerceWe stopped running ads. Revenue doubled.
Two and a half years of our own Shopify data, split into a paid era and an organic one. The lesson was not what we expected.
2026-07-29 · 9 min read ↗ /PricingWhat a small business website actually costs in Calgary
Honest brackets, what pushes a quote up, and the ongoing fees most proposals leave out.
2026-07-29 · 7 min read ↗What the rest of
the industry is saying.
Headlines from public feeds, fetched by our server and refreshed through the day. Following one takes you to that publisher.
Web development
AI
- MIT News New AI “copilot” helps engineers design better structures
- Google AI Google Search gets a major upgrade with Gemini 4 Hydrogen
- MIT News Helping robots fit into the human workplace
- Google AI Gemini Decisions API: Fast, calibrated multimodal decisions
- MIT News Three Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2026 R&D 100 Awards
Project management
Finance
- Bank of Canada Joint Statement of the Government of Canada and the Bank of Canada on the Renewal of the Monetary Policy Framework
- Bank of Canada Bank of Canada raises the policy rate by 25 basis points to 2½%
- Bank of Canada Bank of Canada Board launches process to fill external Deputy Governor position
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