Small Business Websites

A $20-a-month AI website builder can get a simple site live fast. Here’s where those tools win—and where hiring a human still makes sense for a small business.

Next.js 16.3 ships first-party agent Skills, including next-dev-loop. Here is what it is, how I set it up, and how it changes building with a coding agent.

How I use openssl rand -hex and -base64 to make strong secrets for my site, when I pick each one, and how I use them for auth, cron jobs, and setup tokens.

The React Compiler is stable and built into Next.js 16, but it is still opt-in. Here is what it does, when I would turn it on as a solo dev, and where I still write useMemo by hand.

I upgraded this site to Next.js 16 — Turbopack builds, Promise-shaped params, and a partial-rendering behavior change that quietly turned one of my security assumptions false. Here's the real upgrade: what broke, what was a non-event, which headline features I deliberately didn't adopt, and the habit that caught the subtle stuff.