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Grace Tarnasky's site, from launch-ready to public

Her palette arrived as a document she had written herself, the headline on the home page is her own sentence, and the fork carried three themes before the quiet one won. Here is what the site is made of, and what ten gated days bought before anybody outside her family could see it.

A booking engine inside the CMS: slots, guards, clocks

Two visitors reach for the same half past ten on a Friday, a second apart. No lock and no unique index can settle it, because the appointment does not live in my database at all. Here is what settles it instead, and the window that stays open behind the answer.

Twelve neighborhood guides and one valuation form

A market report is accurate and generic; a neighborhood guide is specific and goes stale. Grace Tarnasky's site runs both and joins them with a five-digit number. What each half is for, where the data comes from, what a guide is not allowed to say, and why the valuation form refuses to guess.

What a licensed psilocybin practice needs from its site

A regulated practice cannot buy a single click, so organic search has to carry everything. Here is what that changed: an age gate that keeps the page crawlable, booking built into the CMS with the acknowledgments recorded, mail that sends through one provider and receives through another, and a review card I shipped and then switched off for good.

One engine, three client sites: the fork per client model

Three live sites share one CMS engine and share nothing at runtime: separate repositories, separate keys, separate databases, separate hosting accounts. The bill for that isolation arrives every time I fix something in the engine, because a fix lands in one copy and has to be carried to the rest. Here is the ritual, the path a real security fix took, and the four ways the sweep has quietly failed on me.

Building a real estate site for a realtor in The Dalles

Grace Tarnasky messaged me on a Thursday and had a working site on Saturday. A walkthrough and a look at the decisions: why her listings are real pages instead of an IDX iframe, why six neighbourhood guides matter more than a search box, and what a fork of an engine buys you.

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