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How to Set Up Claude for Your Business
Buying seats is not a rollout. The order I actually set it up in: one job, one person, a project with real examples, and connectors switched off for the first fortnight.
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Weekly round-up: Magento APSB26-153 and a Supabase TLS deadline
Adobe's APSB26-153 has five critical Magento fixes, Supabase disables old TLS 1.2 ciphers on 10 November, and the .NET SDK grows up.
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Claude vs ChatGPT for a Small Business: The Honest Comparison
I pay for both and build with Claude Code daily. Here's where each one is genuinely better, what they really cost, and the two-hour test that settles it.
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Weekly round-up: Nuxt 4.6, scoped Supabase tokens, and a December deadline
Nuxt 4.6 and the end of Nuxt 3, scoped Supabase personal access tokens, the 1 December adapter removal, and WordPress 7.1.3.
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16,326 Supabase Databases Were Left Exposed. Here's Why
UpGuard found over 16,000 public Supabase databases leaking real personal data this week. The cause traces back to one setting, and it's worth checking on your own project.
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Weekly round-up: Postgres security release, OrioleDB beta, and Supabase Middleware 1.0
Supabase's Postgres security release with four breaking changes, OrioleDB in public beta, Supabase Middleware 1.0, and a note on WordPress 7.1.2.
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Is Claude AI Good for Small Business? A Developer's Honest Take
A senior developer's honest, first-person take on whether Claude is actually useful for a small business, and where it isn't.
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Weekly round-up: a critical WordPress RCE, Nuxt's build layer swap, and Claude gets serious about small business
A critical WordPress RCE worth patching today, Nuxt 4.5's build layer swap, Claude for Small Business grows up, and a quick look at this month's Supabase changelog.
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Weekly round-up: StyleSmuggler clean-up, a Supabase deadline, and the Claude Code limits shuffle
A week on from the Magento zero day, the mopping-up is where the real work is. Plus a Supabase logs endpoint being removed on 23 September, and the Claude Code limits change that is both a rise and a cut.
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How to Prepare for a Headless Migration
Most migrations that go badly went badly before anyone wrote a line of code. The non technical homework to do before you move to a headless setup, from URL mapping to who enters the content.
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Can Your Team Actually Edit a Headless CMS?
The biggest objection to going headless is not speed or cost, it is whether your team can update the site without a developer. Here is what actually makes a headless CMS editable.
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Moving from BigCommerce to a headless setup
BigCommerce is one of the few SaaS platforms actually built to go headless, so the real question is rarely how to escape it. It is whether you keep it as the backend or leave it entirely. Here is how I decide.
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