A Real Widget, Not Pasted Code
There are two ways to put a custom block on an Elementor site, and the visa site used one of them, paste…
lessons learned
Why I Built a Reusable Testimonial Carousel
Every business site I built ended up needing the same block, a rotating strip of customer testimonials, and every time I rebuilt…
The Tool That Added Nothing and Changed Everything
The visa manager is the smallest project in this blog by line count and one of the largest by daily usefulness, a…
Remembering Passwords, and the Duty That Comes With It
The cockpit’s last request was the obvious one, remember all the passwords, WordPress, Tawk.to, webmail, and fill them in whenever a login…
The Difference Between Working and Finished
The cockpit worked on my machine, launched from a terminal, inside my Python environment, and none of that survives contact with an…
Bringing Outside Tools Into One Cockpit
This is the post where the cockpit becomes the business tool it was imagined as, the four real services, each in its…
Log In Once, Not Four Times
Four embedded views are only a cockpit if they behave like one browser, log into the WordPress admin in the applications tab,…
Putting Live Websites Inside a Desktop App
The whole cockpit rests on one capability, a real web page living inside my desktop window. PyQt5 delivers it through QWebEngineView, a…
The Desktop App That Ended My Tab Juggling
Running the visa business meant living in four browser tabs, the WordPress admin where Fluent Forms collects applications, the visa status page…
What Domain Investing Really Taught Me
Domain investing was my first internet business, and by conventional measures it failed, no big flip, a portfolio that mostly renewed, parking…