Custom POS or Square? Use Square unless you hit 3 limits
Most retailers should use Square or Lightspeed. Build a custom POS only for serial-numbered stock, workflows no POS screen fits, or multi-tenant logic.
Blog, page 9
Writing based on projects we built, without listicles or filler.
Desktop auto-updates: Electron vs Tauri, signing and servers
Electron autoUpdater: Windows and macOS only, signed Mac builds, a feed you host unless open source. Tauri: every release signed, on all three OSes.
Expo or bare React Native in 2026
Where the Expo layer earns its keep, where config plugins and the Expo Modules API cover you, and the narrow case that still justifies bare React Native.
How we scope fixed-price projects after nine years of freelancing
What years of freelance projects taught us about writing down exclusions, tying milestones to deliverables, and asking questions that expose hidden complexity.
Go, Node, or Bun for your backend
A scenario-based look at Go, Node.js, and Bun for backend work, covering team fluency, concurrency, deployment shape, and ecosystem depth.
How to get your business recommended by ChatGPT
The mechanical side of AI answer engine optimization: robots.txt, structured data, llms.txt, and crawler markdown, built into dawloom.com and checkable here.
Keeping Shopify in sync with an inventory system
A one-way push to Shopify works until the first order lands from the other side. How to build a sync that stays honest: push, listen for changes, reconcile.
MCP servers: what they are and when a business actually needs one
What the Model Context Protocol standardizes, what an MCP server can expose, and the honest signs a business should or shouldn't build one yet.
Multi-tenant SaaS: row, schema, or database isolation
Three ways to keep one tenant's data away from another, what each one costs to operate, and how we weigh the tradeoff when a client asks.
Next.js or Astro? We used one for a client's SaaS and the other for this site
A framework comparison grounded in two live Dawloom builds. FurnitureAxis runs on Next.js, dawloom.com runs on Astro, and the reasons are not interchangeable.
The 15-day cooldown that would have stopped this week's npm attack
keyv and cacheable's maintainer account was hijacked on August 4, and the worm that followed hit 434 packages. The one pnpm setting that blocks it.
OpenAI Agents SDK vs Claude Agent SDK: a closer look
Both SDKs run an agent loop but solve different problems. One coordinates and hands off between agents. The other gives you Claude Code's harness as a library.
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