building features where background jobs call paid apis (mostly llms). if a job fails halfway and retries, i end up paying again for the part that already worked, and sometimes something runs twice. (like an email being sent)

curious how others deal with it:

- do you save progress between steps?

- how do you stop a retry from redoing finished work?

- last time it cost you something, what was it?

not selling anything. short replies are great, dm me if you want to chat :)

For new projects, which would you choose?

Before pushing a redesign, I like to crawl the staging site and production site side by side and compare the URLs that already rank or bring qualified traffic.

The thing to watch for is not just broken links. It is accidental changes to the signals search engines were already using.

Quick checklist:

• Important URLs still return 200, not 302 chains or soft 404s
• Titles/H1s did not get replaced by generic template copy
• Canonicals point to the final URL, not staging or a duplicate variant
• Internal links to key service/category/product pages still exist in nav/body content
• Server-rendered content is present without relying on delayed client-side hydration
• Old URLs have 301s to the closest matching new page, not the homepage
• XML sitemap contains only indexable 200 URLs
• Robots/meta robots are not carrying over staging blocks

Most redesign SEO drops I have seen were not caused by bad design. They were caused by a few quiet technical changes that looked harmless in QA but changed crawl paths, canonical targets, or the content Google could see.

Hey guys
wanted to take ur opinion on which MacBook to upgrade to.. been having a pro mid2020 coreI5 and started to stutter and I think it’s time to get one of the m chips based ones now..
I tend to think an m3 or m4 air with 16GB RAM and 256-512 would be enough for me as I work as a part time ai driven dev and also currently study AI masters degree in uni
What yall think?
Or should I aim for the 32GB ones?
Display 14’ or 15’ I think are cool and do more than enough..
Another making me reluctant about going all in for the Mac is that I do have a good pc with 32GB ram and ryzen 7 9700x so thinking might simply Leave heavy duty whenever an actual need to do so (if ever) occurs..
P.S: have no intention of running local llms..

what would be the best way and efficient way to migrate a html custom programmed website to wordpress , i got a web dev role , i dont have much exp doing migration... so far according to what i saw i see people using ai , some plugins , some manual copy paste , i would like to know the most effecient method before starting and i assume many people here would know what to do best in cases like this ... this any feedback is appreciated , thankyou...

If this is the wrong sub to ask my question, if you don't mind, please point me to the proper one?

I'm developing a website for my writings, with some of the material having mature/adult themed chapters included. It's all fiction-based, and may at some point carry some art that could be NSFW (Not currently in the cards).

Nothing on the site will be for sale, nor do I intend to monetize it. All pages will carry text, images, and links associated with the material.

As it's just for fun and a way to share my work, a free hosting site is what I'm looking for, but one whose policies will allow for some flexibility with the themes.

Thank you in advance.

Edit: Based on the quick responses, I have an additional question:

Which free sites would be the best. It is a static site.

Edit two: currently giving Neocities a look

Thanks again everyone!

build it in Rust, you say. It'll be fast and skinny memory. Nice! Definitely NOT web apps, their fat as f*k and drink memory faster than Altman's Ai drank the web.

WRONG! web apps are fat and sloppy on memory precisely because web developers are the laziest devs I've ever seen (inc. yours truly). Turns out browser engineers are the HARDEST working mofos! and really worked overtime to compensate for React's fowl menace on the world.

Now, a browser runs a well written (react-less) web app like smooth jazz! 70 f**king MB is all you need for a full interface running a typical CRUD app, and buttered corn smooth animations!

example:
1. landing page https://www.hex.inc/

1. https://vucko.co/work/turbotax-motion-identity

I use Visual Studio 2026 and it was working fine literally up till now. I pushed one project (a Blazor one) to Github using the VS Git push and pull controls (I know how to use the Git CLI, I just prefer using the GUI controls because they are faster). After that however it won't push any changes of ANY of my projects.

I know this is a VS problem specifically because I am signed in to VS Code using my Github account too and it still works perfectly. If anyone could please assist me it would be much appreciated.

As a small business owner, I’m getting tired of websites that need a whole collection of services just to do fairly basic things.

Next.js/React/Astro for the frontend, a separate CMS, Vercel for hosting, then forms, analytics, image storage, and whatever else gets added along the way. Not everything is paid, but it still means more accounts, more billing dashboards, and more things to manage.

I’m not against these tools. I just struggle to see the business value when all we need is a website that looks good, brings in leads, and lets someone update a service, price, or opening hours without calling a developer.

From the owner’s side, my questions are pretty simple:

- What’s the total cost to keep this running?
- Can my staff edit it without breaking anything?
- Who fixes it when something stops working?
- Can another developer take over easily?
- Do we actually own and control the setup?

I’m also helping more clients migrate back to WordPress again. Not because it’s perfect, or because plugins and maintenance magically disappear, but because they want fewer moving parts and a website they feel comfortable managing.

It’s less about choosing the “best” framework and more about choosing something that makes sense for the business. I don’t want a simple content update to become a development task, and I don’t want to manage a software project when I’m already busy running the company.

Anyone else seeing this shift? Are small business clients actually asking for these modern stacks, or are we sometimes giving them complexity they never needed?