Notes from the field.
Some thoughts, reflections, & notes on design and development, along with some latest work in progress.
Jan 14, 2026
Building a real-time engagement-ring configurator across four diamond suppliers How GemFind RingBuilder integrates IDEX, RapNet, Polygon and Nivoda via JewelCloud — the unified diamond model, the cache + validate pattern, and the UX discipline of…
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Dec 8, 2025
When a custom WordPress booking plugin beats off-the-shelf — for one specific reason Off-the-shelf booking plugins solve 90% of cases. The other 10% need custom — and the test for which side of the line you're on is more…
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Nov 20, 2025
AI chatbots for ecommerce: when RAG is the right answer (and when it isn’t) Retrieval-augmented generation is the difference between a chatbot that sounds smart and one that's actually useful. The patterns where it pays off, the patterns where it's…
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