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Guide · Beginner · 6 min
Writing a campaign brief people can execute
The one-page brief format that lets a designer or writer produce assets without a meeting, and what each section is for.
- A brief exists so that someone else can make the assets correctly the first time. Most briefs are either a paragraph of hope or a deck nobody reads. This guide sets out a one-page format where every section answers a question the maker would otherwise have to ask.
- Objective and metric
- Audience and message
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Product photography for digital and physical goods
How to produce listing images that show the real product clearly, consistently, and in the formats marketplaces want.
- Listing images decide whether a buyer reads the rest. This guide covers the two cases a store meets — screenshots of digital products and photographs of physical ones — with the rules that keep every image honest, consistent and usable across platforms.
- The first image shows the product
- Consistency across the catalogue
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Reading Minecraft server logs
What the common log lines mean and how to find the plugin responsible.
- The latest log is the first place to look when a Minecraft server misbehaves. This guide explains the messages you will meet most and how to trace them to a plugin or a setting.
- Start-up
- Runtime
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Reading the FiveM server console
How to read the console and logs to find what broke, before asking anyone.
- Most FiveM problems announce themselves in the console. This guide shows what the common messages mean, how to find the resource responsible, and what to try before posting in a support channel.
- Start-up messages
- Runtime errors
Guide · Intermediate · 10 min
Utilisation and capacity for a small agency
How to measure billable capacity, plan against it and price so the numbers work.
- Small agencies run on utilisation — the share of available hours that are billable — and most never measure it. This guide explains how to compute it, what a healthy number looks like, and how capacity planning and pricing follow from it.
- Compute it honestly
- What healthy looks like
Guide · Intermediate · 10 min
Writing a technical design document that gets read
A one-to-two page design doc format that surfaces the decisions and gets review before the code is written.
- A design document exists to get a decision reviewed before it is expensive to change. Most are too long to read or too vague to disagree with. This guide is a format that fits in two pages and invites the disagreement that saves the rework.
- Problem, not solution, first
- The decision and the alternatives
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Choosing software for a small business
A short method for picking a tool without a six-month evaluation or a regret.
- Small businesses lose weeks to tool evaluations and years to the wrong tool. This guide is a method that takes an afternoon and produces a choice you can defend: three jobs, two trials, one decision written down.
- Three jobs, not thirty features
- Two trials with real data
Guide · Intermediate · 10 min
Agent architecture choices
The four architectural decisions every agent forces and how to make them for a first production agent.
- Agent frameworks differ in surface but force the same four decisions: how the loop ends, how tools fail, where state lives, and who approves side effects. This guide makes each decision for a first production agent and explains the trade-off.
- How the loop ends
- How tools fail
ClaudeChatGPT
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Server performance basics
What makes a Minecraft server lag and what to do about each cause, in order of likelihood.
- Lag on a Minecraft server has a short list of usual causes. This guide walks through them from most to least likely, with what to check and what to change, so you fix the real cause instead of buying RAM.
- Plugins doing work every tick
- Entities and redstone
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
FiveM frameworks compared for a new server
What ESX, QBCore and Qbox each assume, and how to choose for the server you actually want.
- The framework decides which resources you can use, how your economy behaves and who can help you when it breaks. This guide compares the three common choices on the questions that matter for a new roleplay server.
- What a framework provides
- ESX
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Running an agency on a weekly rhythm
The weekly rhythm that keeps a small agency calm: what happens on which day and why.
- Agencies feel chaotic when every week is different. This guide sets a weekly rhythm — planning, delivery, client communication, review — that makes most weeks the same and leaves attention for the exceptions.
- Monday: plan and pipeline
- Tuesday to Thursday: delivery
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Measuring marketing honestly
How to attribute results without fooling yourself, with a small set of numbers that survive scrutiny.
- Marketing measurement fails in two ways: claiming everything and measuring nothing. This guide is a middle path: a few numbers, defined precisely, compared consistently, and read with their limits stated.
- Define the events
- Tag consistently
Guide · Beginner · 10 min
Reading a codebase you did not write
A method for getting productive in an unfamiliar codebase in a day.
- Every developer inherits code. The difference between a week of confusion and a productive first day is method, not talent. This guide is the method: entry points, one path, conventions, then the change.
- Find the entry points
- Trace one path end to end
Guide · Beginner · 10 min
Writing procedures people follow
How to write a standard operating procedure that a new person can follow the first time.
- Most procedures are written for the person who already knows the job. This guide is a method for writing one that a new person follows correctly on their first attempt, which is the only test that matters.
- Header, trigger, owner
- One action per step, named controls
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Digital delivery and licensing basics
How digital products should be delivered and licensed so buyers get access, sellers keep control and disputes are rare.
- Digital goods have no shipping, which means delivery and licensing are the whole customer experience after payment. This guide explains the delivery model that works, what a licence must say, and how to handle the disputes that still happen.
- Deliver to an account, not a link
- A licence in plain words
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Prompt maintenance
How to keep a library of production prompts working as models, inputs and policies change.
- A prompt that worked in March drifts by June: the model updated, the inputs changed shape, a policy sentence was reworded. This guide is the maintenance routine that keeps a prompt library trustworthy.
- Version prompts like code
- Keep a fixed test set
Any assistant
Guide · Beginner · 10 min
Where assistants belong in a business process
A way to decide which steps of a process an assistant should draft, which it should decide, and which it should never touch.
- Assistants are good at drafting and sorting and poor at deciding and promising. This guide gives a rule for placing them in a process so the speed is real and the risk is contained.
- Three kinds of steps
- The review that makes it safe
Any assistant
Guide · Beginner · 12 min
Pricing a small SaaS
A method for setting a first price and a plan structure without guessing.
- Pricing is a decision you can revise, but a first price set by guessing anchors everything after it. This guide gives a method: value from the customer's alternative, a simple structure, and a rule for when to change.
- Start from the alternative
- Two plans, one difference
Guide · Beginner · 15 min
Choosing a SaaS stack you can maintain alone
How to choose the framework, database and hosting for a small SaaS on the basis of maintenance, not novelty.
- The stack that ships a SaaS is the one you can debug at midnight. This guide sets out the questions that matter for a small team choosing a framework, a database and hosting, and the answers that hold up two years in.
- Framework: the one you already know
- Database: Postgres unless you can say why not

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