Blogs & Engineering Insights
Practical writing on the things that slow teams down — architecture, performance, tooling, and SEO.
Why This Blog Exists
This blog grew out of the kind of conversations that happen while onboarding new developers, reviewing pull requests, and explaining the same tricky piece of code more than once. Early on, we learned that the fastest way to actually improve was not just shipping features, but keeping notes on the things that kept slowing our teams down.
That is the spirit of this site. We write down the practical explanations, setup steps, and tool recommendations we'd otherwise end up repeating in chat threads or screen-share sessions anyway.
Blog posts
Guide
Web browser Extensions
A curated list of browser extensions we use for productivity, debugging, and focused browsing.
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Favicon Service: Use website icons without hosting them
A practical guide to fetching website favicons from external services without storing them yourself.
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Getting started with IIS
A practical guide to enabling IIS on Windows 11 and verifying that the installation worked.
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Hello, World!
Meet Open.Whiskay, who this blog is for, and the kind of practical developer guides we publish.
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Frequently asked questions
A quick reference of developer shortcuts, starter tools, and links we reuse often.
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