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March 19, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Age Verification Is Coming to the Software Stack

Age verification has moved from niche policy to operational reality. With App Store Accountability Acts taking effect in 2026, every app developer is in scope. Here is what you need to know.

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March 17, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Product Strategy Is the New Moat in SaaS

How long would it take a competitor to rebuild your product? The clone window has collapsed, and the SaaS companies that survive will be the ones that know what to build, not just how to build it.

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March 11, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

The Costs Your Software Contract is Leaving Out

Most dev shop proposals are thorough about the build and silent about what comes after. Here is what ownership actually costs and the questions to ask before you sign.

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March 4, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

How to Choose the Right App Distribution Channel in 2026

The distribution decision is no longer just ‘put it on the App Store.’ This guide compares nine channels across iOS, Android, and the web, from public stores and unlisted apps to PWAs and MDM deployment, with a decision matrix for choosing the right one for your use case.

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February 27, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Bots Are Quietly Destroying Your Email Deliverability

Every verification email your system sends to an address that did not ask for it is a small bet against your sender reputation. At the scale bots operate today, with automated traffic now exceeding 51% of all web activity, those bets add up fast. Bot deterrence is not optional.

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February 24, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Setting Up Claude Code Agent Teams on macOS

Agent teams let you break work into focused tasks where each teammate gets a fresh context window dedicated to its piece of the problem. This guide walks through the full setup on macOS, from enabling the feature flag to managing your first multi-agent session with tmux.

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Data Privacy in Django: Frank at Djangocon 2018

Frank presents at Djangocon in San Diego. His talk, on pseudonymization. was titled "Pseu, Pseu, Pseudio. Pseudonymization in Django".
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Data Pseudonymization in Django

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