Notes from
the bench.
Studio writing on web design, AI workflows, audio engineering, and the work in between. No filler. Short sentences. Real outcomes.
How to scrape local business leads in Python without an API
Apollo and ZoomInfo are B2B-only and expensive. For local services you scrape Bing and Yelp. The polite-crawler pattern, dedupe rules, and legal guardrails.
What a smash room website actually needs (and what to skip)
The nine sections every smash room, rage room, or paint splatter venue site needs to convert bookings, and the four things to leave on the cutting room floor.
How to wire Stripe Checkout into a chat conversation
A working pattern for turning an AI chat into a one-minute Stripe Checkout flow. The route handler, the four fields, and the anti-patterns that kill conversion.
The internet is haunted. We make it useful.
Why Dead Pixel Design exists, what we ship, and the kind of work we will not take. The manifesto for a one-person Maine studio: cold, premium, and useful.