The Town Nerd

We do the hard part and make your project work.

The Town Nerd

About Us

We do the hard part to make your project work. If you have ever said “I love this idea but have no idea if it can be done,” then that is where we come in.

We also maintain servers. Not everything is about clickable interfaces. We use SSH and Vim. A lot.

5 flaws closed on a site under attack

When Someone Is Already Inside

A custom-built PHP site was being actively exploited. We scoped the attacker’s access from the logs, automated the search for string-built SQL queries, and fixed 5 Execution After Redirect flaws. Every one of these jobs has been on a codebase new to us, so we look for the next weak point as well as the last one.
4 hours → 5 min of engineering calculations

Software People Can Keep

Calculations that took engineers 4 hours by hand now take under 5 minutes. We wrote it in Visual Basic on purpose, so the engineers could maintain it themselves. The same thinking in Perl took WHM customer onboarding from 2 hours to 2 minutes.
8 years in production, watching 800+ sites

Built to Last

A multithreaded C daemon, backed by MySQL, monitored 800+ websites and stayed in production for about 8 years.
8 gyms on one multi-tenant platform

The Box Tracker

We co-founded a gym management platform for 8 CrossFit gyms. Recurring ACH billing ran in-house: failed payments rolled back for an automatic next-day retry, and no member was charged more than once per billing cycle. We security-tested it for 2 years with Burp Suite and fuzzing.
~100 domains across 10 servers for 5 clients

Keeping the Lights On

On-site and off-site hosting: DNS, mail servers with SPF and DKIM, networking, firewalls, and PCI DSS compliance for client environments. We once moved a whole server room overnight, re-cabling the racks, with zero business disruption.
2 min → 2 sec for one product lookup

Finding the Slow Part

A store’s product lookup used 128 MB of memory, 5 MB of HTML and 2 minutes of CPU time. One custom SQL query brought it to 2 seconds and under 32 MB.
7 places on 3 continents

A Pretty Big Town

We have worked with companies in California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, France, England and Australia, including 4 web design firms where we built the custom features after working through the problem with their UX designers.

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