This week we shipped bilingual job search and scam protection for the jobs board, made Calallen its own city, and got the sell-the-slot board ranking by real outcomes instead of date. The biggest move was Spanish language support on /jobs, that's the single biggest thing that shipped. Spanish-speaking workers in the Bend can now search and apply in their language, and employers don't have to translate a thing.
Job posts stay in English. Search, filters, forms flip to Spanish.
By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice
If you speak Spanish and you're looking for work in the Coastal Bend, you can search the jobs board in Spanish. Hit the language toggle on /jobs and the whole board flips. You can read job titles, filter by category and city, and fill out your application all in Spanish.
English-speaking employers don't have to translate their posts. They stay as written. You're just getting a Spanish interface so you can navigate and apply without switching tabs or using a translator.
When someone posts a job, we run it through a scam classifier. If it smells wrong, fake urgency, upfront fees, promises that are too good to be true, the post goes into a hold queue instead of going live right away. I review it and either approve it or trash it.
Calallen used to show up as part of Corpus Christi on the job board. Now it's a standalone city. If you live in Calallen and you search for jobs in Calallen, you get Calallen jobs. If you want to expand your search to nearby cities, you can do that too.
Search for jobs in Alice and you'll see Alice jobs first. Below that, you'll see a section that says 'Also hiring nearby' with jobs from Robstown, Calallen, and other towns a short drive away. You don't have to run separate searches to find work in the surrounding area.
When you use one of our repair calculators, say you're figuring out what a roof costs or what you'd pay for a foundation fix, you can hit a share button and get a permalink. That link has your estimate saved in it. Send it to someone else and they see your exact numbers without running the calculator again.
If you're on the NPC Laser site and you notice the little laser dot in the corner, try triple-clicking it. Or if you remember the Konami code from old arcade games, try that too. Something unexpected happens.
This is the free, no-sales-pitch playbook straight from the federal agency whose whole job is keeping businesses safe from ransomware, phishing, and hackers. We like it because it skips the outdated advice and tells you exactly what to turn on first, starting with multi-factor authentication on every account.
We like this one because it skips the jargon and walks you straight through what the 3-2-1 rule actually means for a small shop, including real tool picks and a cost example you can steal right now. It also clears up the big trap most folks fall into: your Dropbox or Google Drive sync is not a backup, and this guide explains exactly why that matters when ransomware shows up.
We found a plain-talk post from a real accountant who ran her own QuickBooks file and made every one of these mistakes herself, so she knows exactly where DIY owners go wrong. It walks through six specific slip-ups, like double-posting income and letting auto-add bank rules run wild, and tells you exactly how to fix each one before they turn into a tax headache.
We like this one because it walks you through all ten fixes in plain order, from moving your router to picking the right kind of extender or mesh setup, so you can actually do something today instead of just reading about the problem. EPB is a real fiber utility, not somebody trying to sell you gear, which means the advice is straight and honest for a shop our size.
Google put together a free video series that walks real small business owners through everyday AI tasks like writing emails, sorting finances, and handling customer service, no tech background needed. We watched it and the demos are plain and practical, the kind of thing you can try the same afternoon right here in Alice.
This one walks you through a real NWS marine forecast the same way a buddy at the dock would, covering wind knots, wave height, and the swell interval trick that most folks ignore until they get beat up out on the water. If you fish out of Port Aransas or Rockport, we think this is worth ten minutes of your time before the next trip.
