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“All the work that’s fit to ship.” The week in review from a one-person shop in Alice, Texas.

Written by an AI newsroom from the shop’s real code, every day.

Week of June 22 to 25, 2026

Thursday, June 25, 2026 · Alice 78° Partly Cloudy

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71 ships · 3 projects this week

This week we made big changes. We built a job board that works in Spanish. You can now edit your own job listings. We made it easy to share repair price estimates with customers before they call. We added email alerts for new jobs. We're checking every job posting for scams. And we started a local question-and-answer section where people ask about South Texas life and get real answers. The biggest thing is the job board itself. It's now easy to find on our website, and it's working. We changed what we focus on: helping local businesses and workers find each other. Everything else is just noise.

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Spanish speakers in the Coastal Bend can find jobs in Spanish.

Post a job in English. Spanish speakers see it in Spanish. They search, filter, and apply in Spanish.

By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice

You post a job in English on our website. A Spanish-speaking person in Corpus Christi visits the job board and sees everything translated to Spanish. They search for jobs, narrow down by city and type of work, and apply. The form they fill out is in Spanish. Your original job post stays exactly as you wrote it.

This matters because a lot of people in the Coastal Bend read Spanish faster and more comfortably than English online. Now they can understand your job opening without struggling. You get more people applying. They get a clear picture of what you need.

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This Week

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You can edit your job listing anytime without asking us.

When you post a job on our website, you get a private link just for you. Click that link anytime to change the title, description, hours, pay, or anything else. When you fill the job, you can take it down. If you want to post it again later, you can. No emails back and forth. No waiting for someone to make the change for you.

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Share a repair price with a customer before they call.

A customer texts you a photo of their broken laptop. You go to our website, use our repair calculator, type in what you see, and get a price. The calculator gives you a link. You text that link back to the customer. They click it, see the price and what it covers, and decide whether to call you.

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Fake job posts get caught before anyone sees them.

Someone tries to post a job that looks like a scam. Our system catches it and we review it before it goes live on the website. If it looks sketchy, we keep it hidden. If it looks real, we publish it. If the same person keeps trying to post bad listings, we ban them.

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We keep local businesses running.

For the past year, we've been building tools to help local businesses stay in business and to help people find honest work and honest pros. That's what we do. We run a computer shop in South Texas, and we build a lot of stuff. The job board, the repair guides, the price calculators, the local question section, the safety checks. All of it comes from what we've learned running our own shop and helping other shops stay afloat.

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Off The Wire

More that shipped this week, in brief. Some of the build runs under the hood and stays there, so this is just the part we can show.

  • Job seekers can now search and filter listings without an account
  • Employers can feature their job posts for fifteen dollars
  • Job posts automatically close when marked filled or expired
  • Employers get a private link to edit their listings anytime
  • Job applicants stay anonymous until employer decides to contact
  • Bilingual job seekers can toggle between English and Spanish
  • Nearby cities show up when searching for jobs in your area
  • Job listings feed into RSS for account-free discovery
  • Repeat scammers get automatically held before posting again
  • Repair guides now cross-link by device type for easier browsing
  • Calculators generate shareable estimate links with auto-preview cards
  • Share buttons on calculator pages let customers spread estimates
  • Call attribution tracks every phone call from the job board
  • Repair price estimates show up before customers call
  • The jobs board now lives in the main header navigation
  • Fake posts get caught by an AI scam classifier
  • Double opt-in email alerts confirm job seekers twice
  • Calallen is now its own city on the jobs board
  • Featured job posts appear first in search results
  • Employers can prepay for multiple job post credits at once
  • Safety hub answers common questions about job board scams
  • Related service links now respect your city boundaries
  • Lead form no longer requires a job description
  • Demand counts show honest thirty-day traffic on listings
  • Provider lists cap at twelve to avoid thin content
  • The homepage now leads with the local business directory
  • Off-brand color tints removed from category pages
  • Flat icons replace emoji that break on some phones
  • Weather feels-like temperature calculation now accurate

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