I'm Frank Robinson. Twenty-eight years in IT: help desk, sysadmin, infrastructure, and lately the code that runs in production after the consultants leave. FMR Digital is what I do now, on purpose.01
Most software fails not because the technology is hard, but because the people building it never had to live with the result. I run my own homelab. I host my own services. I use the things I ship.
The sites you'll see below were built the same way I'd build them for you. Small, observable, owned end-to-end, with the boring parts (auth, deploys, error budgets) handled before they become a 2 a.m. problem. No frameworks chosen for the resume. No abstractions hiding the seams.
If you've been burned by a freelancer who vanished, or an agency that handed you a system you couldn't read, this is the alternative.
Not concept work. These are products I designed, built, and operate. The receipts for everything above.
Self-hosted recipe manager
Recipe sites have become unreadable. Ads, life stories, autoplay video, three pop-ups before the ingredients. Cookslate strips it down: paste any URL, get a clean recipe, organize collections, cook hands-free with a screen that won't sleep and timers that fire on cue.
Repair tracking for vehicle fleets
Built for the fleet ops people who run on whiteboards, group texts, and Excel spreadsheets that nobody else can read. Mechanics log issues, managers approve work, everyone sees status. Roles keep the right eyes on the right data.
The system I'm building to run FMR Digital itself. Project tracking, client leads, infrastructure inventory. The site you're reading routes its contact form straight into it.02 Quiet proof: I trust my own software with my own business.
The unsexy software your operation actually runs on. Work orders, dashboards, admin panels, audit trails. See: FleetWright.
When the SaaS you're paying for is bloated, expensive, or watching too closely. I'll build the version you actually want, and you'll own it. See: Cookslate.
Inherited a project from someone who's gone. Stuck on a stack nobody will touch. I'll audit it, write down what it actually does, and bring it forward without breaking what works.
Or what's broken. Or what you've been putting off. I read everything that comes through and reply within forty-eight hours.03
Thanks. I'll get back to you within 48 hours.
