Launching DevSac, Web Development in Sacramento
Frog Stone Media builds websites and web applications in Sacramento. The web design work and everything else is collected here on DevSac.com, the portfolio and blog for this Sacramento-area development practice.
The Projects
The projects page has everything in progress.
PaddleConditions.com pulls real-time river data from USGS gauges, weather stations, and air quality monitors into one dashboard for Sacramento paddlers. It exists because no single site collected the river level, wind, and air quality data Sacramento paddlers actually need. It runs on Astro with a Home Assistant backend collecting sensor data on a Raspberry Pi.
SacGroceries compares grocery prices across Sacramento stores. It tracks prices across dozens of stores and runs on Cloudflare Workers, so pages load quickly on any phone. Michael built it after realizing he was overpaying $40 a week at his nearest store compared to one ten minutes away.
ContentMK is a desktop app for managing WordPress content at scale. It grew out of the tools built to manage thousands of articles at The Weekly Driver and MK Library. Tag deduplication, internal link suggestions, content health scoring. Everything WordPress admin cannot do when you have thousands of articles.
MenuFindr flips restaurant search around. Instead of picking a restaurant and reading the menu, you search for a dish and see which Sacramento restaurants serve it with pricing. The backend runs on Cloudflare Workers with full-text search and fuzzy matching. Both SacGroceries and MenuFindr are built on the same edge computing stack, covered in detail in the post on Cloudflare Workers in production.
There is also Van Briggle Pottery (an image-heavy e-commerce site built with Astro), a Home Inventory management app (Next.js + SQLite), and a Smart Home system with 50+ devices and 7 custom dashboards. Every project page explains what was built, why, and the specific technical decisions behind it.
The Blog
This blog covers three things: build logs for projects in progress, technical deep-dives on the tools in use (Astro, Cloudflare Workers, Home Assistant, TypeScript), and notes on web development in the Sacramento market. Recent posts cover everything from managing 2,200 WordPress articles to building custom Home Assistant dashboards to what Sacramento businesses should know before hiring a web developer.
Every post references real projects with real numbers and real technical decisions.
Get In Touch
If you are a Sacramento business looking for a developer, a fellow builder curious about what is happening locally, or you have a project in mind, the contact page is the best way to get in touch. The work is on the projects page. Read what Sacramento small businesses should know before hiring a web developer or check out the breakdown of how much a website costs in the Sacramento area.
