WordPress vs. Custom-Built: What Small Businesses Actually Need
The honest answer depends less on the technology and more on who will maintain the site after launch, and how the business plans to grow.
The Year in Dev — Twelve Months of Lessons, Shipped
December is for looking back. Here are the practices that stuck, the experiments that failed, and the convictions that grew stronger across 2025.
Progressive Enhancement — Building for Resilience, Not Just Performance
November reminded us that the web's greatest strength is its fault tolerance. Progressive enhancement is how you preserve it.
Micro-Frontends in the Real World — When to Split, When to Stay
October's architecture review forced us to confront the micro-frontend question. The answer was more nuanced than the conference talks suggested.
Monitoring That Matters — Building Observability Into Your Stack
September's production incident revealed that we had plenty of data but zero insight. Here is how we rebuilt our monitoring to actually answer questions.
Database Patterns for Modern Web Apps — What We Learned in August
A month spent untangling database problems across four projects taught us that most data issues are design issues in disguise.
CI/CD That Actually Works — Pipelines for Small Teams
July provided an honest look at our deployment pipelines. Half of them were too slow, too fragile, or too clever. Here is what survived the cleanup.
TypeScript Beyond the Basics — Patterns That Pay Off
June's deep work on TypeScript convinced us that the real value isn't in adding types — it's in designing types that make invalid states unrepresentable.