Engineering changelog, not a content marketing blog.
Notes from the inside of the studio: audit findings, framework choices, on-call rotations, what we learned shipping a particular system. Written by the engineers who did the work, edited lightly, published when there is something worth saying.
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2026-04-22
Why we still write vanilla JavaScript in 2026
Most of our production frontends ship without a framework. This is not nostalgia. It is a deliberate choice that survives quarterly review.
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2026-03-11
Audit findings from the last 14 engineering audits
We ran 14 fixed-fee engineering audits between Jan 2025 and Feb 2026. The same six issues showed up in over half of them. None were surprising. All were avoidable.
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2026-01-30
Why every new build goes on PostgreSQL
We have not started a new project on MySQL since 2021. This is the short version of why.
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2025-12-04
On-call rotations that do not burn out a four-person team
Twelve retainers, four engineers, no 3am heroics. How we run on-call without it eating the rest of the work.
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2025-10-18
Why we publish our prices on the public site
Most agencies hide pricing behind a discovery call. We do not. Here is what changed when we stopped.