Long-form notes on engineering, design, mobile, cloud, and the business of running an agency. Written by the people doing the work — not a content team.
We’ve now migrated 11 production .NET projects to .NET 8 over the past 18 months. Here are the seven lessons that would have saved us roughly 200 engineer-hours if we’d known them upfront — including the EF Core gotcha that broke staging twice before we caught it.
9 articles. Filter by category or scroll the lot.
How we used CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY and a phased rollout to add a multi-column index without a maintenance window.
Why most Figma → code workflows break, and the three rules we follow that have eliminated 90% of "the design doesn’t match" tickets.
An honest comparison from 40+ shipped mobile apps. No "it depends" cop-outs — here’s our actual decision matrix.
A reserved-instance audit, a query optimiser, and three SQL Server consolidations. The kind of work that pays for itself in the first month.
The estimating framework we’ve evolved over 240 projects. Plus the three "smell tests" we use to spot a project that’s going to blow up.
We tried both. Here’s the team-size threshold and the project-shape signals that tell us which way to go.
Our 5-day research cadence that fits inside a 2-week sprint.
The order we did it in, the bits we kept, and the bits we surprised ourselves by deleting entirely.
The filters we run inbound briefs through.
One short note a month — what we shipped, what we learned. Sent every first Tuesday. No fluff, no sales pitches.
