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Technical deep-dives, real-world lessons, and honest takes on building modern web and mobile apps.

Mostly for developers. Code snippets, migration gotchas, and practical advice from someone who's actually shipped things.

Read Why We Don't Use Elementor (And Why You Shouldn't Either)

Why We Don't Use Elementor (And Why You Shouldn't Either)

Page builders like Elementor make WordPress development slower, harder to maintain, and give content editors too much design control. Here's why we use ACF with custom themes instead.

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Read AI Coding Tools Late 2025: What We Kept vs Cancelled

AI Coding Tools Late 2025: What We Kept vs Cancelled

Eight months after our first AI tools experiment, here's what actually stuck. Real costs, productivity data, and the tools we quietly cancelled.

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Read Migrating to Next.js 16: What Broke in Production

Migrating to Next.js 16: What Broke in Production

Migrated three production Next.js apps to v16 within a week of release. Here's every Turbopack issue, React Compiler gotcha, and breaking change we hit — and how we fixed them.

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