Web dev feed

Here you will find shorter posts about Web Development, past projects, successes, lessons learnt, our services and future plans.

If you are looking for longer, more detailed thought provoking posts then check out our blog posts.

Is it time to kill staging?

3 December 2025

Some people argue that it is. "Just test in production." Before you grab the pitchforks, here's their argument 👇. We spend time, budget, and effort maintaining a "production-like" environment... that …

AI is not a senior dev. It's a toddler with StackOverflow access

26 November 2025

Now and then, two types of AI stories hit our feeds: 🤑 “I built a full web app in 3 minutes using AI, and now I drive a Lamborghini!” 🤬 “Please help, my AI agent, wiped the entire production database!…

Transparency is better than damage control.

19 November 2025

Are you going to miss a deadline? Was that "simple" feature more difficult than originally estimated? Is the client's new idea... let's say, ambitious? These things happen in web development. The real…

Constraints aren't chains, they're seatbelts.

11 November 2025

We recently read an article arguing against database constraints. It made some interesting points... but we disagree. Strongly. The “dumb database” argument goes like this: - “Validation is business l…

Measure twice, optimize once.

11 November 2025

Or why premature optimization is the root of all evil. Donald Knuth once said: "Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their pr…

Accessibility: It's not just ALT tags.

29 October 2025

We all know a good web application should be accessible. But too often, "accessibility" gets boiled down to 'Just slap some alt tags on it and call it a day' 🚫 Nope. Accessibility is so much more than…

What to do when your team stops teaming...

22 October 2025

Ever since COVID, remote work has become the norm. Many companies are now fully remote or at least hybrid, and while this brings significant advantages, it also presents its challenges. For context, w…

If it's not written down, it didn't happen... or how to solve future mysteries.

15 October 2025

If your processes, designs, and decisions live only in people’s heads, they might as well not exist. Brains, for all their brilliance, are terrible at long-term storage. Software engineering already d…

Shortcuts are the longest route you'll ever take.

8 October 2025

We’ve all done it, added a “temporary” hack with the promise to fix it later... But later never comes, and that “quick fix” ends up living rent-free in the codebase for years. Shortcuts feel fast, but…

Your web application should be "build once, run anywhere", not "build once, get hacked from anywhere"."

1 October 2025

Web Applications were the fulfillment of the dream: Build once, run anywhere. But then reality sank in, and the dream turned into the nightmare: Build once, get hacked from anywhere. The internet is i…