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.
Small things make a difference.
We maintain and continue to develop a wood shipment logistics app for one of our clients. Delivery drivers use it to manage jobs from start to finish: select a job, drive to the pickup location, load …
How you fail determines how you succeed.
The cost of bad error messages. This one is personal. Over the holidays, a friend asked me to test their app and give feedback. I put on my average user hat, assumed no dev knowledge, and got to testi…
Simple is better than complex.
It's the new year! Coffee is in hand, IDE open. Your first programming task? Understanding what you wrote last year. There's a joke that goes: “When I wrote this code, only God and I understood it. No…
Your data has a nationality. Your architecture should know it.
For our last web dev Wednesday of the year, we're ending on something a little heavier than usual: data sovereignty. We've talked a lot about securing data, protecting its integrity, and building trus…
Is it time to kill staging?
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
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.
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…
Measure twice, optimize once.
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…
Constraints aren't chains, they're seatbelts.
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…
Accessibility: It's not just ALT tags.
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…
