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.

Simple is better than complex.

14 January 2026

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.

10 December 2025

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?

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…

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…

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…

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…