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.
What to do when your team stops teaming...
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.
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.
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"."
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…
Agile isn't magic, but it can course-correct where water just falls.
Web development projects are special when compared to other software projects because they are usually in the hands of users faster and are accessed by a lot more people. They also receive feedback qu…
The Friday curse is a sign you need to step up your game.
In darkest coding rooms in the dead of night, there are whispers of the most taboo of taboos... the Friday deployment. Never deploy on a Friday, wisdom says, because here be dragons and even small cha…
How to break your site with images
Long ago, the World Wide Web was nothing but text. Then, some genius realized you could encode images and have browsers display them, and we've been suffering ever since. Images now play a crucial rol…
If you think code reviews are about finding bugs, you're doing them wrong...
We all know that code reviews are important, and we are familiar with the benefits, common suggestions, and best practices. So, you don't need another post telling you about them. Instead, here's why …
Your app's security is only as current as your last update.
You can build the strongest castle, stone walls, guards, traps, moat, but if you leave a side gate open because the lock is ‘coming soon’… It’s all pointless. It’s the same with web applications. You …
Technical debt is like credit card debt, it compounds if ignored.
If you’ve ever had a credit card, then you probably know the drill: you buy something, the statement comes in, and you think, “I’ll deal with it next month”. Then interest piles up, and suddenly that …
