Notes from the workshop

What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.

IoT devices lie, and your code should expect that

Notes from a car-sharing build on treating every hardware signal as an opinion rather than a fact.

Engineering · 6 min

04 Feb 2026

Not every unexpected behaviour is a defect, and treating them the same way in a bug tracker slows both kinds of fix down.

Quality · 5 min

03 Feb 2026

A build note on moving a live storefront's checkout logic without a maintenance page, because the client's busiest sales hours are unpredictable.

Case notes · 6 min

02 Feb 2026

We put a running cost figure on every model-backed feature in January. Here is what showed up once we actually looked at the numbers.

AI · 6 min

30 Jan 2026

AI features drift as inputs, providers and user habits change. A recurring half-hour keeps them honest.

AI · 5 min

29 Jan 2026

Three documents per project, each with a named reader and a reason to exist. Everything else rots.

Process · 5 min