Notes from the workshop

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

IoT devices lie about their state

A car-sharing lock that says it's locked is reporting the last command it received, not the current state of the world.

Engineering · 6 min

07 Apr 2026

The marketplace two-sided launch problem

A marketplace with no supply looks broken to buyers, and a marketplace with no demand looks pointless to sellers. Launch order is a design decision.

Case studyScopingDelivery

Case notes · 6 min

06 Apr 2026

What a Shopify migration actually touches

Moving a storefront off a legacy platform is rarely the storefront's problem. It's the eleven integrations nobody diagrammed.

Case studyEngineeringDelivery

Case notes · 7 min

03 Apr 2026

The cost of a feature nobody removes

Every product we inherit carries a set of features with almost no users and a real maintenance bill. Deleting them is engineering work worth scheduling.

ProcessEngineeringDelivery

Process · 5 min

02 Apr 2026

Load testing a dispatch system honestly

Synthetic load tells you the system survives. It rarely tells you it survives the way your busiest real night looks.

TestingQualityEngineering

Quality · 6 min

01 Apr 2026

The agent that edited the wrong helper

A near miss with a coding agent taught us more about scoping than the ten changes that went smoothly.

AIEngineeringQuality

AI · 6 min