What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.
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13 Mar 2026
Most teams have a definition of done nobody checks against. Ours is short enough that checking it takes less time than skipping it.
Process · 5 min
12 Mar 2026
A build note on the checks we now run against every incoming webhook before it's allowed to touch an order.
Engineering · 6 min
11 Mar 2026
Fixed-price quoting assumes effort is the main variable. A model-backed feature adds a second one that behaves nothing like effort.
Process · 6 min
10 Mar 2026
Every permissions defect we've caught late in a project shares a cause: the test data only ever had one user of each type.
Quality · 5 min
09 Mar 2026
Long, meandering sessions with a coding agent degrade in a specific, predictable way. Cutting them short fixed more than it seemed like it should.
AI · 5 min
06 Mar 2026
A build note on removing two-thirds of a client's analytics dashboard and getting thanked for it.
Case notes · 6 min
