Notes from the workshop

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

Prompting is a skill, context is an asset

One of these things lives in a person's head and leaves when they do. The other lives in the repository. We have started investing accordingly.

AI · 6 min

06 Feb 2026

Double-charged orders during a traffic spike led us to rebuild the checkout path around one rule: nothing important happens twice.

Engineering · 6 min

05 Feb 2026

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