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What we're building, what we're learning, and what we think matters for teams shipping software in 2026.

Featured · AI

Shipping LLM agents to production: lessons from a year of building

Beyond the demo: prompt versioning, evals, cost guardrails and the operational patterns that turn an LLM prototype into a reliable product feature.

March 18, 2026·9 min read
Backend

Laravel 12 in production: what actually changed

A grounded look at Laravel 12's new application skeleton, container changes and the migration path from Laravel 10/11 codebases without breaking anything.

February 4, 20267 min read
Infrastructure

We moved a Laravel monolith to Cloudflare Workers. Here's what broke.

Edge runtimes are not Node. A blow-by-blow account of the migration — what worked unchanged, what required rewrites, and the cost & latency wins on the other side.

January 22, 202612 min read
Mobile

React Native vs Flutter in 2026: choosing for the next five years

Both stacks are mature. The decision is about your team, your existing web stack, and where Apple and Google are heading. A pragmatic decision framework.

December 9, 20258 min read
DevOps

Automated workflows with n8n: when to use it and when to build your own

n8n is fantastic — until it isn't. The signals that tell you it's time to graduate from a no-code workflow tool to a proper service, and how to do it cleanly.

November 14, 20256 min read
Performance

Core Web Vitals in 2026: INP, image pipelines and the new baseline

Interaction to Next Paint replaced FID a while back. Here's what we measure, why old optimisation playbooks fail, and the tools we use to hit Lighthouse 95+.

October 1, 202510 min read

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