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Oct 9, 2026Design System
Changing every colour without editing 31 files
A brand document arrived that replaced the palette, the type and the default theme. The build had 972 colour utilities spread across 31 files.
Sep 29, 2026Localization
Privacy is not security, and Vietnamese knows the difference
We had translated the one word our document tools are sold on, and translated it wrong. It took a review to notice.
Sep 15, 2026Next.js
One directive, and 223 kilobytes
A marketing page with no state, no effects and no handlers was shipping itself to the browser as JavaScript. The fix was deleting one line.
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- Feb 10, 2026Build or buy: the question that actually settles itStrategy
- Jan 13, 2026Cutting MVP scope without gutting the productMVP
- Dec 16, 2025Extracting data from documents: what still goes wrongAI
- Dec 2, 2025Automate the handoffs, not the documentsAutomation
- Nov 18, 2025Why some document tools never upload your filePrivacy
- Nov 4, 2025Invoicing is not a spreadsheet problemInvoicing
- Oct 21, 2025Electronic signatures: what the standards actually requirePDF
- Oct 7, 2025Adding AI to Shopify or WooCommerce without breaking the storeE-commerce
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