Insights
Practical thinking for better digital systems.
Clear guides, project lessons and decision frameworks for businesses building websites, web applications and more useful digital systems. We focus on practical choices, maintainable technology and real project experience rather than trends for their own sake.
Topic areas
Explore the ideas behind the work.
Modern websites
Guidance on website strategy, redesigns, performance, accessibility, technical SEO and choosing an appropriate web platform.
- When does a business website need a redesign?
- Astro or Next.js for a marketing website?
- What makes a website maintainable after launch?
- How performance affects trust and conversion
Web applications and SaaS
Practical lessons about MVP planning, customer portals, internal tools, dashboards and sustainable product architecture.
- What should be included in a SaaS MVP?
- When should a business replace spreadsheets with a web application?
- How to scope a customer portal
- Why small product teams should reduce early complexity
CMS and structured content
Advice for businesses and teams that need content to be easier to create, reuse and maintain.
- When does a business need a headless CMS?
- Sanity compared with a traditional CMS
- How structured content supports multiple channels
- Planning content before website design
Building Softblue
Occasional lessons from developing Softblue's internal systems, portfolio products and founder-led operating model.
- What PipeFlow teaches us about service business software
- Designing Listenote around an existing human workflow
- Building a maintainable content platform with Sanity
- Using AI to support a founder-led studio without lowering quality
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