20 Engineering
Coding with AI in 2026, minus the hype: who's actually getting rich, where the tool earns its keep, where it face plants, and why thinking is still the job.
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19 Business
Adding AI isn't a plan, it's shopping before you've decided what you're cooking. The questions that tell you whether you need AI at all, and what to do if you do.
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18 Business
Paying for custom software isn't the same as owning it. A plain English guide to who holds the rights, what a real handover looks like, and how to avoid getting locked in.
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17 Business
Most people who build custom software don't offer an uptime SLA, and that's honesty, not a red flag. The two very different things called an SLA, which one you buy, which one you sign, and how to read the fine print on both.
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16 Business
Software rots even when you don't touch it. What post launch work actually is, how to budget for it, and how to decide who keeps the thing alive.
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15 Business
A transparent breakdown of what drives the quote you receive, why two developers can price the same idea 4x apart, and how to read a number before you sign it.
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14 Business
The monthly hosting bill is a running cost separate from development, and whose name the account is in decides whether you own your software or rent it back from whoever built it.
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13 Business
How to choose between fixed price and time and materials contracts based on who carries the risk, when each is a trap, and a decision rule that hinges on one thing: how well defined the work is.
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12 Business
The first month is where you find out if you hired the right person, while it's still cheap to change your mind. Here's what a good one looks like from my side of the table.
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11 Engineering
The reasons to pick Go over Java in 2016 have evaporated. A fair look at how Java caught up, where Go still wins, and where it actually fits in 2026.
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10 Business
A framework for evaluating tech stack proposals: the five signals that actually decide whether a stack ages well, the noise that fools founders, and stories from three real businesses.
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09 Business
How to tell when your spreadsheet, Access DB, or legacy internal app has quietly outgrown itself, and what the real cost of keeping it looks like.
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08 Business
Three real rewrite engagements, what the original 'cheap' choice actually cost, and how to spot the same loan in your own business before it defaults.
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07 Business
A practical framework for founders deciding between off-the-shelf SaaS, custom software, or the hybrid most businesses actually need.
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06 Business
A practical filter for founders scoping a real launch: cut the features that don't belong in v1, and protect the ones that do.
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05 Engineering
Can someone build a framework, without reinventing the wheel or hallucinating over abstractions, that's actually good? Perhaps yes
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04 Engineering
The state of NestJS for REST APIs in 2023
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03 Engineering
Building a modern API with Typescript, Fastify, Typebox, Kysely, BullMQ, Paseto, SWC and Vitest
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02 Engineering
Can actually you write a REST API in Rust in 2023?
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01 Engineering
A comprehensive guide on turborepo
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