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Practical write-ups on building web and mobile products — engineering, product decisions, and lessons learned along the way.

We cut publishing from 90 minutes to 5. The Strapi MCP server did half of it.
AI & Automation·July 25, 2026

We cut publishing from 90 minutes to 5. The Strapi MCP server did half of it.

Publishing one article in English, German and Serbian used to take up to two hours, almost none of it writing. It now takes five minutes. A field report on the Strapi MCP server, the skill layer that matters more, and the failure that only appeared once the pipeline got fast.

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Code review is the new bottleneck. What to change when AI writes half your code
Quality & Testing·July 25, 2026

Code review is the new bottleneck. What to change when AI writes half your code

AI made writing code cheap and reviewing it expensive. Faros AI measured 98% more pull requests and 91% longer review times on teams with high AI adoption. Here are the four options for your merge gate, which one we recommend, and what our answer costs us.

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Manual QA when AI writes the code: what to keep and what to automate
Quality & Testing·July 25, 2026

Manual QA when AI writes the code: what to keep and what to automate

AI writes the feature and the tests, the suite goes green, and nobody has checked whether the app is any good to use. Four ways to run QA and acceptance when most of your code is AI assisted, what each one misses, and the one I recommend.

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The Price of Code Is Zero. Here's What Clients Actually Pay Us For
Business & Strategy·July 20, 2026

The Price of Code Is Zero. Here's What Clients Actually Pay Us For

Generating code is basically free now, and AI bills are exploding. So what do clients actually pay a software company for? Judgment, proof that the build pays for itself, and control over what it costs to run. A founder's take on selling development in the AI era.

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How We Pick a Web Framework in 2026, and Why Laravel Keeps Winning Our Default Slot
Engineering·July 18, 2026

How We Pick a Web Framework in 2026, and Why Laravel Keeps Winning Our Default Slot

Every project starts with the same quiet argument. Here is the checklist we actually use, stability, security, speed, ORM, MVP speed and AI agentic readiness, scored honestly across Laravel, Django, Rails and Next.js, including the one job where we reach for something else.

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We Moved Search to Meilisearch and a 500ms Query Became 35ms
Engineering·July 13, 2026

We Moved Search to Meilisearch and a 500ms Query Became 35ms

We moved a parking app's search off the database onto Meilisearch. A complex query went from 500ms to 35ms, typos stopped killing results, and the map finally felt fluent. Notes on why fast, forgiving search is a sales feature.

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Your App Is Built. Now Comes the Part Nobody Warned You About
Mobile Development·July 4, 2026

Your App Is Built. Now Comes the Part Nobody Warned You About

Building an app and publishing it are two different projects. This is the plain reality of App Store and Google Play deployment for founders: the waiting times, the two week Android tax, the rejection loops, and the traps that quietly cost you your launch date.

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