Engineering notes
What we hit on live projects, including the parts that went wrong. Written for people who have to make the decision, not for search engines.
Your website is slow because of the fourth-party scripts you forgot about
A chat widget loads an analytics tag which loads a session recorder. Three tags in your manager become eleven requests in the browser.
When a WordPress site is the right answer, and when it stops being one
The honest version: most business sites should be WordPress until a specific constraint says otherwise. Here are the constraints.
The Play Store rejection reasons that catch first-time publishers
Data safety declarations, background location, and target API levels account for most first-submission failures. All are avoidable.
Backups you have never restored are not backups
A quarterly restore drill takes an afternoon and is the single cheapest piece of insurance in your stack.
Design your empty states before your dashboards
Every screen has a first-run version with no data in it. Designing that last is why so many products feel broken on day one.
Fixed price or time and materials? Neither, exactly
Why we quote per stage, what that protects on both sides, and where it still goes wrong.