Insights

Notes from the work.

Engineering deep-dives, design notes, and the occasional company update.

The cost of mocking the database

Mocked tests pass while production migrations break. Here's a pattern we use to keep tests fast without losing the truth of a real database.

Why we alternate light and dark full-bleed tiles on every site we build — and the rules that keep it from looking generic.

How a small process change cut our gate-cleanup debt to zero, with a one-line agent that opens a removal PR two weeks after a flag goes 100%.

What we're investing in this year — including a renewed focus on managed AI infrastructure for compliance-heavy clients.

Our internal playbook for shipping AI features safely — and why eval harnesses are the first PR, not the last.

We applied the same museum-quiet principles to our agency pricing page that we apply to client work. Here's what changed.

One thoughtful email a month — engineering essays, post-mortems, and the work we're proudest of.