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Logs are the single largest source of "we know we have the information but we can't find it" in software. Every team produces them. Most teams don't use them well. This is what we've learnt about making logs actually useful when something i…
Every year a new database promises to replace Postgres. Every year we start a new project on Postgres. This isn't inertia. It's a deliberate choice, and the reasoning has gotten stronger, not weaker, over the last five years. The case for P…
Shared hosting — the cPanel, the Bluehost-style "$3.95/month" plan, the box your aunt's craft business has been on since 2014 — is in an interesting place. It hasn't died, despite ten years of predictions. But what shared hosting actually i…
The cycle since 2023 has been roughly: hype, disappointment, quiet utility. We are firmly in the "quiet utility" phase. AI tools are in most web designers' workflows now. The teams getting real leverage out of them share a set of habits wor…
For most of the web's history, "crawler" meant Googlebot. Maybe Bingbot. A handful of well-behaved bots that read your site, indexed it, and sent you human visitors in return. The trade was understood. Both sides benefited. That trade broke…