Notes on product engineering, stack decisions and shipping software.
2026-08-03
A practical, honest breakdown of where AI coding tools speed up real production work, and where hands-on engineering still wins.
AI tools can get a working prototype built in a weekend. Here's what breaks when real users show up, and the rescue pattern we use to take it to production.
We inherited an old, incomplete Flutter codebase for a telehealth platform. Here's how we decided what to keep, what to rebuild, and how we shipped it.
2026-08-01
Flutter Web is excellent for products behind a login. It is the wrong tool for a public marketing site — here's why, and what we replaced it with.
Lessons from building a user app, partner app and admin console for an astrology consultation marketplace in one MVP cycle.
We're not a single-framework shop. Here's the actual checklist we use to choose a stack for a new build, migration or platform modernization project.