Notes from the studio .

Long-form posts about the craft of building software, designing brands, and running a calm agency. We publish about twice a month.

Blog

What we learned shipping a 100-page Next.js site in 6 weeks.

Latest writing from the team.

FEAT

What we learned shipping a 100-page Next.js site in 6 weeks.

A retrospective on a recent enterprise CMS build — what worked, what we'd do differently, and why we picked App Router despite the warnings. Includes the full architecture diagram and the bits we open-sourced.

Engine

Why we still pick Laravel for new projects in 2026

Spoiler: it's the documentation. Eight more reasons inside.

Design

The case against the page builder

Faster sites, happier editors, and a smaller maintenance bill.

Market

GA4 dashboards that actually get opened

Stop reporting on bounce rate. Report on revenue.

Mobile

Compose vs SwiftUI: a 2026 fairness audit

We shipped the same app twice. Here's what we learned.

SEO

What technical SEO looks like in 2026

Crawl budgets are out. Web Vitals are very, very in.

Design

Designing for 200 design tokens

Tokens Studio, Figma Variables, and our internal token playbook.

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