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Recent
2026-04-18
Pragmatic RAG: nine months of lessons from four real builds
What we keep doing, what we abandoned, and the one thing every team gets wrong.
AI
2026-03-29
The case for a monolith in 2026
Microservices solved a coordination problem most teams don't have yet.
Architecture
2026-03-11
Design tokens we actually use (and the ones we don't)
A small, opinionated token system that has survived six product redesigns.
Design
2026-02-22
How we cut onboarding time in half — without writing a feature
Sometimes the kindest thing you can ship is a deletion.
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