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Plain talk about building things properly.

Notes from twenty years of building and fixing software - what goes wrong, why it goes wrong, and what it costs when nobody catches it early.

28 October 2026 5 min read

Oh, You're an Interior Designer! Can I Remove This Load-Bearing Wall?

Web developers vs web dilly-dalliers. An opinion piece, and not a popular one. If your web designer has never configured a server, they're not a developer. Here is how to tell the difference before it costs you.

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6 September 2026 6 min read

You Changed Your Own Brake Pads. Now Rebuild My Engine.

Why amateur AI Development is a risk to your business.... AI writes working code. It will not tell you what you forgot to ask for. Here is what I actually find under the bonnet when we are called in to clean up an amateur build.

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