Notes

Decisions, and why they went that way.

Writing that comes out of work actually shipped — what the constraint was, what we chose, and what it cost. Nothing researched and repackaged.

3 notes · roughly one a fortnight

1 September 2026 · 6 min
Seven questions to ask before you subcontract a build
What a design or marketing agency should establish before handing a client's project to an outside development partner — including the two questions nobody asks until it has gone wrong.
14 August 2026 · 5 min
Money in a ledger should never be a floating-point number
An ERP that is approximately right is worse than the spreadsheets it replaced. Three decisions that follow from taking that seriously.
24 July 2026 · 5 min
Multi-tenant isolation is not a WHERE clause
Filtering by tenant id and isolating tenants are different things, and the difference only shows up on the day it matters most.