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Artificial Intelligence
AI Tools
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AI agents are everywhere in vendor pitches right now, but the word alone doesn't tell you much. Here's what an agent actually does differently from
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Explore how we approach the craft of building reliable, maintainable software. Good development is about solving problems with clean code, thoughtful design, and continuous improvement. In this category, you'll find posts that share best practices, lessons learned, and insights from our work across projects and technologies.
A Project Manager's guide to WCAG 2.2 accessibility compliance: POUR principles, free audit tools, and AI-powered Claude Code skills for automated testing.
Wcag 2.2
Digital Accessibility
Project Management
Accessibility Audit
Ada Compliance
Be it for our own internal tooling or on our client’s projects, we’ve used a variety of package managers. When building our newest tool, we
Uv
Python
Heroku
In 2023, Ciera Jaspan and Collin Green, as part of the Engineering Productivity Research Team at Google, published a paper titled Defining, Measuring, and
Tech Debt
Technical Debt
Maturity Model
As a company, one of our core values is to be “open by default.” At the same time, one of our goals is to
Open Source
Hacktoberfest
Learning
This is part of our series on design sprints. If you haven’t read our previous articles, I encourage you to read more about our
User Experience
Product
UX
UX Research
You’ve signed a contract with an agency, awesome! At this point you already know that agencies like ours offer expertise and resources that can
Project Management
Best Practices
Tips
This is part of our series on design sprints. If you haven’t read our previous articles, I encourage you to read more about our
User Experience
Product Design
Design Sprint
In my previous post, I mentioned how I was having issues with populating my random maze. The main problem is that there isn’t
Data Structures
Graphs
Maze
Design Sprints lend themselves nicely to a virtual format, and digital tools can enhance this widely-used process developed by Google Ventures.
UX
UX Research
Product Design
Design Sprints
Day 3 is all about picking a direction and going forward with it. Over the course of the third day of the Design Sprint, we
Product Design
UX
UX Research
Design Sprint
So, our little exercise in design patterns is getting quite messy. Which is ironic, considering it’s an exercise in design patterns. The reason
Ruby
Design Patterns
Unit Testing
As a consultancy specializing in upgrades, dealing with legacy code is our bread and butter. Incompatible versions of Ruby, different version managers, C errors while
Devops
Docker
Virtualization
Have you ever wondered what the values on the request queue graph in the APM tool meant or whether a certain value indicated good or
Performance
Monitoring
Request Queue
If I were to ask you: tell me in one word or a number here, how satisfied are your users with the response times of
Performance Monitoring
Performance
Apdex Score
Upon integrating any performance monitoring tool for your application, you must be observing p95, p99 response times on the dashboards. If you are wondering what
Performance
Response Times
P95
P99
P50
