Journal
Field notes from the studio.
Posts from the studio: project notes, craft posts, and the occasional opinion on tooling. We write a couple of times a month when we have something useful to say.
Why we still write PHP in 2026
A year of small-shop client work later, the boring stack keeps winning. Here's why we haven't moved off PHP, and what the trade-off actually looks like.
How we itemise quotes
Our proposal template, for anyone who wants to copy it. Six line items, no "phases", and every number traces back to an hour estimate.
Image pipelines for tiny teams
A pragmatic image setup that works for a four-person studio. AVIF where it's safe, srcset everywhere, and a single CLI script that runs on commit.
The 11 questions we ask in every kickoff
A short list of questions that surface every problem we've had on a project, before the work starts. Free to copy, but you'll need to actually ask them.