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Notes from the studio.
Things we worked out, usually the hard way. Written for the person who is about to hit the same problem.
Web performance
Why we build for a 3G connection first
Designing against the connection your users actually have, rather than the one on your desk, changes almost every technical decision you make — and it is much harder to retrofit than to start with.
Localisation
Devanagari on the web: the parts that still break
Nepali text renders fine until it does not. A practical list of the failures we keep running into — font fallback, line breaking, search, sorting and form validation — and what to do about each.
AI & automation
What we actually mean when we say AI automation
Roughly half the AI requests we receive are better solved without a model. Here is how we decide which half a project is in, and why we tell clients when the cheaper answer is the right one.
Practice
Your developer should not own your domain
A depressingly common situation: the business grows, the relationship ends, and nobody can log in to the domain registrar. What to check in your own setup this week.
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