Software Development Insights & Articles

LCP and CLS are largely solved by modern frameworks; Interaction to Next Paint is where sites still fail, often with excellent lab scores. What actually pushes INP past the threshold, why field data is the only number that counts, and a fix order that works.

Most breaches are not clever: a missing authorisation check, an old committed key, a compromised dependency pulled in by a build server. The issues we find in real audits, why AI-drafted code needs a specific kind of review, and a proportionate baseline for a small team.

Coding assistants became agents this year: they read the repository, run the tests and open pull requests. Here is what genuinely works in a professional team — task scoping, model routing by difficulty, and a verification loop strong enough that a fast diff is also a safe one.

Most teams have a test suite; fewer have one anybody trusts. Why the shape of the suite matters more than the tooling, where AI-generated tests quietly cement bugs, and how to build coverage in the order that actually pays.

Server Components are stable, the App Router is the mature implementation, and the React Compiler has removed most hand-written memoisation. What a server-first application looks like in practice, where it is the wrong answer, and how to migrate an existing app route by route.

The gap between shipping daily and shipping fortnightly is rarely the tooling — it is the size of each release. A pipeline, preview environments, feature flags and a rehearsed rollback, sized for a team of three to fifteen rather than an enterprise.

The legacy bridge has been removed rather than deprecated, and current Expo SDKs ship the New Architecture as the only option. What breaks during migration, how to sequence the work so the app stays shippable, and how much time to budget for it.

The European Accessibility Act applies on the basis of where your customers are, not where you are registered. Which WCAG 2.2 criteria catch existing sites out, what automated scans cannot tell you, and a remediation order that gets results.

More customers now get their answer inside an assistant than on a results page. What actually earns a citation — server-rendered content, structured data, a direct answer near the top — and why crawler access has become a deliberate business decision.

MCP has become the standard way to give an assistant access to your CRM, orders and internal documentation without rewriting the integration for every vendor. What businesses are connecting, how to keep it safe, and whether to build a server or adopt one.