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11 March 2026
Expo over native — lessons learned from a cross-platform app For most apps, Expo is enough — faster, cheaper, one codebase. And it brings infrastructure you would otherwise have to build yourself. Where it delivered, where it hurt, and when it has to be native after all.
Architecture 7 min 11 February 2026 Astro over Next.js — the frontend decision that mostly never gets made When picking a frontend, teams often only weigh the "big" ones — Next, Nuxt and the like. For websites, landing and marketing pages, Astro is frequently the better choice on maintenance, performance and bloat. An assessment — using this site as the example.
Architecture 8 min 14 January 2026 The mid-market stack, part 3: serverless in house — functions without Cloudflare Cloudflare Workers are technically excellent — and still put some companies off. How to get functions behind a URL just as easily, without leaving your own stack. The finale of the mid-market stack series.
Architecture 7 min 10 December 2025 The mid-market stack, part 2: Terraform for small teams — when it starts to pay off Clicking it together is faster — until a few months later nobody knows what is actually running. Why Terraform pays off from the very first person in the IT team, and where it turns into an overhead trap. Part 2 of the mid-market stack series.
Cloud 7 min 12 November 2025 The mid-market stack, part 1: Hetzner instead of a hyperscaler — when it is enough, when it is not "Cloud" reflexively means AWS or Google for many mid-sized companies. That is often the most expensive answer to a question nobody asked. Part 1 of a series on a modern, affordable stack without enterprise overhead.
Cloud 7 min 08 October 2025 Choosing a CMS in 2025: when enterprise, when open source — an assessment. AEM-certified, Magento certified — and my own project runs on open source. Not a contradiction, but exactly the question every CMS decision is really about. An assessment from fifteen years of selection processes.
E-Commerce 7 min 10 September 2025 What I keep from 15 years in an agency — and what I now do deliberately differently. After fifteen years of agency work and team leadership, I drew a line in early 2025 and started out solo. Not a break with the past — more a deliberate inventory: what was genuinely good, what was only habit, and what cost more energy than it was worth.
Leadership 6 min