If you're a developer in 2026, you're almost certainly using an AI coding tool. The question is no longer whether to use one, but which one. The two dominant options are Cursor and Claude Code, and if you search around for a comparison you'll find a lot of benchmark tables and a lot of content written by people with something to sell. So I want to write this from a different angle. I'm a software engineer with 13 years of experience, I run a small agency building custom softw

A Custom Shopify App that allows customers to find the right wheel for their car, integrating seamlessly with existing systems and allowing the brand to scale to become an international business

My largest client started off as an eLearning site built with BuddyBoss, but pivoted to become the communication platform used by New Zealand's largest childcare centres. But they were running into serious scaling issues. Despite being hosted on rapyd.cloud - one of the fastest commercially avaialble web hosts, built specifically for complex BuddyBoss sites. I had done all I could, and they were already on rapyd's high performance plan, I told them I would look into a high e

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