Field notes from the frontier.
What we've learned shipping software and design for companies across the continent. Opinionated, practical, occasionally contrarian.
Designing payments for the M-Pesa-first customer
Why a Stripe-shaped checkout fails in Nairobi, and the patterns we use to make mobile money feel native.
The case for boring technology
We ship Next.js, Postgres and Flutter on purpose. A look at how a deliberately small stack compounds over years.
Replacing the spreadsheet: a custom-software playbook
The five-step process we use to turn a tangle of spreadsheets into an ERP people actually want to use.
Motion as hierarchy, not decoration
How we use stagger reveals and count-ups to guide attention — and when animation quietly hurts a product.
Performance budgets for African connectivity
Real device, real network testing. The metrics we hold every build to before it sees production traffic.
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