Our Blog: Web Development Since 2003

Based in Lafayette, Colorado (just down the street from Boulder), we've been helping businesses solve their web development challenges for over 20 years. From Government agencies to Manufacturing companies, we build tools that actually work.

When WordPress Stops Scaling

WordPress shines for blogs and small stores — but at a certain point, optimizing it turns into fighting it. If your site crashes during traffic spikes, you're afraid to update anything, or you're duct-taping plugins together just to get custom workflows working, it might be time to stop patching and start rebuilding. Here's how to know when you've outgrown WordPress.

Why Engineers Should Care About Emotions

Every bug report, stakeholder meeting, and code review is an emotional transaction before it's a technical one. "Frustrated" and "overwhelmed" lead to very different fixes — and so do "dismissive" and "skeptical" in a PR comment. Naming the feeling precisely is a debugging skill. Here's an interactive emotion wheel and why it belongs in your technical toolkit.