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Journal

Notes from the build queue: performance work, architecture decisions we would make again, and the ones we would not.

We stopped writing bespoke admin panels

Every custom admin panel we built was a small product with no product owner. Standardising on one internal pattern cut our build time by about a fifth.

Accessibility is mostly not a design problem

Across nine audits, most WCAG failures came from markup and focus handling, not from colour or layout. That changes who needs to fix them.