Insights & perspectives
Thoughts on design, development, and building digital products that make a difference.
Core Web Vitals — What They Measure and Why You Should Care
Google uses Core Web Vitals to rank your site. More importantly, they measure the experience real users have. Here is a practical guide to understanding and improving each metric.
Utility-First CSS Changed How We Think About Design Systems
We resisted Tailwind CSS for two years. Then we tried it on a real project and understood what the hype was about. Here is our honest take on utility-first CSS after shipping dozens of sites with it.
Advice for Developers Starting Their Careers in 2024
The roadmaps and bootcamp curriculums will give you technical skills. This post covers everything else — the habits, decisions, and perspectives that actually determine career trajectory.
Headless CMS — The Architecture That Freed Our Content
Decoupling the content management layer from the presentation layer changed how we build sites. Here is what headless CMS actually means and when it makes sense.
Performance Is Not a Feature — It Is the Product
Users do not experience your architecture. They experience speed. Here is how we approach front-end performance at Kotito and why most optimization advice misses the point.
Modern CSS Is Underrated — Features You Should Be Using Today
Container queries, cascade layers, subgrid, and logical properties are shipping in every major browser. If you are still writing CSS like it is 2018, this post is for you.
Why We Chose Astro and Would Do It Again
After evaluating Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, and Gatsby, we built Kotito on Astro. Here is the reasoning behind the decision and what we have learned after shipping real projects with it.