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A BFF in front of every frontend
Why our public blog and our dashboard never talk to the API directly — and what the extra hop buys us in security, caching and simplicity.
Amina Odhiambo
Staff Engineer
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Notes from the team building Nanatec
Engineering notes, product updates and design thinking from the team building insurance and financial platforms at Nanatec.
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Autosave that never lies
Debounced, serialized and honest: how the editor decides when to say “Saved”, and what happens when two people edit at once.
Amina Odhiambo
Design
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Designing tokens for a calm, legible UI
A sage primary, warm neutrals and a type scale that never drops below 12px. How our colour roles keep light and dark mode in step.
Brian Kiptoo
Engineering
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Why we run MongoDB as a replica set everywhere
Even on a laptop. Transactions need a replica set, and we refuse to have a code path that only exists in production.
Wanjiru Mwangi
Engineering
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Accessible rich-text editing in practice
An accessible form around an inaccessible editor is still inaccessible. What we tested, what we fixed, and what we gave up.
Brian Kiptoo
Product
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Shipping a publishing workflow people trust
Draft, review, schedule, publish. Every transition is an explicit command, and every change can be undone.
Wanjiru Mwangi
Company
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What we learned from our first year
Fewer services, more boundaries. A look back at the decisions we would make again — and the two we would not.
Wanjiru Mwangi
Company
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Hiring for craft, not keywords
Our interview loop, start to finish — and why there is no whiteboard algorithm round.
Wanjiru Mwangi