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A little bit accessible isn't accessibleA French court has ordered Carrefour to make its online shop fully accessible, and refused to let an overall usability argument excuse the gaps. New Zealand's draft accessibility standard points in a similar direction. -
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Which workflows do you actually want to own?Custom software vs off-the-shelf: AI changed the maths. Six months of building our own shows which workflows are worth owning, and which to keep buying.
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Custom Software Isn't Just For Large Enterprises AnymoreOff-the-shelf software can look like the cheaper option, until workarounds, manual processes and poor fit start costing more than you realise. -
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Better Testing Workflows for Content AuthorsHow Zip'n'Ship solves Silverstripe content deployment: moving CMS records safely between UAT and Production, without the copy-paste risk. -
People and Culture
AI Didn't Break Your Codebase's Culture. It Just Found it, Faster.AI coding works best when a codebase makes its culture, decisions and conventions clear enough for an agent to follow. -
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How AI is Changing Legacy System ModernisationAI is changing the cost and complexity of legacy system modernisation. -
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Reducing Design & Development Drift with AIHow small AI checks reduced design and development drift. -
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Why Great Software Teams Embrace ComplexityModern software is too complex to understand completely. The best teams know what matters most. -
People and Culture
Signals from the NoiseI've had a discomfort building for a few weeks now, and this week it finally got a name. It started in June, one day at the NZ AI Roadshow in Christchurch. But it sharpened this week reading a piece doing the rounds called "The AI absorption gap." -
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You might just be thinking about AI efficiency wrongAI makes software cheaper to build but what matters is what you do with the savings.
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Andrew Hill's story: How Treshna started, grew, fell to the earthquakes, then rose to grow a global brand.GymMaster was losing money, but Andrew Hill went all in anyway... -
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Mainland Angels: how VC is reviving the South Island economyAs the Canterbury community manager for Mainland Angel Investors, Camille Hunt has been helping the organisation grow rapidly in the region thanks to her dedication, experience and shrewd eye for startups. -
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Serial entrepreneur Adam Hutchinson can’t stop having ideas.From brainstorming farm improvements as a kid in rural Whanganui to building a VR therapy company used in 64 countries, Adam Hutchinson's journey as a serial inventor has taught him that the biggest idea of all is getting comfortable with failure. -
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Behind the tech: Pivots, challenges and support: Appetise’s recipe for successWe’re back with another instalment of Behind the Tech – MadeCurious’s series spotlighting the people and pivots shaping NZ’s tech scene. This time, we caught up with Toby and Elise Hilliam, the husband-and-wife duo behind Appetise – a startup that began with dinner decision fatigue and ended up reshaping how food brands understand their customers.
Design & User Experience
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A little bit accessible isn't accessibleA French court has ordered Carrefour to make its online shop fully accessible, and refused to let an overall usability argument excuse the gaps. New Zealand's draft accessibility standard points in a similar direction. -
Design & User Experience
Building a Design System Without Over-Engineering ItMost design-system advice was written for design teams of fifteen, not teams of one. Here's what actually works when it's just you, and why the best version is usually the honest one. -
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Designing Enterprise Software UI: What Actually Matters in Real ProjectsEnterprise design lives in tension between efficiency, accessibility, ambition, and reality. The work that matters is the work that still functions when those tensions collide. -
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INP and the Illusion of Speed: Designing What Users Feel, Not SeeINP redefines performance, focusing on how fast an experience feels, not just how fast it is.
Development Practices
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Development Practices
Custom Software Isn't Just For Large Enterprises AnymoreOff-the-shelf software can look like the cheaper option, until workarounds, manual processes and poor fit start costing more than you realise. -
Development Practices
Better Testing Workflows for Content AuthorsHow Zip'n'Ship solves Silverstripe content deployment: moving CMS records safely between UAT and Production, without the copy-paste risk. -
Development Practices
How AI is Changing Legacy System ModernisationAI is changing the cost and complexity of legacy system modernisation. -
Development Practices
Reducing Design & Development Drift with AIHow small AI checks reduced design and development drift.
People and Culture
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People and Culture
AI Didn't Break Your Codebase's Culture. It Just Found it, Faster.AI coding works best when a codebase makes its culture, decisions and conventions clear enough for an agent to follow. -
People and Culture
Why Great Software Teams Embrace ComplexityModern software is too complex to understand completely. The best teams know what matters most. -
People and Culture
Signals from the NoiseI've had a discomfort building for a few weeks now, and this week it finally got a name. It started in June, one day at the NZ AI Roadshow in Christchurch. But it sharpened this week reading a piece doing the rounds called "The AI absorption gap." -
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AI Is Changing Software Engineering, Not How You ThinkAI is changing how software gets built, but not what makes it good.
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The Technology Stack Behind MadeCurious’ Complex Web ApplicationsThis article explains the proven technology stack MadeCurious uses to build secure, scalable and long-lasting web applications. -
Platforms & Languages
From Monitoring Chaos to Meaningful Observability: How We Adopted OpenTelemetryHow OpenTelemetry helped us bring clarity to a noisy, multi-environment monitoring setup. -
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Why Terraform?We asked our cloud engineer Steve why Terraform has become a trusted tool for building reliable, scalable digital foundations. -
Platforms & Languages
Beyond React (Part 2)Julia deep dives into the implementation of our selected approach
Success Stories
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Which workflows do you actually want to own?Custom software vs off-the-shelf: AI changed the maths. Six months of building our own shows which workflows are worth owning, and which to keep buying. -
Success Stories
Government Procurement Reform in NZ: A Real World TestA firsthand look at how New Zealand’s 2025 government procurement reforms are reshaping digital projects. -
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Reconnecting Māori with Their MaraeMarae are the cultural and social and political hubs of iwi and hapū. They are more than just meeting spaces; they are vital links to whakapapa (genealogy) and identity, but these connections are getting harder to maintain in the face of urban migration and modern challenges. -
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Scaling Environmental Remediation - Lessons from the Kaipara MoanaHow we built a scalable digital solution for environmental remediation with KMR—insights on impact, sustainability, and tech.