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Why Can't AI Just Build This App For Us?
TX-04 · AI13 Feb 2026

Why can't AI just build this app for us?

We get asked this question a LOT these days. And frankly, it's a hard one to answer without sounding self-serving. But at the end of the day, AI is a tool — one that even WE use.

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Picking the Right Tool for the Job
TX-03 · Engineering28 Aug 2025

Picking the right tool for the job

Agencies will ALWAYS push their favourite technology. One shop insists on native, another on React Native, another on Flutter. The thing is — each of them is correct, and each of them is totally wrong.

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Framework & Fairphone
TX-02 · Hardware18 Aug 2025

Framework & Fairphone — we like our hardware like our software

Modular, repairable, and ours. The hardware finally changes with our needs — not the other way around — and it matches the software we develop and love perfectly.

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2025: The Year of the Linux (Omarchy) Desktop
TX-01 · Linux16 Aug 2025

2025: The year of the Linux (Omarchy) desktop

We've been all Linux, all the time since 2016 — and for the first time in years, there has been ZERO distro-hopping within these walls. This may FINALLY be the year of the Linux Desktop.

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