ericwoo_kr Introduction I’ll tell you straight up—running volunteer teams without burning a hole in your pocket can be a wild ride, especially as we hit 2026. I’ve spent countless nights strategizing efficient ways to juggle projects with zero budget. It’s a kind of dance between optimism and sheer necessity. Many of us leading these teams do … Read more
The Problem That Made Me Try Both The sprint planning meeting that broke me happened on a Tuesday afternoon. Four of us had the same Google Sheet open — the one we’d been using as a “temporary” backlog tracker for eight months — and we were watching each other’s cursors collide in real time. Someone’s … Read more
Why Healthcare App Development is a Different Beast Most apps you build are forgiving. You ship a bug, you push a fix, users are mildly annoyed. Healthcare is not that. The first time a client asks you to pull an audit log of every field that was touched on a patient record — and you … Read more
The Problem With Letting Netlify Own Your Build Pipeline Netlify’s Git integration is genuinely great for the first week of a project. You connect a repo, it detects your framework, and deploys happen automatically on every push. That convenience has a ceiling, and most teams hit it faster than they expect. The ceiling I hit … Read more
Why I Stopped Recommending Asana to Nonprofits The Moment I Knew Asana Wasn’t Built for This The thing that broke it for me was Gantt charts — or rather, Asana quietly locking timeline view behind a paid plan. I was helping a small animal rescue org map out their summer adoption event schedule across four … Read more
I Needed a Single Source of Truth for a Distributed Team — So I Tested Both The actual breaking point wasn’t the Slack message limit. It was when our lead designer submitted a spec update in Google Docs, the PM acknowledged it in a Slack thread that later vanished into the 90-day void, and I … Read more
Why Healthcare App Dev Is a Different Beast Pick the wrong low-code platform for a healthcare project and you won’t just waste a sprint — you’ll spend three months ripping out integrations that never should have been built. I’ve seen teams get six weeks into a patient portal build before realizing their chosen platform logs … Read more
The Problem With Netlify’s Default Git Integration Netlify’s built-in Git integration is genuinely great — right up until your team grows past one person or your site does anything more interesting than render HTML. The default behavior is simple: push to main, Netlify picks it up, your site is live in 60–90 seconds. No friction. … Read more
Why You’d Want GitHub Actions Handling Your Netlify Deploys Netlify’s built-in Git integration is genuinely good — until you need it to do something slightly outside its happy path. The second your build process requires more than “install, build, deploy,” you hit a wall. You can’t inject a secret mid-build without exposing it as an … Read more
The $600/Year Problem Nobody Talks About Check your last Adobe renewal email. Not the one from three years ago — the most recent one. If you’re on the All Apps plan, you’re probably staring at somewhere between $599 and $659/year depending on when you locked in your pricing and whether Adobe decided to bump it … Read more