Why a blog?
We spend our days building mobile apps, APIs, infrastructure, and smart homes for other people. Along the way we accumulate opinions — about tools that are better than their documentation suggests, patterns that quietly save projects, and automations that clients actually use instead of politely ignoring.
Until now, those opinions lived in Slack threads and post-mortems. The Cookie Jar is where we’ll put them instead: honest write-ups of what worked, what didn’t, and what Rocky deleted along the way.
What to expect
Three kinds of posts, roughly. Tech posts are the practical ones — Home Assistant setups, backend patterns, DevOps lessons from real projects. Studio posts are about how we work: process, tooling, the occasional strong opinion about estimates. And Crew posts are about the four animals who supervise everything we ship, because frankly they generate more content than the codebase does.
We aim for a post every couple of weeks. No SEO filler, no “10 reasons why” listicles, no AI-generated fluff about synergy. If we publish it, it’s because we’d want to read it.
The name
The Cookie Jar felt right. It’s where the good stuff is kept, everyone sneaks into it when nobody’s watching, and Cookie — the original good girl this whole studio is named after — strongly approves of anything jar-adjacent.
Got a topic you’d like us to cover? Email us. If it’s a good one, we’ll bake it.