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Thinking from DabApps on AI, product design, software engineering and digital transformation.

Software / engineering practicePythonAI / ML

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114 from 8 May 2011 to 19 Oct 2026
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monthly (13 in the last year)
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2026 11

  1. 5 min read When forward deployed engineering helps, what makes an engagement work, and how DabApps approaches it. By Jamie Matthews
  2. 3 min read Building Amaze’s Story Trail app and sponsoring a BookBench in our home city. By Catrina Baker-Bassett
  3. 5 min read New ways to reach customers, build agents and fund AI features. Here’s where we see product opportunities after OpenAI DevDay 2026. By Jamie Matthews
  4. 8 min read Compare business value, information quality and risk to choose a manageable first AI automation project. By Ed Hickey
  5. 6 min read Adding AI increasingly means making an existing web app usable by the AI agents your customers already use. By Jamie Matthews
  6. 2 min read AI-assisted development is narrowing the cost gap between experienced UK software teams and offshore development. By Chris Palk
  7. 8 min read How to assess whether an AI partner can identify the right problem, integrate with real systems and support the resulting software after launch. By Ed Hickey
  8. 4 min read Our rebuilt website clearly reflects DabApps’ growing focus on practical AI transformation, alongside the product, design and engineering work at our core. By Mark Aaron
  9. 4 min read Why predictable Django codebases help people and coding agents work effectively. By Jamie Matthews
  10. 2 min read Pretty much every International Women’s Day I find myself reflecting on the pace of change in our industry. By Catrina Baker-Bassett
  11. 5 min read Context, constraints and control are the guardrails that turn clever AI demos into production systems. By Jamie Matthews

2025 9

  1. 5 min read A practical, proven approach to structuring Django projects that need to last. By Jamie Matthews
  2. Hope is the Thing with Feathers - Reflections on Poetry, Code, and the Human Spirit | DabApps
  3. Designing User Experiences for the Age of AI | DabApps
  4. Working with AI: How Human-AI Collaboration is Shaping Agency Development | DabApps
  5. Navigating The New Normal: Embracing Uncertainty and The Non-Deterministic Future of AI Apps | DabApps
  6. Greener Charge: Under the Hood | DabApps
  7. Introducing Greener Charge: Our New Tool for Smarter EV Charging | DabApps
  8. Vibe Coding and the Enduring Value of Software Agencies in 2025 | DabApps
  9. Could AI Bring About a Hypermedia Renaissance? | DabApps

2024 6

  1. Software won’t save the planet - but it’s vital for the industries that can | DabApps
  2. Designing digital products: The art between the lines. | DabApps
  3. Software for a Sustainable Future | DabApps
  4. What Software engineers really think about AI | DabApps
  5. Do you do AI at DabApps? | DabApps
  6. How do you design a website for multiple users with different needs? | DabApps

2023 4

  1. It’s good to talk | DabApps
  2. You’d like to do a placement year, but don’t know where to start? | DabApps
  3. A new chapter - DabApps Partners with Certn | DabApps
  4. We’ve had a makeover | DabApps

2022 2

  1. The Different Stages of Prototyping | DabApps
  2. Optimising Django Queries - Django Chat with Jamie Matthews | DabApps

2021 2

  1. Software Development Terminology: Decoding ‘MVP’ | DabApps
  2. DabApps at MTPCON 2021 | DabApps

2020 4

  1. Employee engagement software done right - WeThrive are thriving! | DabApps
  2. Digital Marketing and Social Media | DabApps
  3. Python in Production at DabApps | DabApps
  4. DabApps Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training | DabApps

2019 9

  1. How can I deliver a great user experience for my customers? | DabApps
  2. Looking back on another year of Corporate Social Responsibility | DabApps
  3. DabApps does maps - a team adventure in the South Downs | DabApps
  4. Five reasons why hosting on Heroku benefits our customers | DabApps
  5. Women in tech - Django Girls, London 2019 | DabApps
  6. The problem with laziness: minimising performance issues caused by Django's implicit database queries | DabApps
  7. Design discovery techniques for app success - making something the best it can be. | DabApps
  8. Programming and Cognitive Load | DabApps
  9. Under The Hood | DabApps

2018 5

  1. What's The Purpose Of Your App? | DabApps
  2. Doing Business In Cardiff | DabApps
  3. We’ve Opened A New Office | DabApps
  4. Please Adjust Your Set | DabApps
  5. Welcome to our new website | DabApps

2017 3

  1. Technology Driven Decision Making | DabApps
  2. Blooming Marvellous! | DabApps
  3. Amaze launches Compass Card West Sussex | DabApps

2016 9

  1. Tom Christie funded to work full-time on open source | DabApps
  2. Why I use Markdown for Documentation | DabApps
  3. Women in technology: reflections on the gender gap | DabApps
  4. Most Inspiring Woman in Technology 2015 | DabApps
  5. Successful ‘Women In Tech’ Are Choosing DabApps - Caroline Oldham | DabApps
  6. Successful ‘Women In Tech’ Are Choosing DabApps - Hannah McIntyre | DabApps
  7. Award Winning Client Hannah McIntyre | DabApps
  8. Life As A New Member Of The DabApps Team | DabApps
  9. Clean Drinking Water - Doing Our Bit | DabApps

2015 14

  1. We’ve Moved! | DabApps
  2. DabApps - RAR Digital Award Finalist! | DabApps
  3. What’s New Pussycat? | DabApps
  4. Boxing to Beat Cancer | DabApps
  5. AOGsmart Takes Off! | DabApps
  6. I’d Like To Tell You About Brighton & Hove Skills Exchange... | DabApps
  7. New Kids On The Block | DabApps
  8. New Garage Compare Website For UK Motorists | DabApps
  9. Be Amazed... Charity App Launch | DabApps
  10. And The Winner Is... | DabApps
  11. Sustainable open source management | DabApps
  12. Business Winning App | DabApps
  13. New App Aids Food Allergy Sufferers | DabApps
  14. CrunchBoards Launch At XeroCon, Sydney | DabApps

2014 12

  1. Django models, encapsulation and data integrity | DabApps
  2. How Recruiting Graduates Benefits Our Business | DabApps
  3. Our First Kickstarter Campaign: Django REST framework 3 | DabApps
  4. Kickstarter Campaign Receives £30k Thumbs Up! | DabApps
  5. Travel App That's Going Places | DabApps
  6. DabApps Tops Government Digital Survey | DabApps
  7. DabApps Creates Charity App | DabApps
  8. New TootCompare Affiliate | DabApps
  9. What'sApp Next? | DabApps
  10. We've Teamed Up With CrunchBoards | DabApps
  11. Most Popular Website 2013 | DabApps
  12. Redesigning Django's generic class based views | DabApps

2013 12

  1. Brighton Digital Festival: DabApps Open Studio | DabApps
  2. Web API performance: profiling Django REST framework | DabApps
  3. A non-magical introduction to Pip and Virtualenv for Python beginners | DabApps
  4. DabApps Now Working With TrustedHousesitters.com | DabApps
  5. Some thoughts on learning Python, Django and Objective-C | DabApps
  6. Performance Heisenbugs and Premature Optimisation | DabApps
  7. Be Agile | DabApps
  8. Together We're Better | DabApps
  9. Interface 2013 | DabApps
  10. Announcing our API backend services | DabApps
  11. Announcement: DabApps training courses starting in March | DabApps
  12. Summer 2012 News | DabApps

2012 5

  1. Building a higher-level query API: the right way to use Django's ORM | DabApps
  2. DabApps Engineering Labs | DabApps
  3. COLPability Launch | DabApps
  4. Welcoming Tom Christie | DabApps
  5. Brighton Brains | DabApps

2011 7

  1. Kickstart web app development with Twitter's Bootstrap | DabApps
  2. Python tools for local continuous integration | DabApps
  3. Prototyping Pays | DabApps
  4. DabApps website launch | DabApps
  5. Logging SQL queries with Django 1.3 | DabApps
  6. Tesco Cars launch | DabApps
  7. DabApps in the heart of Brighton | DabApps