Journal
Notes from the workshop.
Essays on building products, SEO that compounds, photography, and reading patterns — technical and otherwise.
EDGE Grant for Ecommerce Websites: IMDA Pre-Approved Solutions vs Custom Builds
An ecommerce website should support how your business sells, manages orders and serves customers. For Singapore SMEs exploring EDGE grant support, the first step is understanding whether a pre-approved solution meets those needs or whether additional custom development is necessary. These options can overlap. A pre-approved solution may offer design choices and configurable features, while…
Freelance Web Designer vs Agency in Singapore: Which Should Your SME Hire?
Your website is often the first place a customer checks before calling, booking or buying. For a Singapore SME, choosing who builds it matters. Two options come up most often: hire a freelance web designer in Singapore, or work with a web design agency. Each suits a different kind of project. This guide covers where…
Critical PHP Vulnerabilities: How We Responded Across 40 Client Websites
When a critical security vulnerability emerges, your business needs someone who can understand the risk and respond. Following the disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, we patched 40 client websites as part of our response within 12 hours. For our clients, this is a practical example of what ongoing website care means: having a developer who…
EDGE Grant Singapore: The Complete 2026 Guide for SMEs (Eligibility, Funding Caps, How to Apply)
Planning an online store or a website upgrade? Start by checking which EDGE activity fits your project. A clear scope helps you compare quotations and understand which expenses may receive support. What Is the EDGE Grant? EDGE is Enterprise Singapore’s activity-based business grant. It launched on 30 September 2026, bringing together support previously provided through…
10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Freelance Web Developer in Singapore
Hiring a freelance web developer in Singapore can get you a faster, more personal, and often cheaper result than going to an agency. It can also leave you with a half-finished site and a developer who stopped replying. What decides which one you get is usually how well you screened the developer before the project…
Freelance Web Developer Rates in Singapore: Hourly vs Project Pricing
Hiring a freelance web developer in Singapore usually starts with one question: should you pay by the hour or agree on a fixed project price? Each model shifts risk, flexibility, and budget control in a different direction. Founders, marketers, and SME owners who understand those trade-offs before asking for quotes tend to get clearer proposals…
PSG vs EDG: What Singapore Businesses Should Know About the EDGE Grant
PSG vs EDG: What Singapore Businesses Should Know About the EDGE Grant Singapore businesses researching digital grants often start by comparing the Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG) and Enterprise Development Grant (EDG). If you have been reading older guides or discussing a PSG-supported solution with a vendor, there is an important update. PSG and EDG closed…
EDGE Grant for Website & App Projects: Eligibility and How to Apply
EDGE Grant for Website & App Projects: Eligibility and How to Apply Planning a website, e-commerce platform, customer portal or mobile app for your business? Singapore’s EDGE Grant offers support for eligible business activities, including digitalisation. Whether your project qualifies depends on the selected activity, its requirements and the proposed scope. A website or app…
How to Hire a Freelance Web Developer in Singapore
How to Hire a Freelance Web Developer in Singapore Hiring a freelance web developer in Singapore can get you a fast, affordable website without the overhead of an agency. It can also leave you with missed deadlines, sloppy code, or a site you can’t update. The difference usually comes from how you hire, more than…
Mobile App Development Cost in Singapore: Full Breakdown
Mobile App Development Cost in Singapore: Full Breakdown If you’re planning a mobile app, the first question is usually the budget. In Singapore, the cost depends mainly on how complex the app is, which platforms it runs on, who builds it, and how much support it needs after launch. A simple app with a few…
Freelance Web Designer vs Agency in Singapore: Which Should You Hire?
Freelance Web Designer vs Agency in Singapore: Which Should You Hire? Choosing between a freelance web designer in Singapore and a full-service agency affects your budget, your launch date and how easy your site is to run years later. Both can produce an excellent website. The right choice depends on how complex the project is,…
Shopify vs WooCommerce for Singapore Online Sellers
If you’re starting an online store in Singapore, the choice usually narrows down to Shopify or WooCommerce. Both work well for local sellers, but they suit different people. Shopify is a hosted, all-in-one service: you pay a monthly fee and it handles the technical side. WooCommerce is a free plugin that turns a WordPress site…
How to Sell Online in Singapore Without Shopee or Lazada
Shopee and Lazada make it easy to start selling, but you pay for that ease. Commissions and fees cut into every sale. Price wars pull you toward the lowest seller. The platform also owns the customer relationship, so you can’t build a list or a brand. More Singapore sellers now sell through channels they control…
How to Start an Ecommerce Store in Singapore: Step-by-Step Guide
Singapore is a good place to start an online business. Internet use is high, digital payments are part of daily life, and the island is small enough that local deliveries are quick. It’s also a busy market, so you need a clear plan before you launch. This guide covers the steps to start an ecommerce…
WordPress vs Wix vs Squarespace: Best Website Builder for Singapore SMEs
Choosing the best website builder in Singapore comes down to three questions. How much control do you need? How much time can your team spend on maintenance? How fast do you plan to grow? WordPress, Wix and Squarespace can all produce a professional site. They suit different businesses, though, and switching platforms later is expensive.…
Do Property Agents in Singapore Need Their Own Website?
Do Property Agents in Singapore Need Their Own Website? Most property agents in Singapore already list on the major property portals, post on social media and manage leads through WhatsApp. So is a personal website worth the effort? For most agents who want a lasting personal brand, it is. Portals bring traffic, but you don’t…
Mobile App Development Cost in Singapore: A 2026 Guide
Mobile App Development Cost in Singapore: A 2026 Guide Mobile app development cost in Singapore depends on four things: how complex the app is, which platforms it runs on, who builds it, and how much support it needs after launch. A simple app with a few screens costs far less than a marketplace with payments,…
Corporate Website Redesign Checklist for Singapore SMEs
Corporate Website Redesign Checklist for Singapore SMEs Your corporate website is often the first thing a prospect, partner, or job applicant checks before they contact you. For many Singapore SMEs, that site was built years ago. It loads slowly on mobile, it’s hard to update, and it no longer matches how the business has grown.…
How to Choose a Web Design Agency in Singapore
How to Choose a Web Design Agency in Singapore Your website is often the first place a prospective customer meets your business. For Singapore companies, where buyers compare options quickly on their phones, a slow, confusing or outdated site can lose you leads before anyone picks up the phone. Choosing the right web design agency…
Next.js vs WordPress: Which Is Right for Your Singapore Business?
Next.js vs WordPress: Which Is Right for Your Singapore Business? Choosing between Next.js and WordPress is one of the first decisions a Singapore business makes when building or rebuilding a website. Both can produce fast, well-ranked sites. They suit different teams, budgets and growth plans. This guide covers cost, performance, SEO, security and day-to-day upkeep…
How Much Does a Website Cost in Singapore in 2026?
Building a website in Singapore in 2026 can range from a few hundred dollars for a simple template-based site to tens of thousands for a custom-built platform with advanced functionality. The final number depends on who builds it, what it needs to do, and how much ongoing support it requires. This guide breaks down the…
Reading a BaZi chart without the mysticism
BaZi (八字, literally “eight characters”) gets dismissed by skeptics as fortune-telling and oversold by hype as prophecy. Both miss what the framework is actually built to do. Strip away the theatre and it’s closer to a structured personality-and-timing model than a crystal ball — one that happens to have a few thousand years of recorded…
One codebase, three platforms: when Capacitor is the right call
“Native or hybrid?” is the wrong first question. It assumes every mobile app is competing on the same axis — buttery 120fps animation, deep OS integration, the feel of a flagship consumer app — when most business apps are competing on a completely different one: does it exist on iOS, Android and the web before…
The Core Web Vitals that actually move rankings
Core Web Vitals get treated as a compliance checkbox — a score to chase in a Lighthouse report, disconnected from anything a visitor actually feels. That’s backwards. The three metrics Google measures (Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, and Cumulative Layout Shift) are trying to quantify the same three things that make a site…