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In organisations today, data has never been more available. Dashboards and performance decks exist for almost every function — sales, product, marketing, operations — and the tools to build them have never been more accessible. And yet, in weekly standups and quarterly reviews, the same thing happens constantly: someone shares the numbers, the room nods, and the meeting ends ...

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Every website is at its best the day it ships. The final branch merges, the site goes live exactly as designed, and it is briefly perfect. It will never be this good again.

Not because anything breaks. The site keeps working. But the market moves, the m...

We know that everything on the web is a box by default, but you’ll find many animated <div>s pretending to be circles. But if you’ve ever met a real <circle>, you’ll know that they’ve got a lot more going for them. Dressed in SVG, they fit into a wider range of crowds than a humble <div> wearing HTML/CSS can. <img> has a strict no .html policy.

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There’s been a lot of confusion and panic this week about “huge fines”, “drastic measures” and “sweeping new AI rules” in the EU. In reality, it’s a lot more narrow — and a lot more sensible. And mostly it’s about making AI mor...