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September 9, 2026

SSW 1996 to 2026 – A Fun 30 Year Website Journey

Adam Cogan .NET, .NET Core, General Markdown, Markdown Editor, Modern website design, Reminiscing, review, TinaCMS, website, websites 0 Comments

Last month, I posted about SSW’s homepage receiving a 2026 facelift! Looking back, this website has a long history of over 30 years. I thought it would be fun to share a few of the old homepages. Let’s take a trip back in time! I know, I know, some of them have aged better than […]

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July 29, 2026

SSW’s homepage receives a 2026 facelift!

Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, User Experience best practice, customer experience, Customer Journey, Design, landing pages, Redesign, UI, UX, websites 0 Comments

SSW’s new homepage is live after a UX and UI redesign focused on clarity, trust and conversion. See how comparative research, stronger hierarchy and progressively introduced proof turned a crowded homepage into a deliberate customer journey.

April 1, 2026

North Sydney Council Approves Critical Safety Link: Military Road Pedestrian Overpass Project

Adam Cogan General 2 Comments

(Copy from North Sydney Council portal) MEDIA RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENorth Sydney Council Approves Critical Safety Link: Military Road Pedestrian Overpass ProjectNEUTRAL BAY, NSW – North Sydney Council has formally approved the development of the Military Road Strategic Pedestrian Link, a $38.2 million infrastructure project aimed at eliminating high-risk foot traffic interactions on one of Sydney’s […]

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February 10, 2026

Migrating SSW Rules to TinaCMS & Next.js (and why it was worth it)

Adam Cogan General, SSW Projects, SSW Rules CMS, Content Editing, Content Management, Large Migrations, Migration Stories, Migrations, TinaCMS 2 Comments

We rebuilt our Rules editing experience so updates are fast, safe, and painless, no more unreliable saves or 20-minute deploys. Now changes go live in ~30 seconds, with review-friendly workflows that keep quality high.

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January 19, 2026

Adam’s 2025 Year in Review

Adam Cogan AI, General, SSW Projects 3 Comments

For us Aussies, December ended in a way that changed the tone of the whole year. The Bondi Beach mass shooting targeted a Jewish celebration and killed 15 people. This one was close to home (literally), as I live a couple of beaches down from Bondi and work with some Jewish team members at SSW. […]

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December 5, 2025

How to Handle Duplicate GitHub Issues Without Annoying Your Users

Adam Cogan AI, General, GitHub AI, Backlog, CX, Duplicates, github, GitHub Issues, GitHub Projects, Software Development 0 Comments

I love feedback. When you run a popular app or open source project like TinaCMS, duplicate issues are a good problem to have – it means people care enough to tell you about bugs or when they have good ideas. Teams I see at other companies see duplicates as noise, something to be swept away […]

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November 17, 2025

My Top 3 AI Image Generators (and why designers should use them)

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Every month, a new AI image generation model drops, and the internet declares, “design is over.” It isn’t. At SSW, our designers continue to ship plenty of brand assets (not limited to just SSW, TinaCMS and YakShaver), faster than usual, because they’re treating AI like a junior assistant. An Assistant that takes instructions via prompts, […]

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October 13, 2025

OpenAI – 2 Updates That Might Change How You Build Software

Adam Cogan AI, ChatGPT, General Agent Builder, AI, AI Agents, AI Automation, Automation, autonomous agents, Low-code, OpenAI 0 Comments

OpenAI just hosted their “DevDay 2025” and as usual, it’s a big update. They dropped heaps of things that are going to change the way we build software, but I’d like to focus on 2, which really blew my mind: AgentKit and Apps in ChatGPT. #1 AgentKit Agent SDK The new Agents SDK, currently in […]

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September 15, 2025

MCP as Your Integration Layer

Adam Cogan AI, General AI, MCP, Model Context Protocol 1 Comment

While working with teams, I’ve learnt that the best way to unlock innovation is to bring everyone together and work on a problem. We do this a few times a year by running Rules to Better Brainstorming Days. I love seeing developers step away from client work to share real pains and ideas, because the […]

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August 12, 2025

.NET Aspire 9.4 – CLI Magic and Developer-Friendly Dashboards

Adam Cogan .NET, General, Microsoft Aspire .NET, AI features, Aspire 9.4, Aspire CLI, GitHub Integrations, Microsoft Aspire, Resource Graph Dashboard 0 Comments

2 years ago, back in December of 2023, I blogged about the first release of .NET Aspire and how it promised to simplify distributed application development. Since then, the Microsoft team has been busy, releasing new features every few months, and now it’s matured a lot. I’m certain devs are going to love the updates. […]

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  • SSW 1996 to 2026 – A Fun 30 Year Website Journey
  • SSW’s homepage receives a 2026 facelift!
  • North Sydney Council Approves Critical Safety Link: Military Road Pedestrian Overpass Project
  • Migrating SSW Rules to TinaCMS & Next.js (and why it was worth it)
  • Adam’s 2025 Year in Review
  • How to Handle Duplicate GitHub Issues Without Annoying Your Users
  • My Top 3 AI Image Generators (and why designers should use them)
  • OpenAI – 2 Updates That Might Change How You Build Software
  • MCP as Your Integration Layer
  • .NET Aspire 9.4 – CLI Magic and Developer-Friendly Dashboards
  • How to Choose the Right Software Architecture
  • Beyond Automation: The Developer’s Guide to AI Agents
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