Practical thinking on software systems, automation, and the business problems they solve -- from the team at Digital Royalty.
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If your WordPress site uses the Forminator Forms plugin, make sure it is on version 1.57.2.1 or later. Anything older carries two published security flaws, one of which needs no login to use. The fix has been out since 17 September 2026,...
A good share of the “we need AI” conversations we have end up somewhere else entirely: with a process nobody...
Alex • June 24, 2026
When a client hires a software agency, the code is rarely the part that goes wrong. What goes wrong is...
Alex • June 19, 2026
The honest answer is that custom software costs anywhere from a few thousand pounds to several hundred thousand,...
Alex • June 16, 2026
The honest default is no. If all you need is to look at your numbers, Power BI, Looker,...
Alex • June 12, 2026
We build custom integrations for a living, and we’ll still tell you to use Zapier more often than...
Alex • June 9, 2026
Start from the position that you should buy, not build. For most needs, off-the-shelf software is cheaper, faster,...
Alex • June 5, 2026
There’s a point in most growing businesses where a task turns into a job. Someone is spending half...
Alex • June 2, 2026
The automations worth building are usually the boring ones. They take a job that happens constantly, costs real...
Alex • May 29, 2026
Off-the-shelf software is the right place to start. It’s cheap, it’s instant, and someone else maintains it. You...
Alex • May 26, 2026
Spreadsheets are the best tool there is for starting something, and one of the worst for running it...
Alex • May 22, 2026
The day custom software goes live is the day most people stop thinking about it. It’s also the...
Alex • May 19, 2026
