Studio Notes3 min
Welcome to the Studio — what this blog is, and what it is not
A short note on why we started writing again, the cadence we are committing to, and the four things you can expect to find here.
Ali AlibrahimiThe Studio
Writing from the workshop.
Short, honest posts about how we build. Studio notes, playbooks, engineering craft. Written by humans, no top-ten lists.
Featured · Design
April 10, 20266 min readRead the piece
Why we shipped this site dark-first
Most agency sites default to light mode and awkwardly bolt on a dark variant. We did it the other way around — and it changed how we pick colors, typography, and motion.
Ali AlibrahimiFounder, CodeWithAli
Ali Alibrahimi
Playbooks8 min
How we scope a build in one call
An inside look at the intake call we run with every new client — what we ask, what we deliberately do not ask, and the one-pager we send 24 hours later.
Ali Alibrahimi
Engineering10 min
A ten-layer spam defense for a contact form
A walkthrough of how we hardened our own contact form against bots, keyboard-mashers, and the increasingly creative LLM-generated junk hitting agency inboxes.
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