Adam Cogan

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

Adam Cogan — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:22:02 +0000

(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 […]

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

Adam Cogan — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:53:50 +0000

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.

Adam’s 2025 Year in Review

Adam Cogan — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:08:06 +0000

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. […]

How to Handle Duplicate GitHub Issues Without Annoying Your Users

Adam Cogan — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:55:00 +0000

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 […]

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

Adam Cogan — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:59:27 +0000

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, […]

OpenAI – 2 Updates That Might Change How You Build Software

Adam Cogan — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:26:22 +0000

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 […]

MCP as Your Integration Layer

Adam Cogan — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:52:01 +0000

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 […]

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

Adam Cogan — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 10:49:40 +0000

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. […]

How to Choose the Right Software Architecture

Adam Cogan — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:29:36 +0000

As software devs, one of the most important things we do on a greenfield project is to choose the right software architecture. It is called architecture when it’s hard to change. ✅ Get it right, and your project becomes maintainable, scalable, and a pleasure to develop. ❌ Get it wrong, and you notice it with […]

Beyond Automation: The Developer’s Guide to AI Agents

Adam Cogan — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:10:50 +0000

AI agents are shaking things up in our beloved software development industry. AI is taking us way beyond the usual automation we’re used to. Instead of just following predefined steps, these agents can actually sense their environment, plan out their actions, and cleverly use the tools at their disposal. SSW’s COO, Ulysses Maclaren, recently gave […]