Our insights

At Go Tripod, we've been in the business of software development for a long time. Although Go Tripod was officially formed in 2009, we've got blog posts going back to 2007 which describe the technologies we were interested in at the time. My personal blog goes back to 2003! Here's a quick list of the...

Just interested in the code? Cut to the chase. GitHub and GitLab are competing services providing source control products based on Git. Source control enables us to keep track of all of the code changes we make to a project so that we can roll them back in the event of a problem. Seeing the...

As part of our drive to double-down on software and provide a great experience for our customers, we've been reviewing our hosting infrastructure. We recently talked about how our WordPress clients enjoy security and redundancy, and we want to continue to provide that same great experience for the various web apps that we host. In...

We've recently been extending our reach into the local area by approaching organisations that help connect businesses together. The first of these is Falmouth's Business Improvement Distract (BID), who help boost the town by investing in marketing, business support, events and a variety of improvement mechanisms. The second is Software Cornwall, who connect and support...

We recently posted about the font loading solution we use on our websites. Further to implementing this technique we noticed that, on this very site, some of the fonts weren't quite rendering correctly. Look at the examples below. The font rendering issues were slight but there was a definite problem with uneven character weighting in the Google...

As developers, we have a seemingly endless supply of tools at our disposal thanks to the hard work and generosity of the wider development community who, by and large, share their hard work in the hope of making their peers' lives that little bit easier. At Go Tripod we're always on the lookout for new...

Ten years ago, just before Go Tripod was formed, I was an independent contractor with a strong eye on my bottom line, so I created a way to track my income at-a-glance. This was extremely useful at the time, as it helped a young Colin make sure he had enough pennies at the end of...

An early temptation when setting up a development shop is to diversify: to provide logo design, SEO assistance, print work, marketing. The ability to sell yourself to clients as a one stop shop is compelling, with the idea being that you can capture more work and provide a better experience for customers. At Go Tripod,...