Dinode Blog https://dinode.com/blog/ Posts from Dinode on building enterprise applications, AI-native platforms, and the lessons from shipping. en-au Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Brilliant Badger Blueprint: memorable IDs in one prompt. https://dinode.com/blog/brilliant-badger-blueprint/ https://dinode.com/blog/brilliant-badger-blueprint/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A short story about a feature we built for a construction project management system - memorable three-word nicknames on every defect record. On a blank codebase it's a morning's work. In xMS it was one prompt. info@dinode.com (Simon Driscoll) An AI almost disabled our security. We caught it - but we shouldn't have had to. https://dinode.com/blog/ai-almost-disabled-our-security/ https://dinode.com/blog/ai-almost-disabled-our-security/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A real war story from building Dinode. The AI coding assistant proposed a fix that would have silently bypassed our row-level security. We caught it - because we knew to ask. Here's why that's a problem, and what it says about how enterprise apps should be built. info@dinode.com (Simon Driscoll) Vibe coding is great. For enterprise, you need the other 80%. https://dinode.com/blog/vibe-coding-for-enterprise/ https://dinode.com/blog/vibe-coding-for-enterprise/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI-assisted 'vibe coding' can ship you an app in an hour. Enterprise applications are the 20% of code plus an 80% of permissions, audit, multi-tenancy, versioning, and governance that you can't prompt your way through. info@dinode.com (Simon Driscoll) Security, inherited. https://dinode.com/blog/security-inherited/ https://dinode.com/blog/security-inherited/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT When security logic lives in your app, every feature adds attack surface. When it lives in the platform, your app inherits the guarantees automatically. Here's how xMS thinks about permissions, audit, and multi-tenancy. info@dinode.com (Simon Driscoll) What Honan taught us (and why we rebuilt xMS after) https://dinode.com/blog/what-honan-taught-us/ https://dinode.com/blog/what-honan-taught-us/ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT In 2023 we went live with Honan Insurance's strata client portal - 500+ clients, 33,000 properties. The experience was both a validation and a lesson. Here's what it taught us, and why the next two years went into rebuilding xMS rather than selling it. info@dinode.com (Simon Driscoll) Two versions of your app. One database. Zero downtime. https://dinode.com/blog/two-versions-one-app/ https://dinode.com/blog/two-versions-one-app/ Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT When you need to change a production app used by hundreds of people, 'maintenance windows' and 'feature flags' are the wrong answer. Here's what it looks like when versioning is a first-class primitive of the platform. info@dinode.com (Simon Driscoll)