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Ship Happens

Notes from the build trenches. Updates, how-we-work, and lessons from the field.

Revlr by &Pixels Labs: stylized product mockup showing website audit scores for performance, SEO, accessibility, security, mobile, best practices, AEO, and GEO.

Development#digital-products-built-by-design-agency#pixels-labs

Introducing &Pixels Labs: We're Building Products Now

&Pixels Labs is the product arm of &Pixels, a veteran-owned design and development agency in Austin, TX. First product: Revlr, an AI-powered website audit platform. Free beta at revlr.ai.

Mar 28, 20263 min read

Illustration for &Pixels’ Ship Happens post: colorful WordPress-style plugin blocks falling away from a streamlined dark UI, symbolizing migrating our agency site to Next.js, Supabase, and Vercel with zero plugins.

Process#wordpress#nextjs

We Fired 18 Plugins (and Nobody Got Hurt)

We migrated our own agency site off WordPress, cut 18 plugins, and built a lean stack with Next.js and Supabase. Here's why we did it and what we gained.

Mar 10, 20265 min read

&Pixels Unvibed article hero: when vibe-coded MVPs become unmaintainable, we audit and rebuild—illustration evoking a "haunted house" codebase for the long-form Ship Happens post on AI-generated code.

Process#unvibed#ai

We Built a Business to Clean Up AI-Generated Code. Here's Why.

How &Pixels went from building digital products to launching Unvibed, and why we believe the future belongs to teams that know when to vibe and when to stop.

Feb 16, 202616 min read