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#design

Design

Interfaces, typography, tokens and the discipline of visual decisions that survive a redesign.

#engineering

Engineering

Building software that stays boring in production: architecture, reliability and the craft of the diff.

#process

Process

How work actually gets shipped — constraints, drafts, deploys and the rituals that keep teams honest.

#writing

Writing

Technical writing as a first-class engineering skill: READMEs, review comments, and second drafts.

#tooling

Tooling

The instruments of the trade — editors, pipelines, build systems — and when they should disappear.

#culture

Culture

The habits behind the code: quiet deploys, kind reviews, and praising the fix nobody noticed.

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Fresh off the press

Fountain pen resting on a notebook with handwritten notes

2026-06-28 · 6 min

Designing with constraints, on purpose

Every strong interface we have shipped started with a constraint we refused to negotiate away. Here is how we pick them.

#design#process#engineering

Close-up of a circuit board with soldered components

2026-06-19 · 5 min

The boring stack is a feature

We rebuilt our pipeline on tools nobody tweets about. Deploys got faster and the on-call channel went quiet.

#engineering#tooling

Open notebook with a pen on a wooden desk beside a laptop

2026-06-10 · 4 min

Write the README first

If you cannot explain the tool before building it, you are about to build the wrong tool. A practice we stole from technical writers.

#writing#process

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