Research series3 articles
Stillness: breathing, light & what we can measure
Three research questions behind an experimental breathing app. What might help, what a camera can measure, and where the evidence stops.
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What we’re learning, and how it could help what you build next.
5 min read
GreenLife is back. Start with what you have.
A simpler life doesn't need a shopping list. GreenLife returns with one daily nudge to want less, make room for what matters and reconnect with the living world. Independent. Not for sale.
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12 min read
Hyperdrift Turns One: From Hands on the Keyboard to a Crew at the Wheel
Twelve months ago Hyperdrift said its first public words. Since then the way the work gets done changed seven times — manual coding, skills, Databricks, orchestration, frontier models, judges — and it points somewhere. The whole year, charted and filmed, with a link to everything we shipped and every line of it that's open.
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You have one evening. Who is waiting on you?
Coming back to your projects should not start with six tabs and a guilt trip. Standup reads your public GitHub and answers three questions: what to start with, who is waiting, and how long it takes.
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Open source doesn't have a generosity problem. It has a routing problem.
Right now 25,987 issues carry a help-wanted label from the person who runs the repo, and not one reply. The people who could answer exist. The ask never reached them.
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4 min read
Your Error Page Is a Prompt
We gave an agent crew the power to take a production service offline, then went looking for what could turn that power against us. The hole was not in the model. It was in the telemetry.
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The Agent Is the Session
We keep building accounts so a website can remember who you are. Your agent already knows. WebMCP lets a page hand the agent its controls, and the site never has to hold your context at all.
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3 min read
Our 60-Line Trade Secret
Sixty lines of nginx config took our worst page from 1.5 seconds to 89 milliseconds. The edge you're told to rent is the proxy you already run — and we're publishing the whole secret.
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3 min read
The Fleet Watches Itself
Analytics has always waited for you to ask. PostHog's new signals invert that — and we wired them into the daily command cycle that steers our fleet of apps.
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Build the First Room Before You Build the App
Together is testing a simple promise: help people already sharing a public place discover mutual interest and meet face to face. Its public survey lets anyone help choose where that first room should exist.
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The Ascent: Self-Fulfilment Starts With the Right Call
The Ascent is an immersive human-capacity matrix for seeing what today can carry. Its foundation never changes: know the whole person, find the right balance, then make the right call.
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Engineering series2 articles
Own your stack: a smaller foundation for your product
Two connected articles on building a product with a stack you can understand, change and keep. From server rendering to types across the whole app.
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