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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From the workshop.
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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11 min read
Hyperdrift Turns One: From Hands on the Keyboard to a Crew at the Wheel
The bottleneck moves; it doesn't disappear. Hyperdrift's first year, through the tools we built and the wrong diagnosis that taught us to check the evidence before acting.
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3 min read
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 read that steers our fleet of apps.
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2 min read
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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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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2 min read
HyperCV is now Next Role
On 18 May 2026 HyperCV became Next Role, named after what people say when they're looking for work. It lives at nextrole.site, and any agent can call its CV and job-search tools over MCP.
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