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The quiet return of local-first software
After a decade of renting every workflow, teams are keeping the source of truth on the machine again.
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Pieces from the desk on engineering, design, product, and the tools people finish.
Engineering
The notebook that survived the rewrite
The useful notes were the short ones, written in the margin of the work itself.
Product
Why inference costs rewrote product roadmaps
A feature that was free to demo became a line item, and the roadmap had to learn arithmetic.
Product
Shipping without a status meeting
The release notes were the meeting. Everything else was a rehearsal.
Design
A calmer interface for dense information
Density is not the enemy. Noise is. The pages people finish leave room around the idea.
Design
Type that knows when to stop
A headline can be large. It cannot be large and crowded.
Engineering
The case for boring deployment pipelines
The most expensive pipeline is the one only one person can explain on a Friday.
AI
A quieter model beside the cursor
The useful assistant got small enough to sit in the margin.
AI
What small models changed about writing tools
The useful assistant got cheaper, which means it can sit closer to the sentence.
Engineering
What the deploy log is for
If only one person can explain the pipeline, the pipeline is already late.
Design
Design systems after the component gold rush
A library of buttons is not a system. A system is an agreement about what you will not redraw.
Product
Readers finish what you leave room for
Completion is a design outcome. It starts with the width of the column.