Notes from the workshop

What we learned building things, written up while it was still fresh. No thought leadership, no listicles.

Design systems for teams of four

You do not need a hundred-component library. You need eight tokens, one type scale, and the discipline to use them.

Design · 5 min

22 Apr 2025

Digitising a paper process fails for social reasons more often than technical ones. Notes from ninety vehicles.

Case notes · 7 min

11 Feb 2025

The rule against Friday deploys is a symptom. What has to be true before the day of the week stops mattering.

DevOps · 6 min

09 Dec 2024

What a two-week technical due-diligence review looks for, and the four findings that come up almost every time.

Consulting · 8 min