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Short pieces on quality, honesty, and digital software that respects the person using it.

Design
12 May 2026 · 4 min read
Why we set border-radius to zero (and kept it there)
Most software rounds its corners. We went the other way - and the discipline turned out to be the point.
Ethics
28 April 2026 · 3 min read
Dark patterns we will never ship
A short, opinionated list of the tricks that work - and exactly why none of them will ever ship here.
Craft
10 April 2026 · 4 min read
Ma: designing with the space you leave empty
間 is the interval - the pause between notes. Here is how negative space does the heavy lifting in our layouts.

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