Writing · Field notes from the team

What we have
been thinking about.

Engineering practice, AI evaluation, design choices, and the unsexy infrastructure we lean on. Roughly two posts a month.

Topic

Local-first sync, without the bookkeeping

What we learned shipping ElectricSQL into a research tool, and the four invariants that made conflict resolution boring.

Held-out sets, judge prompts, and the small habit that caught two regressions in production this quarter.

An audit log is a UI surface. Treat it like one and your reviewers will thank you for years.

Three projects, three home-grown queues, three quiet failures. We finally moved everything to Temporal — here is what changed.

How we structure the first three weeks of a build so the next eleven feel calm.

Spacing, type, and the case for boring color in operational dashboards.

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