Notes from the studio
Journal.
Long-form notes on design choices, engineering decisions, and the patterns we ship for clients. Written when we have something to say, not on a schedule.
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22 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
StudioEngineeringKindCue: overnight launch, nine days to publishing itself
Six-to-nine-second looping health reminders, rendered as deterministic kinetic typography and published across six platforms. What it took to go from one overnight session to a queue that publishes itself — and what day one of automation taught us.
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- 02
21 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
EngineeringProcessShipping phone OTP when your SMS provider isn’t on the list
A logistics platform needed phone-number login across the UK and Bulgaria; the provider that could deliver it isn’t on Supabase’s list. The supported answer is the send-SMS auth hook — and the queue that actually sets the timeline is regulatory, not technical.
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- 03
20 Jul 2026 · 2 min read
StrategyEngineeringYour next visitor isn’t human: notes on agent-ready websites
Lighthouse 13.3 ships an experimental Agentic Browsing category — pass/fail checks for whether a machine can read, navigate and act on your site. Notes from running ours through it, and why accessibility debt quietly became conversion debt.
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- 04
01 May 2026 · 11 min read
StrategyStudioThe architecture of trust on a studio site
Most studio sites are brochures. The few that aren't share a small set of structural moves — public dashboards, honest roadmaps, error logs, working tools. A note on what those surfaces are for, and why they only work when they're true.
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- 05
30 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
StrategyPricingWhy we charge monthly, not per project
Pricing shapes incentives more than any contract clause. Here’s the case for the retainer model — and why fixed-bid project work is great for the agency and bad for the client.
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29 Apr 2026 · 6 min read
EngineeringDesignHow we built this site
A walk-through of the stack, the design system, and the scroll theatre we built ourselves before we ship it for clients.
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22 Apr 2026 · 5 min read
EngineeringPerformanceWhy we use Lenis (and when not to)
Smooth scroll is a budget item. After shipping a few sites with Lenis and a few without, here’s where we landed — and the test bug that bit us repeatedly.
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- 08
15 Apr 2026 · 7 min read
DesignProcessNotes on shipping FinalTheater
Most studio sites end the same way: a lime band, a CTA, an arrow. We replaced ours with a three-act pinned scene. Here’s what worked, what we tried that didn’t, and the small details that mattered.
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