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The Contents

Everything in the issue, on one page.

The cover opens the issue and the colophon closes it; this is the page you turn to in between. Every feature, department, reference and piece of back matter — the five titles, the journal, the field guides, the glossary and the type itself — gathered where you can see the whole of it at once.

In this issue
24 entries
Departments
5
Edition
Vol. MMXXVI
Cover price
Free to read
01 Department

Features

The five titles the studio designs, builds & runs in-house.

  1. The flagship — case study ganttchart.ai Project plans from plain English: describe the work, get a chart. 01
  2. The reader — case study DReader The Drudge Report, minus the noise — fast, ad-free, readable. 02
  3. The map — computer vision Thyseus A live map of the world, built from public camera feeds. 03
  4. The lab — user research AI User Interviews User research at the speed of AI, no calendar required. 04
  5. The workbench — newest code-results The line from the code you ship to the numbers you watch. 05
  6. The full catalogue The Portfolio Every title on one page, billed as a feature well. 06
02 Department

Departments

The standing sections — the front of book to the night shift’s desk.

  1. Front of book The Cover Where the issue opens: the studio, in one line. 07
  2. About the studio The Masthead Who keeps the lights on, and the house rules they keep. 08
  3. Notes from the night shift The Journal Longer-form notes on making small, useful software. 09
  4. The journal, by department The Topics Every subject the journal files under, gathered into columns. 10
03 Department

The Reference Shelf

The library at the back — look a thing up, or read the type itself.

  1. The reference library The Field Guides Plain-English project planning, the whole cluster in one place. 11
  2. The reference desk The Glossary Every planning word that carries weight, defined in a sentence. 12
  3. A live type specimen The Specimen The issue set in Fraunces, shown at every size it earns. 13
04 Department

The Field Guides

The marquee explainers and how-tos — the full library holds fifteen.

  1. Explainer What is a Gantt chart? Two axes, one bar per task, and why it beats a to-do list. 14
  2. Field guide How to plan a project Five plain-English steps and the trick that keeps a plan honest. 15
  3. The head guide How to make a Gantt chart The four ways that actually work, compared side by side. 16
  4. Explainer The critical path method The chain of tasks that really sets your end date, found by hand. 17
  5. Reference Gantt chart templates Six free phase lists to copy in seconds and bend to your project. 18
  6. Reference Gantt chart examples Five real plans, each with the prompt that builds it. 19
05 Department

Back Matter

Correspondence, the wire, and the fine print at the foot of the book.

  1. Correspondence Say Hello Tell us what you’re building after dark. 20
  2. The wire — RSS The Feed Every dispatch from the journal, delivered to your reader. 21
  3. Production notes The Colophon What the issue was set in and pressed with — and what it keeps. 22
  4. The fine print Privacy Policy No cookies, no trackers — the short version, and the long one. 23
  5. The fine print Terms of Use The plain terms under which the issue is offered. 24

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