The Night Shift · by subject
Departments
The journal, sorted the way a magazine sorts itself — into sections. 10 running departments; pick a subject and read down the column.
- 01 3 essays
Engineering
How the software is really made: the decisions, the trade-offs, the details.
- 02 3 essays
ganttchart.ai
Dispatches from building our flagship: an AI that turns a sentence into a project plan.
- 03 2 essays
Guides
Plain-English, step-by-step how-tos — the kind of thing we wish someone had handed our past selves.
- 04 2 essays
Studio
How a deliberately tiny, independent software studio actually runs, day to day.
- 05 1 essay
code-results
Notes from building code-results — tying every deploy to the business metrics that moved after it.
- 06 1 essay
Design
Choices about how things look, read, and feel, and the reasons behind them.
- 07 1 essay
Philosophy
The convictions under the craft — why we build the way we build.
- 08 1 essay
Process
The working habits and small rituals behind the work.
- 09 1 essay
This site
Field notes from building trolls.dev itself — the site as its own little product.
- 10 1 essay
Thyseus
Notes from building Thyseus — a live map stitched from public cameras and the idle compute in volunteers’ browser tabs.