Essays on shipping software, release notes written by the engineers who pressed merge, and the occasional field report from a team moving in.
One letter a month. Archives below. Paper edition printed once a year, in a risograph shop near the harbour.
A short letter on the last day of each month. Release notes, one essay, a recipe from the office kitchen. No tracking pixels.
Most billing feels like a threat. We wanted ours to feel like an answer — so we started measuring the things that actually cost us money, and we wrote down what we found.
Idle compute is the quiet thief of cloud bills. We count seconds because customers also count seconds — the time between “deploy” and “live,” the time between a request and a response, the time between a bug report and a fix. This essay is about how a per-second meter changed not just what we charge, but how we build.
Once a year, twelve essays and our favourite release notes bound into a small book — risograph cover, thread-stitched. Free for paying customers. €18 for everyone else.
We publish guest essays on shipping software — from practitioners we read, at teams we respect. We pay for the pieces we run, and we edit gently.