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9 October 2026Field notes

The Workshop Next Door

This dispatch exists because of a news item. A software engineer named Brandon Thomas rebuilt seven of Adobe's applications, in a year, in a modern language, and gave them away. Reading about it, we started something of our own.

9 October 2026Interviews

The Chief on the Opening Moves

I asked the engineering lead to explain, in his own words, how he intends to approach a job that has killed smaller teams than ours. He answered at some length.

8 October 2026Field notes

A Journal of a Rewrite, and Other Follies I Mean to Report On

A standing invitation to watch a reimplementation of DHIS2 happen in public. The ambition is modest. The follies, I suspect, will not be.