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The Lab
Where we think out loud. The studio's writing, the live systems behind it, and the standards that keep the work honest.
Journal
Notes from the work, seedlings, growing pieces, and evergreens.
Guides
Long-form, multi-chapter guides on building with AI.
Graph
The interlinked knowledge graph of everything here.
Systems
The live Libre open-source fleet.
Architecture
The two-plane way we keep the work honest.
Skills
The skills and agents behind the studio.
Now
What we are focused on at the moment.
Colophon
How this site is built, and with what.
Latest from the journal
A Beginner's Guide to Programming Languages
Every major language in one consistent frame — what it's for, its real strengths and weaknesses, and the honest answer about when any of that actually matters. Grounded in the 2025–2026 developer surveys.
Jul 7, 2026Database Design for Vibe Engineers
The canon of relational schema design — Codd to Kent to Karwin to the Postgres wiki — distilled into clear, numbered rules. When to create a new table, when to keep things together, and how to stop your AI assistant from quietly wrecking your schema.
Jul 7, 2026Ormus Distillations №001 — The Jevons Trap
Apollo's Chief Economist says AI won't kill jobs. He's right, and he's fighting yesterday's question. A four-stage filter through the steelman, the truths, the myths, and what the piece almost says.
Apr 28, 2026The Extraction Process
Every reusable tool started as a one-off fix. The discipline isn't invention — it's recognition. Knowing when a solution has outgrown the session that created it.
Mar 15, 2026