NOTES

Engineering and design writing from the build.

Short essays on design choices, engineering decisions, and what's happening in the closed beta. New entry every two to three weeks, roughly.

  • Hello, world. Why hairline.

    The design thesis behind Crystal Clear in 600 words: filled overlays add ink, hairline overlays subtract it, and the difference matters more than it sounds.

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  • What’s an orb, anyway.

    The anatomy of a single orb: the arc, the headline number, the chip row, the sparkline, the per-core ticks. For people who arrived from outside the hardware-overlay scene.

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