Dispatch

What we shipped,
and what broke.

Short notes from the people who did the work. Written when there is something to say, which is not every week.

Five so far / newest first

A log carried through an old sawmill on its rails

We wrote the specification for a format that does not have one

Twelve files, 879 parts, roughly 9,100 operations. That corpus is now the only thing standing between a drawing and a wrong cut.

The PageWebPro editor with a band site open, the page rendering live on the canvas

This site was asked for, in sentences

If the demo only works because we are the ones giving it, it is not a feature. It is a rehearsal.

A fanned colour book, every printing ink laid open at once

Why the cut contour gets its own plate

Draw the cut line in black and it is ink. Put it on its own plate and it is an instruction.

A robot arm lifting a printed sheet off a line

Pre-launch is a status, not a marketing word

Live, in trials, pre-launch. If the words move to make a quarter look better, they are worth nothing.

An empty talk venue with pale timber seating angled toward a lit stage

Two names, one workshop

A product has to be the same for everyone. Client work is the opposite. Running both under one name makes each of them worse.

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