Writing
Notes from the workshop
Why the products work the way they do, what we chose not to build, and the occasional mistake worth writing down. No newsletter, no tracking — just the pages.
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An exact size, not a guess
Most compressors give you a quality slider and hope. TargetSize takes the number the upload form gave you and works backwards from it — and measures the answer before showing it.
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What a PDF is actually made of
Before you compress a document it is worth knowing where its bytes went. Usually it is one image, placed far larger than it is drawn.
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Why everything we build runs on your device
Four products, no backend between them. Not a privacy stance so much as an engineering one — and it comes with real costs worth naming.
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Diagrams that explain themselves
A diagram is a snapshot of an explanation someone gave once. Present mode plays it back — spotlight, notes, narration — and exports the whole thing as a video.
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Keeping a computer awake without a utility belt
StayAwake does one thing, has four permissions, and can name the feature that dies without each of them. That constraint is the product.
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Seeing when your world is awake
Timezone maths is easy to do and easy to do wrong. Zonely puts everyone on one timeline so you read the answer instead of calculating it.