Notes from the studio
Occasional writing on building small, honest software — and the tools we ship.
How to get just the recipe (and skip the life story) Recipe pages bury the method under ads, popups, and a thousand-word memoir. Here's how to get straight to the ingredients — and scale them while you're at it. Why habit streaks backfire (and what the research actually says) Streaks are meant to motivate, but for a lot of people they do the opposite. Loss aversion, the all-or-nothing cascade, and the case for tracking habits without a chain to break. Turn merged PRs into launch posts you'd actually publish A repeatable way to turn shipped GitHub pull requests into LinkedIn posts and tweets — without the generic AI slop that nobody reads. What “small, honest software” actually means No ads, no dark patterns, no catch. The constraints behind every Drizzlelabs tool — and why we keep them small on purpose.