Blog
Notes from the keyboard
Product thinking, engineering deep dives and guides for teams who live in the terminal.
Product
Why we built Kiln keyboard-first
The mouse is great for exploring. It is slow for things you do forty times a day.
Maya Okafor
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5 min read
Engineering
How we made cold start 4× faster
Moving extension loading off the main thread was the easy part. Caching the index was not.
Tomás Reyes
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8 min read
Guides
Runbooks your on-call will actually use
A runbook nobody can find at 3 a.m. is just a document. Here is how to make them runnable.
Ines Haddad
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6 min read
Design
Designing a dark theme that stays readable
Pure black and pure white look sharp in a mockup and tire your eyes after an hour.
Lea Martin
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4 min read