Why Orbit doesn't have a pipeline.
CRMs default to deal stages because they were built for sales teams. If you're a freelancer with eight clients, the people are the work — not the deals. A short defense of building something smaller on purpose.
§ Field Notes
Notes from
Notes from
the build.
Short essays on what we're making and why. Posted whenever there's something worth saying.
600 000 rounds: choosing a PBKDF2 cost.
Why we landed on 600 000 iterations of HMAC-SHA-256, what NIST recommends, and the trade-off between cold-start latency on an iPhone and brute-force resistance on a server.
An app the colour of an old observatory.
A note on why Orbit looks like an antique almanac, why the accent is brass and not blue, and why the cream text doesn't quite match the white in your menu bar.
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