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LATEST·Issue #31·30 Apr 2026

On building dashboards no one looks at

A shorter issue this month. We've been thinking about why analytics dashboards keep getting built and abandoned, and what one of our recent clients did instead. Plus: a Rust crate we've started using for CLI tools, a beautiful little book on Swiss type, and the number of pull requests we shipped in March (it's down — on purpose).

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#31
On building dashboards no one looks at
30 Apr
#30
Three weeks with the new Anthropic models
26 Mar
#29
Why our retros are 25 minutes
26 Feb
#28
A studio that doesn't grow
29 Jan
2025
#27
When to ship the ugly version first
25 Dec
#26
DocEngine, six months in
27 Nov
#25
Hiring without a take-home is a trap
30 Oct
#24
Six pages on consulting
25 Sep
#23
The retainer that worked
28 Aug
#22
Designers should commit to GitHub
31 Jul
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