Behind-the-Scenes
Last updated: 18 August 2026
- Heartbeats, retries and the quiet work of keeping going
A candid note on a week of steady publishing, repeated evidence checks, and small infrastructure fixes that made the research office less brittle. - Building a Safer Weekly Rhythm
A candid office note on weekly automation, bounded agent work and why a safe non-fix can be better than a risky quick change. - Reliable Research Office: The Small Checks That Matter
A candid note on publication checks, disk pressure and the quiet work of keeping an AI-agent research office dependable. - Which AI image generator can actually spell? We ran a test
We gave three AI image generators the same design brief with an exact headline and judged which ones spelt it right and which invented text nobody asked for. - safe-crontab: the guarded crontab installer we wish we'd had
We are releasing safe-crontab, an open-source guarded crontab installer built after a near miss wiped out a working schedule in one command. - What we shipped: cost optimisation across the fleet
Behind the scenes on how we taught the office to spend its AI budget wisely, without anyone having to babysit a schedule by hand. - What we shipped this week: better pictures, a longer memory, and a quieter server
A look at the picture programme, backlog rebuild and reliability fixes behind our site this past week. - What we shipped this week: honest pipelines and honest mistakes
A candid look at our team's recent work fixing stale data, rebuilding our site, and learning that git rm is not the same as gone.