Read first,
and keep the receipts.

We read primary sources before we write code, and save what we found next to the code.

Before we built this site, we studied one we admire and read 64 sources about how it works.

What we learn goes into a short write-up beside the code, so the next person starts where we stopped.

This site's baseline: 64 sources, all read on 2026-11-13.

A number on our pages links to where it came from. If we can't source it, we don't say it.

The dates and counts on our Work page come from each product's own code: a first commit, a list in a README.

When a number would sound good but we can't point to where it came from, we leave it out.

Every figure on this page: sourced.

Each choice gets a short record: what we chose, why, and what we turned down.

A record is one short file: the choice, the reasons, and the options we turned down.

When a decision changes, we amend its record and say why, so the history stays honest.

14 decisions logged since 2026-11-09.