Release notes, engineering field reports, and the occasional essay on craft, privacy, and the work of building software that respects the people who use it.
After three years of weekly model releases, the on-device story has finally stabilized. We dig into what's actually shippable today, what's still a research demo, and how to think about the build-vs-call decision for privacy-sensitive products.
Our design and engineering toolkit graduates from alpha. Highlights: visual regression in CI, per-token audit logs, and a privacy linter that catches data leaks before review.
STRIDE is great, but it's also a lot. Here's the lighter-weight process we use with every gzyuans client — four steps, one afternoon, and a list of decisions you'll actually make.
We're growing — carefully. Three new teammates joined this quarter, all with backgrounds in privacy-preserving ML, design systems, and platform engineering. Here's what they'll be working on.
ORM auto-migrations are great for prototypes and terrible for the next five years. A short post on the discipline of explicit, reversible, reviewed schema changes.
After 14 months of partnership with Northwind, their operator console is now generally available. We share what shipped, what we cut, and what we'd do differently.
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