raxel.studio

Journal

Notes from the workshop, kept in public.

Things we learn while building — engineering, design, studio practice. Short, occasional, not on a schedule.

  1. 012026-07-15/Journal

    The unruled space

    Agents write fast, another agent approves, a human "guides" - and last Tuesday that workflow shipped wrong math and a copy-pasted fix before lunch. We tested the tools, the rules files, and the reviewers. Here's what actually holds, and what's guarded by nothing at all.

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  2. 022026-07-08/Journal

    Vibe coding: the good, the bad, and the ugly

    No single line is wrong. That's exactly the problem.

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  3. 032026-06-30/Journal

    Faster than WordPress isn't fast

    A few weeks after v1, the client called. "It's faster than the old site," they said. "But not as fast as we expected." That was the actual bug report.

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  4. 042026-06-23/Journal

    The debt you don't see

    Once the app was fast, there was still all the work the client doesn't see. Dependencies. SEO. The fix that had been sitting on npm the whole time.

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  5. 052026-06-16/Journal

    Inheriting a live codebase

    We took over a project mid-flight. The first thing we tried was the obvious thing. The obvious thing was wrong.

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