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Engineering stories from the edge of learning technology
LaunchSeptember 24, 2026
AccelaStudy AI launches personalized, adaptive test prep for the SAT, ACT and PSAT/NMSQT, built on the idea that no two students should have to study the same way.
EngineeringAugust 13, 2026
Four months ago we argued that building our own tool fleet was worth it. This is the audit — what the commercial equivalents would cost, what our fleet actually costs to run, and what it cost to build.
July 31, 2026
A test plan written in markdown is a great document and a terrible instrument. Assay keeps the document and adds the instrument — runnable instances, per-step check-off, assignment to people or Claude agents, and failures that file themselves into Docket.
July 30, 2026
A secure, read-only distribution surface for the Renkara fleet's finished documents — sandboxed rendering, immutable content-addressed versions, per-view audit, and 38 MCP tools.
EngineeringJuly 28, 2026
How we replaced hundreds of duplicate MCP server processes with one shared hub — designed, built by three AI agents, shipped, and battle-hardened in a single day.
EngineeringMay 9, 2026
Inside the fleet-wide accessibility audit and remediation that took the AccelaStudy AI platform from 414 high-severity defects to zero in a single day, across fifty-six repositories.
April 19, 2026
boto3 provisioning, CloudFormation-shaped types, drift detection, org-wide inventory, Trusted-Advisor parity, compliance packs, cost, IP space — and 43 MCP tools. One tool, one WebSocket, every AWS concern covered.
April 19, 2026
Self-hosted Slack replacement with a first-class bidirectional Claude Code session bridge. 69 MCP tools, fleet integrations, and embeddable chat surfaces.
ObservabilityApril 19, 2026
Vigil, Chronicle, Pulse, Docket, BugReporter, Chirp. Each watches something different. All talk to each other. Together they make one team-of-two observability stack we'd take over Datadog.
April 18, 2026
Opportunities as the primary object — not contacts. Multi-pipeline kanban, AI health scoring, forecasts, quoting, commissions, all backed by Tribe + Courier + Cadence + Trellis.
April 18, 2026
Metrics, logs, traces, alerts, incidents, SLOs — all in one platform. OpenTelemetry-native. AI-curated logs. Sonnet 4.6 drafts root-cause before the on-call pages in.
April 13, 2026
Why we built a wiki from scratch instead of using Confluence, Notion, or GitBook. Hierarchical pages, version history, wiki-links, and 93 MCP tools.
April 9, 2026
Master list templates, real-time collaboration, Things 3 import, Packed integration, and 35 MCP tools.
April 9, 2026
Hierarchical projects, real-time WebSocket updates, public bug submission API, and autonomous issue resolution via Claude Code.
April 9, 2026
Natural language event parsing, multi-provider sync across Google, Microsoft, iCloud, and CalDAV, with calendar sets for context switching.
April 9, 2026
Double-entry bookkeeping, Plaid bank feeds, AI transaction categorization, Stripe payments, 40+ financial reports, and 20 MCP tools.
April 9, 2026
Multi-tenant subscriber platform with automation sequences, double opt-in, SendGrid delivery, and 49 MCP tools.
EngineeringApril 9, 2026
54 pages, WebGL particles, an 18-year timeline with 60+ milestones, 14 tool showcases, and not a single framework. How we built a corporate site that loads in under 2 seconds.
April 9, 2026
Dual LLM content generation, campaign orchestration, landing page A/B testing, and multi-channel publishing.
April 9, 2026
Build the template once, stamp out instances forever. Weight tracking, nested containers, real-time collaboration, and 24 MCP tools.
April 9, 2026
Leverage factor calculation, decision fatigue assessment, predictive analysis, and 8 MCP tools. We invented this category.
April 9, 2026
Zero cookies, GDPR compliant by design, sub-2 KB tracking script, A/B testing, conversion funnels, and 37 MCP tools.
April 9, 2026
Health check polling, latency sparklines, incident lifecycle management, and uptime summaries across the entire platform.
April 9, 2026
Backend proxies Gmail, Fastmail, Exchange, and IMAP. Markdown composition, rules engine, LLM classification, and smart folders.
April 9, 2026
Day and week time entry views, expense management, PDF invoice generation, accounts receivable reporting, and 20 MCP tools.
EngineeringApril 9, 2026
Why we built every operational tool ourselves, and what happens when 19 applications share authentication, database, cache, and 734 MCP tools.
April 9, 2026
Incremental builds in 1.5 seconds, semantic search, infrastructure provisioning, and 8 MCP tools for AI integration.
April 9, 2026
Interactive browser for 28 patent filings and 613 claims. AI chat, claim visualization, and plain-language explanations. Local-only deployment.
PatentsMarch 31, 2026
After a journey of nearly 18 years, the AVIAN patent portfolio is complete. 28 filings across 30 branded platform clusters. Over 600 pages and 215 diagrams.
InfrastructureMarch 30, 2026
From Parse to Firebase to a custom Node.js stack on AWS and finally to the AVIAN engine. How a flashcard sync service became the backbone of an adaptive learning platform.