Engineering
How we built the Nebula color engine
OKLCH derivation, role-keyed tier overrides, and the tiny lookup that replaced 1,200 lines of CSS.
May 12, 2026
Nebula Dispatch · Archive
Field notes from the cosmos engine
Motion
Aurora at 90fps: keyframe budgeting
What we cut from the timeline pass and why the playhead now feels true under load.
May 09, 2026
Research
Orion-A: the contrast law
A single equation that holds surface pairs legible across every tier override.
May 06, 2026
Design
Notes from the Constellation editor
Drag-to-token snapping and the gestures that finally read as physical.
May 02, 2026
Field
Pulsar & Helix ship the spring releases
Two surface packs, one shared substrate, and what we learned wiring them through.
Apr 28, 2026
Product
Behaviours panel: wires that survive refactors
cid-keyed instances, not DOM-keyed — and why that matters when the page rerenders.
Apr 24, 2026
Engineering
The .lsd package is the public contract
Versioning palettes, tier maps and behaviours as a single transferable artifact.
Apr 19, 2026
Motion
CSS-first motion, JS complementary
When the keyframe is enough, and when lsd-physics earns its bytes.
Apr 14, 2026
Voice
Naming the cosmos: Nebula, Orion, Vega
The vocabulary that earned its keep — and the names we quietly retired.
Apr 09, 2026