May 12Engineering
How we built the Nebula color engine
OKLCH derivation, role-keyed tier overrides, and the lookup that replaced 1,200 lines.
Aurora Dispatch · By Month
Stacked by the calendar, not the algorithm
May 20264 posts
May 09Motion
Aurora at 90fps: keyframe budgeting
What we cut from the timeline pass and why the playhead now feels true under load.
May 06Research
Orion-A: the contrast law
A single equation that keeps surface pairs legible across every tier override.
May 02Design
Notes from the Constellation editor
Drag-to-token snapping and the gestures that finally read as physical.
April 20264 posts
Apr 28Field
Pulsar & Helix ship the spring releases
Two surface packs, one shared substrate, and what we learned wiring them through.
Apr 24Product
Behaviours wires that survive refactors
cid-keyed instances, not DOM-keyed — and why that matters when the page rerenders.
Apr 19Engineering
The .lsd package is the public contract
Versioning palettes, tier maps and behaviours as a single transferable artifact.
Apr 09Voice
Naming the cosmos: Nebula, Orion, Vega
The vocabulary that earned its keep — and the names we quietly retired.
March 20263 posts
Mar 28Research
Surface-aware components: a layout-only contract
Components describe layout. Color comes from context. The bridge is one CSS variable.
Mar 21Field
The day the DAW vocabulary clicked
Layers, tracks, beats. Why Aurora reads as a timeline, not a tween editor.
Mar 14Studio
Token-snap drag and the gestures that feel true
Snap to the next token in scale, not raw pixels — a quiet differentiator.