May 12, 2026Engineering
How we built the Nebula color engine
OKLCH derivation, role-keyed tier overrides, and the lookup that replaced 1,200 lines.
Cosmos Engine · Timeline
A chronology of the work
2026
May 09, 2026Motion
Aurora at 90fps: keyframe budgeting
What we cut from the timeline pass and why the playhead now feels true under load.
May 06, 2026Research
Orion-A: the contrast law
A single equation that keeps surface pairs legible across every tier override.
Apr 28, 2026Field
Pulsar & Helix ship the spring releases
Two surface packs, one shared substrate, and what we learned wiring them through.
Apr 19, 2026Engineering
The .lsd package is the public contract
Versioning palettes, tier maps and behaviours as a single transferable artifact.
2025
Dec 18, 2025Motion
A year of Aurora — the timeline shipped
Twelve months from sketch to playhead. The keyframes we kept and the ones we threw away.
Nov 02, 2025Product
Behaviours panel: the visual JS designer
First public look at trigger → action → target wires drawn straight on the canvas.
Jun 30, 2025Studio
First public preview of the Surfaces panel
Auto-derived candidate stacks, per-card configurator, clone-to-custom.