Section B
Selected Works & Commissions
pp. B1 — B6
Technology · Feature
Aurora Dashboard Crosses Million-Event Mark
How a small team built a realtime ops view that doesn't flinch at load.
By the Staff · 12 min read
The dashboard, affectionately referred to inside the company as Aurora, was built over six weeks by a team of three, with front-end work led by Mr. Finch. It handles thousands of events per second, with sub-100ms render budgets and a websocket backbone that refuses to drop.
"We treated performance as a first-class design requirement, not an afterthought," the lead engineer said. — continued on B2
Product
Configurator Makes Buying a 3D Chair Fun, Actually
Three.js, GSAP, and a camera that moves when you breathe.
Filed 2025 · 8 min
A bespoke configurator built on Three.js and GSAP, featuring material swaps, live pricing, and a camera rig that — as one early tester put it — "actually makes me want to buy the chair."
Performance target: a 4.8-second first paint on mid-range mobile. — continued on B3
AI Desk
Writing Companion Streams Ideas in Real Time
A Claude-backed tool that respects the author's flow.
Filed 2025 · 6 min
Built on the Claude API with token streaming, keyboard-first shortcuts, and a careful approach to caching that makes the interface feel instantaneous even on poor connections.
"We resisted every temptation to add a feature," Mr. Finch said. — continued on B3
Business
Multi-Tenant Platform Proves Reliability Over Drama
Worlds quietly scales to thousands of paying seats.
Filed 2024 · 9 min
A full-stack multi-tenant SaaS platform, with row-level security in Postgres, per-tenant theming, Stripe-powered billing, and a CLI that operators still reach for every morning.
"The goal was boring reliability," the founder said, "and that's what we got." — continued on B4
Design
A Design System Every Team Actually Uses
Swiss: tokens, Storybook, and documentation you might read.
Filed 2024 · 7 min
A fully-tokenised design system adopted across six products. Headline numbers: bundle size down 38%, Lighthouse up from 62 to 97, onboarding down from three weeks to three days.
Most remarkable, colleagues noted, is the documentation — "genuinely readable," one engineer said, "which is rarer than it should be." — continued on B5
Arts & Culture
Headless CMS Arrives for Independent Artists
Gallery's image pipeline serves the edge in under 50ms.
Filed 2023 · 5 min
A Payload-based headless CMS with Cloudflare R2 storage, signed URLs, and an image pipeline designed for speed. Used by a small, loyal community of independent artists.
Critics have called it "thoughtful and just opinionated enough." — continued on B6