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Six months committed.

A publishing schedule, not a landing page promising "coming soon". Every post below has a date, a track, a working title, and a concrete takeaway. Subscribe by starring the repo — every post ships as a git commit to apps/marketing/src/pages/blog/.

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Tracks.

OSS mechanics

How we run Pulse as an open-source business — license design, governance, self-host economics.

IC visibility

Why your best work disappears, and what changes when there's a public trail. Field notes from the people who live with the gap.

Agent-native HR

Building Pulse toward MCP + tool schemas so external agents can ground on HR data safely.

Engineering notes

TanStack Router, Bun workspaces, Astro marketing + React app monorepo, PWA offline, local intent parser.

Schedule.

  1. #01

    May 6, 2026

    Planned
    OSS mechanics

    Why we picked MIT (and not AGPL, BSL, or a source-available license)

    A walk through the alternatives, the failure mode each prevents, and why a fully permissive license is the honest bet for an open-source SaaS that wants to stay sustainable.

  2. #02

    May 20, 2026

    Planned
    IC visibility

    Your best work is buried in a Slack thread from March

    Why the textarea-based performance review fails the people it claims to serve, and what changes when proof of work lives somewhere the IC owns.

  3. #03

    Jun 3, 2026

    Planned
    Engineering notes

    Migrating off TanStack Start: a Vercel-first SPA in 24 hours

    Why we left SSR behind for a vanilla Vite SPA, what broke, what we kept, and the exact vercel.json that ships today.

  4. #04

    Jun 17, 2026

    Planned
    Agent-native HR

    Shipping a read-only MCP server in front of tenant data

    What endpoints to expose first, how to scope permissions per tool, and the one security guarantee you cannot skip.

  5. #05

    Jul 15, 2026

    Planned
    IC visibility

    Three lines a day: replacing the standup with a written feed

    What we learned running Status Log on ourselves for three months — what landed, what we dropped, and the manager-safe recap that finally made async work without breaking trust.

  6. #06

    Aug 5, 2026

    Planned
    Engineering notes

    A 700-line intent parser beats our first LLM call

    The deterministic nlp.ts module behind ⌘J. Six intent kinds, fuzzy matching, confidence scoring, and the benchmarks that convinced us to ship it instead of calling an LLM.

  7. #07

    Aug 19, 2026

    Planned
    Agent-native HR

    Letting agents act on people data — a permission model that doesn't leak

    Write-actions via MCP without broad delegation. Per-tool permission scopes, replayable dry-runs, and an audit surface that holds up to a real security review.

  8. #08

    Sep 2, 2026

    Planned
    OSS mechanics

    Six months of public issues: what the community actually wants

    Every GitHub issue opened in the first six months, clustered by theme, with the three features we'll ship because of them and the two we said no to.

  9. #09

    Oct 7, 2026

    Planned
    Engineering notes

    Self-hosting Pulse on a €25 Hetzner box

    Docker Compose file, step-by-step, runbook for a 50-person team. Benchmarks, backup rota, and the two things you must not skip.

  10. #10

    Oct 21, 2026

    Planned
    Agent-native HR

    From command bar to agent loop: what changes when the user isn't human

    The UX and product implications of a tool surface agents call directly. What breaks, what becomes possible, and the new security failure modes to design against.

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