Notes, studies and variations on design, code and the things worth paying attention to. A notebook kept in public.https://welltemperednotebook.page/enhttps://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/the-inner-voices/https://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/the-inner-voices/The signals nobody looks at — focus order, live regions, the alt text — are the ones holding the texture together. A third pass at the counterpoint idea.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesignaccessibilitymusichttps://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/what-the-metronome-teaches/https://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/what-the-metronome-teaches/Practising with a metronome does not teach you to play in time. It teaches you where you were already speeding up, which is a different and more useful thing.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTcraftprocesshttps://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/two-voices/https://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/two-voices/A year of applying the counterpoint idea in practice, and the part I got wrong: independence is not the goal, it is the constraint.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTdesigncraftmusichttps://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/against-the-tidy-changelog/https://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/against-the-tidy-changelog/A changelog that reads as though the work went in a straight line is a changelog that has thrown away the only information worth keeping.Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTcraftwritinghttps://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/counterpoint-for-interfaces/https://welltemperednotebook.page/posts/counterpoint-for-interfaces/Interfaces fail the way bad counterpoint fails: not because any single line is wrong, but because two lines that were fine apart stop being fine together.Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTdesigncraftmusic