How should software carry itself around people?

Mechanical Tenderness · September 1, 2026

A typeface for the text it writes, in three registers. Execution detail recedes. Findings sit at reading size. A decision for a person sits behind a rule.

A typeset page in three registers: a small grey log of locker events, two paragraphs at reading size about the Oakland lockers, and a bold question below a rule asking whether to add four lockers in Berkeley at $1,200 a month.

The full paper publishes here.