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lifescientific.dev / a dev journal MMXXVI · vol. I

Notes & tools
from the lab & the field.

From the software team at Life Scientific. Notes from the lab and the field, plus the tools we build along the way.

First edition
2 notes · 1 tool
updated 2026·05·26

Recent writing

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The palette is not a search engine

A command palette and a search box look identical and have opposite goals. The first is a deterministic input device, the second is a relevance engine, and every technical decision in our Cmd+K is downstream of taking that distinction seriously.

engineeringdesignfrontend

The RAM ran out, so we rebuilt the entire stack

Notes on what changes when you stop optimising your stack for one developer at a time, and start optimising for one developer plus four agents working in parallel.

essayagentstooling

Tools

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Effect APIA typed, schema-first HTTP surface for our internal tools, MCP servers, and agents. effect · typescript live All tools →